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| Agricultural Density | show 🗑
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| show | Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a group of people in tradition
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| Acculturation | show 🗑
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| Reference Maps | show 🗑
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| Thematic Maps | show 🗑
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| Isoline Maps | show 🗑
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| show | Show the level of some variable within predefined regions, such as counties, states, or countries
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| show | Use a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in order to depict variation in density in a given area
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| Cartograms | show 🗑
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| Resolution | show 🗑
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| show | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth’s surface
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| show | Depicts a large area (such as the state of Arizona) but with less detail
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| show | Depicts a small area (such as downtown Phoenix) with great detail
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| show | The science of making maps
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| Projection | show 🗑
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| show | The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface has to be a natural feature
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| Site | show 🗑
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| show | The location of a place relative to other places (relative location)
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| show | An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles (longitude)
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| Parallel | show 🗑
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| Time Zones | show 🗑
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| Greenwich Mean Time | show 🗑
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| show | An arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day.
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| Spatial Association | show 🗑
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. (States people can overcome the physical problems/features –
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. Density does not tell you where something is, just strictly numbers
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| Arithmetic Density | show 🗑
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| show | The total number of people divided by all arable land (farmland)
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| show | The total number of farmers (and family) divided by all arable land
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| Concentration | show 🗑
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| show | The spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
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| Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Expansion Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The science of map making
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| show | A name given to a place on earth.
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| show | The relationship to a feature’s size on a map to its actual size on earth.
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other people or places. Example- grunge music.
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| Contagious Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Stimulus Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Fractional Scale | show 🗑
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| Graphic Scale | show 🗑
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| show | The physical characteristic of a place
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| Situation | show 🗑
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| show | Lines of longitude running in the north-south direction ending at the poles
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| show | Lines of latitude parallel to the equator
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| show | Greenwich Mean Time – The time at the prime meridian International Date Line – 180 degrees from Prime Meridian – 24 hours Telling time from longitude – every 15 degrees. From Prime Meridian going west loose 1 hour/15 degrees – east gain 1 hour/15 degree
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| Regions | show 🗑
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| show | A perceptual region – beliefs and cultural identity
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| show | The distribution of one phenomenon that is scientifically related to the location of another phenomenon
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| show | The arrangement of phenomenon across the earth’s surface
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| Globalization of Culture | show 🗑
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| show | Globalization due to business
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| show | Physical environment dictates the social environment
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Demography | show 🗑
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| show | The definition of over population is having too many people and to little resources
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| Carrying Capacity | show 🗑
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| show | The time it takes for a population to double
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| Four most over populated regions/Sparsely populated regions in the world (Over populated) | show 🗑
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| East Asia | show 🗑
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| show | Another one fifth of the world’s population lives in south Asia. South Asia includes
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| Southeast Asia | show 🗑
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| Western Europe | show 🗑
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| show | areas that aren't populated that much
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| show | When an area is dry for farming not many people want to live there. These areas cover about 20% of the earth’s land surface. The largest desert region is the Sahara. Deserts lack sufficient water to grow crops to feed many people.
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| show | Wet lands are lands that receive high levels of precipitation.
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| Cold lands | show 🗑
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| show | population growth
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| show | The number of years needed to double a population.
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| Total fertility rate | show 🗑
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| Infant mortality rate | show 🗑
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| Causes of Population Increase | show 🗑
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| show | The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. Ex- a (CBR) of 20 means that for every 1,000 people in a country, 20 babies are born over a one year period.
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| show | total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. The annual number of deaths per 1,000 population.
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| show | the percentage by which a population grows in a year. To compute you subtract CBR from CDR.
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| show | Natural- means a country’s growth rate excludes migration.
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| show | TFR total fertility rate- the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years (15-49).
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| Mortality | show 🗑
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| show | the annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births.
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| show | the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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| show | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
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| show | The Basics- There are four stages to the demographic transition
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| show | Low Growth
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| show | High Growth
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| Stage 3 | show 🗑
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| Stage 4 | show 🗑
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| Stage 1 | show 🗑
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| Stage 2 | show 🗑
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| Stage 3 | show 🗑
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| show | A country achieves stage 4 when birth and death rates are nearly equal and natural increase is almost zero.
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| Stage 5 | show 🗑
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| show | States that the world will get wiped out by over population, starvation, and disease (mainly the ratio of people to food).
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| Neo-Malthusians | show 🗑
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| Malthus’s Critics | show 🗑
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| show | A complete enumeration of a population.
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| show | The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
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| Crude Death Rate | show 🗑
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| Demographic Transition | show 🗑
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| Demography | show 🗑
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| Dependency Ratio | show 🗑
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| Doubling Time | show 🗑
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| Epidemiologic Transition | show 🗑
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| Epidemiology | show 🗑
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| show | The portion of Earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| Infant Mortality Rate | show 🗑
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| Life Expectancy | show 🗑
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| show | Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more p
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| show | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.
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| show | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
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| Pandemic | show 🗑
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| show | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
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| show | The number of males per 100 females in the population.
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| show | The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.
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| Zero Population Growth | show 🗑
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| show | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location
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| Mobility | show 🗑
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| show | Constant, short term, repetitive movements by an individual
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| show | Migration away from country
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| Immigration | show 🗑
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| Net Migration | show 🗑
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| Counterurbanization | show 🗑
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| Reasons For Migration | show 🗑
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| Push factor | show 🗑
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| Pull factor | show 🗑
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| show | Pull- People emigrate to places with better job opportunities. They will also emigrate because of better natural resources. Metal and coal deposits might attract miners. A brand new industry or store could attract technicians, scientists, engineers, or o
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| Environmental Push and Pull Factors | show 🗑
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| Cultural Push and Pull Factors | show 🗑
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| show | people migrate for especially the lure of freedom. People are attracted to democratic countries that encourage individual choice in education, career, and a place of residence.
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| show | Large-scale emigration by talented people
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| show | The permanent movement from one country to another.
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| show | Permanent movement within a particular country.
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| Internal Migration | show 🗑
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| International Migration | show 🗑
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| Net Migration | show 🗑
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| In-Migration | show 🗑
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| show | leaving a country Countries with net out-migrations include Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Countries with net in-migrations include North America, Europe, and Oceania. Guest Workers
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| Temporary Migration for Work | show 🗑
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| show | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
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| Folk Culture | show 🗑
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| Origin of Folk Cultures | show 🗑
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| Origin of Pop Cultures | show 🗑
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| show | Most of the world turns from folk to pop culture.
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| show | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
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| Diffusion Associated With Pop Culture | show 🗑
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| show | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
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| Language Branch | show 🗑
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| show | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
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| Dialect | show 🗑
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| show | West Germanic invaders from Jutland (Denmark) known as the Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes began populating the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries AD
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| show | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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| show | The world’s most extensively spoken language family by a wide margin Nearly 3 billion people speak an Indo-European language as their first language
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| show | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English
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| Religion | show 🗑
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| Religion Hierarchy | show 🗑
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| show | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location 3 Biggs – Christianity, Islam, Buddhism
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| Christianity | show 🗑
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| Islam | show 🗑
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| show | Origin – NE India/Nepal 370 million adherents Known as Buddhists Mainly in China and SE Asia Foundation based on the Four Noble Truths
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| show | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated 2 Biggs – Hinduism and Judaism
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| show | Origin – India/Pakistan 800 million adherents (3rd largest overall) 97% live in India (80% of India’s pop.) Believe in several gods – Brahma being the main one Follow the Caste System Believe in Karma and Reincarnation
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| show | Origin – Israel 14 million adherents Mainly clustered in Israel and the US Also prevent in former USSR (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania) Have similar roots as Christianity and Islam
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| Ireland | show 🗑
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| show | After the 1973 war, the Palestinians emerged as Israel’s principle opponent. Israelis have no intention of giving up control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and Palestinians have no intention of giving up their claim to it.
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| Religion Versus Communism | show 🗑
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| US Distribution of Ethnicities | show 🗑
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| show | Within a country, clustering of ethnicities can occur on two scales. Ethnic groups may live in particular regions of the country, and they may live in particular neighborhoods within cities.
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| Sharecropper | show 🗑
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| show | When the African American immigrants reached the big cities, they clustered in the one or two neighborhoods where the small numbers who had arrived in the 19th century were already living. These areas became known as ghettos. The ghettos today have been
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| Ethnicity and Race | show 🗑
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| show | The Separate But Equal Doctrine occurred in 1896. It allowed segregation of Blacks, Jews, and Roman Catholics.
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| show | Apartheid is the physical separation of different races into different areas. The white-dominated government of South Africa repealed the apartheid laws in 1991. In 1994, Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa.
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| Nationality | show 🗑
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| show | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality Have by far one dominate ethnicity/nationality – 1 country, 1 ethnicity
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| show | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves Quebec (Province in Canada) – early 1980s strong French Australia Israel/Palestine Native Americans
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| show | state that contains more than one ethnicity Don’t necessarily try to appeal to every ethnicity – sometimes happy, sometimes not
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| Block Busting | show 🗑
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| show | States/countries breaking down through ethnic conflict – constant conflict
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| Political Geography | show 🗑
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| Modern Colonies | show 🗑
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| Compact State | show 🗑
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| show | a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
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| show | a state with a long, narrow shape
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| show | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
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| Perforated State | show 🗑
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| show | invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory
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| show | Physical- natural boundaries (oceans, rivers, mountains)-
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