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Geography Unit 4

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show High-elevation plateau, basin, or valley between even higher mountain ranges, especially in the Andes of South America.  
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show One society or culture group taking land from another.  
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Liberation theology   show
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Subsistence agriculture   show
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show The notion that economic development varies spatially, a central tenet of core-periphery relationships in realms, regions, and lesser geographic entities.  
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show The notion that economic development varies spatially, a central tenet of core-periphery relationships in realms, regions, and lesser geographic entities.  
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show Dominated by unlicensed sellers of homemade goods and services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that takes place beyond the control of government. The complement to a country’s formal sector.  
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show Term meaning “neighborhood” in Spanish. Usually refers to an urban community in a Middle or South American city.  
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show Shantytown on the outskirts or even well within an urban area in Brazil.  
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show Informal term referring to the world’s most heavily populated cities; in this book, the term refers to a metropolis containing a population of greater than 10 million. Example: Tokyo, Mumbai, Los Angeles  
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Dependencia theory   show
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show Territorial embodiment of a successful guerrilla movement. The establishment by antigovernment insurgents of a territorial base in which they exercise full control; thus a state within a state. Ex: Foco model in Bolivia  
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show A country whose institutions have collapsed and in which anarchy prevails. Ex: Somalia  
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Triple frontier   show
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Primate city   show
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Buffer state   show
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Entrepot   show
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Forward capital   show
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show Regional term referring to the fertile savannas of Brazil’s interior Central-West that make it one of the world’s most promising agricultural frontiers. Inadequate transport links to the outside world remain a problem.  
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Elongation   show
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