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Checked Vocab III
page 509, column I
Question | Answer |
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city-state | a sovereign state comprising of a city and its immediate hinterland |
colonialism | attempt by one country to establish settlements and its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory |
colony | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign nation rather than completely independent |
compact state | a state whose center is not of significant distance from any boundary line |
concentration | the spread of something over a given area |
connections | relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
contagious diffusion | the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
cosmogony | a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe |
council of government | a cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States |
counterurbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in MDCs |
creole or creolized language | a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language and the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
crude birth rate (CBR) | the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
crude death rate (CDR) | the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
cultural ecology | geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships |
cultural landscape | fashioning of a natural (physical) landscape by a cultural group |
culture | the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitutes a group of people's distinct tradition |