Chapter 4
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| show | An area of spatial change where the peripheries of two adjacent realms or regions join; marked by a gradual shift (rather than a sharp break) in the characteristics that distinguish these neighboring geographic entities from one another.
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| show | A form of spatial analysis that integrates computer hardware, mapping software, and such specialized tools as models and algorithms. A versatile technique that is constantly being expanded in its applications (e.g., digital terrain mapping)
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| show | A representation of a unit of terrain obtained from remote sensing imagery.
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| show | The half of the globe containing the greatest amount of land surface, centered on western Europe.
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| show | An independent political entity consisting of a single city with (and sometimes without) an immediate hinterland.
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| show | term encompassing all the citizens of a state. now tend to refer to a group of tightly knit people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within very few states.
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| show | The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm. This language family is also the most widely dispersed globally (Fig. G-8), and about half of humankind speaks one of its languages.
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| show | Exists when two regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products, can specifically satisfy each other’s demands.
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| show | The capacity to move a good from one place to another at a bearable cost; the ease with which a commodity may be transported.
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| show | Forces that unite and bind a country together—such as a strong national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith.
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| show | The 19 countries (as of mid-2016) whose official currency is the euro.
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| show | people are free to cross boundaries w/o border checks. do not fully participate: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland, and Romania. 4 non-EU countries do participate: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein. Another non-participant is the UK, (2016)
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| show | Rhône-Alpes (France), Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Catalonia (Spain), and Lombardy (Italy). Each is a high-technology-driven region marked by exceptional industrial vitality and economic success not only within Europe but on the global scene as well.
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| show | Legally protected residency status; usually granted by a host country to immigrants fleeing political oppression in their former homeland.
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| show | A sovereign state that contains a minuscule land area and population. They do not have the attributes of “complete” states, but are on the map as tiny yet independent entities nonetheless.
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| show | The internal locational attributes of an urban center, including its local spatial organization and physical setting.
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| show | The external locational attributes of an urban center; its relative location or regional position with reference to other non-local places.
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| show | interior state wholly surrounded by land. W/o coasts,country is disadvantaged in terms of accessibility to international trade routes, and in the scramble for possession of areas of the continental shelf and control of the exclusive economic zone beyond.
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| show | A place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, and transshipped; a break-of-bulk point.
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| show | A policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a state aimed at a community of its nationals living in a neighboring state.
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