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Geoterms
geoterms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A condition in which countries have strong economic ties and depend on each other for resources technology trade and investment | Economic Independence |
| The flow of goods and services across national borders with little government control | Free Trade |
| The development of a global or world wide society in which people money information good shows fairly freely across national borders | Globalization |
| A large company that has operations in more than one country | Multinational Corporation |
| Were people live in a country whether crowded together in cities or spread across the countryside | Populational Distribution |
| The population of a country divided by its arable land area | Psychological Population Density |
| The population of a country divided by its total land area | Arithmetic Population Density |
| Land suitable for growing crops | Arable Land |
| Weight of the atmosphere pressing down on any point of the surface of air. Air sinks and high pressure areas and few clouds form air rises and low pressure areas to form class that produce rain | Atmospheric Pressure |
| No no win summer monsoon winds in South Asia usually bring rain to that region | Monsoon |
| The precipitation that occurs when moist air rises up to the side of a mountain as the air rises it cools down and releases most of its moisture as rain or snow | Orographic effect |
| A dry area on the downwind side of a mountain | Rain Shadow |
| The of time it takes for a population to double | Doubling Time |
| A severe shortage of food that results in widespread hunger | Famine |
| Rate of natural increase The annual rate of population growth this percentage is calculated by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate it does not include people moving into or out of a country | Rate of natural increase |
| A condition in which the population of a country does not grow but remains stable this condition comes about when the birth rate plus immigration equals the death rate plus immigration | Zero Population Growth |