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Vocab 5
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Elongated State | territory is much longer than its average width, often 6X as long. |
| Fragmented State | composed of 2/ more non-contiguous segments. |
| Compact State | possesses roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory; distance from the geometric center to any point on the boundary exhibits little variance. |
| Industrial Revolution | Social & economic changes in agriculture, commerce & manufacturing. |
| Dispersed Rural Settlement | 1 of main types of settlement pattern used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England & other parts of the world. |
| Greenbelt | extensive area of largely undeveloped or sparsely occupied land associated with community set aside to contain development. |
| Habit | act, behavioral response, practice, or custom established in one's repertoire by frequent repetition of the same act. |
| Ethnic Religion | particular to 1, culturally distinct, group of people. |
| Dialect | Local or regional characteristics of a language |
| Development | process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage; act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining. |
| Gentrification | rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents. |
| Filtering | deleting or delaying negative information or using less harsh words so that events sound more favorable |
| Blockbusting | Rapid change in racial composition of residential blocks in American cities. |
| Gravity Model | used to account for wide variety of flow patterns in human/economic systems. |
| Break-Of-Bulk Point | location along transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another. |
| Edge City | relatively new concentration of business, shopping, & entertainment outside traditional urban area in what had recently been residential suburb or semi-rural community. |
| Extinct Language | may be contrasted w/ dead languages: no longer spoken as main language. |
| Creole Language | stable language that originates seemingly as a pidgin, but was later on adopted as mother tongue. |
| Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) | Synthetic organic compounds first created in the 1950’s and used primarily as refrigerants and as propellants. |
| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | Involves cultivation of small parcels of land through the expenditure of great amounts of labor per acre. |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | collection of comp. hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, etc. |
| Census | periodic and official count of a country’s pop. |
| Environmental Determinism | view that natural environment has numerous influences on human life. |
| International Date Line | Imaginary line through the Pacific Ocean, roughly following 180th meridian where date changes. |
| Concentric Zone Model | structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of 5 concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center. |
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