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Acculturation   show
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show The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19  
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agnosticism   show
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show Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations  
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agricultural density   show
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agricultural revolution   show
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animism   show
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annexation   show
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show a country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types  
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show laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.  
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show the cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions  
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arithmetic density   show
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show the process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant group.  
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asylum seeker   show
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atheism   show
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autocracy   show
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autonomous religion   show
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balkanization   show
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balkanized   show
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show when real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into that neighborhood  
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brain drain   show
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show a large and fundamental division within a religion  
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show an industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs  
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show an industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a greater volume than the inputs  
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show the process of capture CO2 waste, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere (underground)  
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show the science of making maps  
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show the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned to religious law  
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census   show
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central business district (CBD)   show
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show an urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-government unit known as a municipality  
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central place   show
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show the distribution of services where settlements serve as centers of market areas for services. Larger settlements are fewer and farther apart and provide services for those willing to travel.  
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centrifugal force   show
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centripetal force   show
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show migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there  
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show the temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment  
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circulation   show
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show a sovereign state comprising a city ands its immediate hinterland  
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show a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other with fields surrounding the settlement.  
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colonialism   show
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combined statistical area (CSA)   show
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commercial agriculture   show
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show a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly (a shape with no tail. more boxy than other shape states)  
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concentric zone model   show
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consumer service   show
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consumptive water usage   show
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contagious diffusion   show
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cosmogony   show
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cottage industry   show
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counterurbanization   show
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show a language that results from mixing a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.  
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crop rotation   show
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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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show the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people in the society  
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cultural ecology   show
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cultural landscape   show
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show the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition  
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show the frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing it.  
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democracy   show
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demographic transition   show
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show the scientific study of population characteristics  
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show a division of a branch that unites a number of local religious congregations into a single legal and administrative body  
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show the number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force  
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show degradation (worsening) of land, especially in semi-arid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting  
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developed country   show
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developing country   show
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developing language   show
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dialect   show
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dietary energy consumption   show
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diffusion   show
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show a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages  
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show the diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin  
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show harvesting twice a year from the same field  
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doubling time   show
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ecumene   show
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edge city   show
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show the number of working-age people (15-64) divided by the number of persons 65+  
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show a state with a long, narrow shape.  
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emigration   show
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enumeration   show
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environmental determinism   show
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epidemiologic transition   show
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show the branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population.  
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show a policy designed by one ethnic/religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the people of another ethnic/religious group from an area.  
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show a place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in a surrounding area. For example, a large group of Kurds grouped together in a Eastern European region.  
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ethnic religion   show
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show Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth  
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ethnoburb   show
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show The belief that one's ethnicity is superior to another's.  
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expansion diffusion   show
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show a language that is no longer used.  
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show an alternative to international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers, focusing primarily on products exported from developing countries to developed countries.  
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federal state   show
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show the percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home  
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folk culture   show
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food desert   show
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food security   show
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show permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors  
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Fordist production   show
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foreign direct investment (FDI)   show
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show an area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics  
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fossil fuel   show
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fragmented state   show
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frontier   show
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functional/nodal region   show
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show literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion. Typically these are too strict and refuse to see any other way than their own. Ex. Extremist groups like the Taliban, etc.  
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gender inequality index (GII)   show
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gender-related development index (GDI)   show
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show a living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology  
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show the mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence  
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gentrification   show
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show the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power  
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ghetto   show
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show actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope  
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gravity model   show
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green revolution   show
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show the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that leaves and enters the country.  
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gross national income (GNI)   show
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show a term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search for higher paying work.  
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habit   show
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show the region from which innovative ideas spread and originate  
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hierarchical diffusion   show
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show the area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services  
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horizontal integration   show
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show the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers  
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human development index (HDI)   show
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immigration   show
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show people who are native to a land. Ex. Native Americans  
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industrial revolution   show
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show A modification of the HDI to account for inequality  
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infant mortality rate (IMR)   show
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show an area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. AKA Shantytowns  
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show a language used in education, work, mass media, and government  
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show a form of subsistence agriculture characteristic of Asia's major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land  
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internal migration   show
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internally displaced person (IDP)   show
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show permanent movement from one country to another  
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interregional migration   show
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intervening obstacle   show
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show permanent movement within one region of a country  
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show a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate  
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show a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family  
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show shipment of parts and materials to arrive at a factory before they are needed.  
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labor-intensive industry   show
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show a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea  
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language   show
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language branch   show
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show a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history (the trunk of the tree)  
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show a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin and are very similar in grammar and vocabulary (the small branches and leaves of the language tree)  
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life expectancy   show
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lingua franca   show
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show the percentage of a country's people who can read and write  
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literary tradition   show
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show a symbol that represents a word rather than a sound  
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show 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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maquiladora   show
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mashup   show
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show the annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management  
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show medical technology from the US and Europe that has diffused to poorer countries in the world so they can live longer, healthier lives  
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show a continuous urban complex. This means a chain of cities that are so big they start to blend into one long, metropolitan area. Example boswash (Boston thru Washington dc)  
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metropolitan statistical area (MSA)   show
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micropolitan statistical area (mSA)   show
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show a state (country) that encompasses a very small land area. Ex. Vatican City  
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migration   show
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show the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied  
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missionary   show
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show commercial farming characterized by integration of crops and livestock; most of the crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans.  
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mobility   show
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monotheism   show
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multiethnic state   show
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multinational state   show
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show a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities  
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show loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality  
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show identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country  
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show a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity  
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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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net migration   show
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show the use of water that is returned to nature as a liquid  
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nonpoint source pollution   show
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show something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans  
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show the language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents  
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show a decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers (sending work to other countries because it's cheaper...)  
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show a situation in which 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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show the Malay word for wet rice used to describe a flooded field used for rice farming.  
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show disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. Ex. COVID, Spanish flu, or Bubonic Plague  
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passive solar energy systems   show
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show a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals  
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show a state that completely surrounds another one. Ex. South Africa  
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show a model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.  
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physiological density   show
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show a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two languages.  
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pilgrimage   show
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point source pollution   show
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show the belief in and worship of multiple gods  
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show culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.  
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show a bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex  
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show the theory that the physical environment may set limits on what people can do, but people have the ability to adapt and prosper. They see what is POSSIBLE....  
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show adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks  
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potential reserve   show
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show the portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth, generally through agriculture.  
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show a city that is the largest settlement in a country and has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement  
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primate city rule   show
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show the most productive farmland  
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show an otherwise compact state with a large, projecting extension (it has a tail)  
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show the amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits  
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public housing   show
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public service   show
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pull factor   show
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show the amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in another country.  
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push factor   show
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show in reference to migration, a law that places a maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.  
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race   show
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show the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race  
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racist   show
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show the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service  
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show a pattern of settlements in a country that the ?th largest settlement is 1/?th of the largest settlement. Ex. The 5th largest settlement would be 1/5th the size of the largest.  
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recycling   show
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show a process by which financial institutions draw red colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within those lines.  
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refugee   show
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show the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another  
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remanufacturing   show
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show the transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated  
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show the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods  
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renewable resource   show
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rush hour   show
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show a place to deposit solid waste, where a layer of earth is bulldozed over garbage each day to reduce emissions of gases and odors from the decaying trash, to minimize fires, and to discourage vermin.  
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show a flooded field for growing rice. Aka a paddy.  
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scale   show
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secondary sector   show
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sector model   show
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self-determination   show
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sequent occupance   show
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sex ratio   show
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show a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.  
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show the physical character of a place  
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situation   show
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slash and burn agriculture   show
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show legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland  
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show ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states  
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show the physical gap or interval between two objects  
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space time compression   show
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spatial association   show
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sprawl   show
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stimulus diffusion   show
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subsistence agriculture   show
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show a residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city  
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show the use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future  
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show development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs  
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show a patch of land cleared for planting through slash and burning  
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show the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature  
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show a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom  
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terrorism   show
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tertiary sector   show
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show the minimum number of people needed to support a service  
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show the name given to a portion of Earth's surface  
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show the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years  
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show the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures  
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transnational corporation   show
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unauthorized immigrant   show
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undernourishment   show
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uneven development   show
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unitary state   show
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show a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location  
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show in the US, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants  
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urbanization   show
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urbanized area   show
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vernacular/perceptual region   show
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vertical integration   show
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voluntary migration   show
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zero population growth (ZPG)   show
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zoning ordinance   show
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show National borders imposed by a foreign entity. Ex. Most countries in Africa have borders created by Europeans.  
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show Changes that seek to destroy a country from within making the country worse than it was before.  
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MDC stands for....   show
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LDC stands for....   show
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Carrying Capacity   show
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