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Unit 1 Vocab Part 5
AP Human Geography Unit 1 Vocabulary Part 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope |
| Transnational Corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface. |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. |
| Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area. |
| Poststructuralist geography | The study of space as the product of ideologies or value systems of ruling elites. |
| Humanistic Geography | The study of different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings. |
| Behavioral Geography | The study of the psychological basis for individual human actions in space. |
| Uneven development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. |
| Assimilation | The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant group. |
| Acculturation | The process of changes in culture that result form the meeting of two groups each of which retains distinct culture features. |
| Syncretism | The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature. |
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