Hodge class/ social studies class twu
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| Aryan | show 🗑
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| Atmosphere | show 🗑
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| show | New name for the western Pacific Rim where a significant regional realignment is
now taking place. Includes rapidly-developing countries and parts of countries and parts if
countries lining the Pacific from Japan's Hokkaido in the north to New Zealand
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| Autocratic | show 🗑
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| show | The fragmentation of a region into smaller, often hostile political units.
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| show | Term meaning "neighborhood" in Spanish. Usually refers to an urban community in a
Middle or South American city; also applied to low-income, inner-city concentrations of
Hispanics in such southwestern U.S. cities as Los Angeles.
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| show | - A set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries. Asia,Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan were parts of a buffer zone between British and Russian-Chinese imperial spheres. Thailand was a buffer state between British and French colonial dom
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| Cartel | show 🗑
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| show | The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns.
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| Caste system | show 🗑
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| show | Pronounced kee. A low-lying small island usually composed of coral and sand. Often part
of an island chain such as the Florida Keys or the Bahamas archipelago.
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| show | Personal qualities of certain leaders that enable them to capture and hold the
popular imagination to secure the allegiance and even the devotion of the masses.
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| show | the long-term conditions (over at least 30 years) of aggregate weather over a region,
summarized by averages and measures of variability; a synthesis of the succession of weather events we have learned to expect at any given location.
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| show | A political framework wherein a (more powerful) central government represents the various entities (like states/provinces) within a nation-state. These share common interests,
such as defense, foreign affairs, and the like. The various smaller Entities
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| show | Crescent-shaped zone of productive lands extending from the southeastern
Mediterranean coast through Lebanon and Syria to the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia (in
Iraq). Once more fertile than today, this is one of the world's great source areas of ag
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| show | the political dominance of a country (or even a region) by another country. The
former Soviet Union's postwar grip on Eastern Europe, which lasted from 1945-1990, was a
classic example.
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| High seas | show 🗑
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| Immigrant | show 🗑
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| Imperialism | show 🗑
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| Isthmus | show 🗑
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| show | Contrasting places in close proximity to one another.
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| show | Lines of latitude are aligned east-west across the globe, from 0° latitude at the
equator to 90° north and south latitude at the poles. Areas of low latitude, therefore, lie near the equator in the tropics; high latitudes are those in the north polar (Ar
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| Delta | show 🗑
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| Plate tectonics | show 🗑
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| show | The idea that migration flows are simultaneously stimulated by conditions
in the source area, which tend to drive people away, and by the perceived attractiveness of the destination.
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| show | Vertical difference between the highest and lowest elevations within a particular area.
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| show | Representation of areal-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or
generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance; indicated on a map
as bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement
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| Sharecropping | show 🗑
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| Shifting agriculture | show 🗑
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| State | show 🗑
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| Steppe | show 🗑
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| Subsistence | show 🗑
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| Terracing | show 🗑
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| Theocracy | show 🗑
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| Time-space convergence | show 🗑
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| Transculturation | show 🗑
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| show | A seismic (earthquake-generated) sea wave that can attain gigantic proportions arid
cause coastal devastation.
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| show | the entire built up, non-rural area and its population including
the most recently constructed suburban appendages. Provides a better picture of the dimensions
and population of such an area than the delimited municipality (central city) that forms it
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| show | when precipitation falls on soil, some of the water is drawn downward
through pores in the soil and rock under force of gravity Below the surface it reaches a
level where it can go no further then it joins water already saturated the rock completely.
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| Windward | show 🗑
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| show | importance to geographers that means, literally, to be in. contact with, adjoining, or adjacent. Sometimes we hear the continental (conterminous) United State minus Alaska referred to as contiguous. Alaska is not contiguous to these "lower 48" states Beca
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| Continental drift | show 🗑
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| show | the process of spreading and adoption of cultural element, from ~its place of
origin across a wider area
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| show | A deciduous tree loses its leaves at the beginning of winter or the start of the
season.
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| show | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.@
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| show | Strictly speaking, this refers to study of the many interrelationships between all forms of life and the natural environments in which they have evolved and continues to develop.@
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| The study of ecosystems | show 🗑
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| show | The habitable portions of the earth's surface where permanent human settlements
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| Emigrant | show 🗑
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| show | a combination of gradational forces that shape the earth’s surface landforms, running water, wind action, and the force of moving Ice combine to war away soil and rock. Human activities often speed erosional processes. Such as through the destruction of n
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| Escarpment | show 🗑
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| Estuary | show 🗑
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| European Union | show 🗑
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| EU cont | show 🗑
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| Leeward | show 🗑
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| show | Map lines at angular distance (0° to 180°) east or west as measured from the prime
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| show | root of this word is the Latin for mixed; it means a person of mixed white and
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| show | A change in residence intended to be permanent, See also forced, internal
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| Monsoon | show 🗑
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| show | occurs in the hot summer months, which produce onshore winds that bring large amounts of rainfall. (The air-pressure differential over land and sea is the triggering mechanism.) Monsoons make their greatest regional impact in the coastal and near-coastal
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| show | Legally a term encompassing all the citizens of a state (ex: Americans), it also has
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| show | Most definitions now tend to refer to a group of tightly-knit people
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| Natural resource | show 🗑
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| show | by international agreement, the nautical mile-- the standard measure at sea is,
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| Oasis | show 🗑
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| Oasis cont | show 🗑
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| Occidental | show 🗑
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| Oriental | show 🗑
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| show | Narrow, steep-sided, elongated, and inundated costal valley deepened by glacier ice that
has since melted away, leaving the sea to penetrate. (Most associated with Sweden & Finland)
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| show | The interdisciplinary study of population especially birth rates and death rates,growth patterns longevity migration and related characteristics.
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| show | The successful recent development of higher yield,fast-growing varieties
of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries. This led to increased production per
unit area and a temporary narrowing of the gap between populations.
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| show | The total value of all goods and services produced in
country during a given year.
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| Monotheism | show 🗑
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| show | A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.@
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| show | far-flung group of countries and parts of countries extending clockwise on the
map from New Zealand to Chile sharing the following criteria 1 they face the Pacific
2 they evince relatively high levels of economic development, industrialization, and
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| Pandemic | show 🗑
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| show | A vast, singular landmass consisting of most of the areas of the present continents
including the America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica which existed until near the
end of the Mesozoic era when plate divergence and continental drift broke
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| Selva | show 🗑
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| Per capita | show 🗑
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| Pilgrimage | show 🗑
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| Savanna | show 🗑
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| show | a comparatively narrow, finger-like stretch of land extending from the main landmass into the sea. Ex: Florida and Korea
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| Peon (peon) | show 🗑
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