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APHG Master List

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show The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct culture features.  
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show The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19  
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show The belief that the existence of God can't be proven empirically.  
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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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anocracy   show
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apartheid   show
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show the cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions  
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arithmetic density   show
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assimilation   show
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show someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee  
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show the belief that God does not exist  
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show a country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people  
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autonomous religion   show
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show a process by which as state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities  
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balkanized   show
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blockbusting   show
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show large-scale emigration by talented people  
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show a large and fundamental division within a religion  
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bulk-gaining industry   show
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bulk-reducing industry   show
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carbon capture and storage (CCS)   show
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cartography   show
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caste   show
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census   show
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show the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered  
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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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show a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area  
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central place theory   show
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show An attitude that tends to divide people and hurt a state. Could be differences in religion, ethnicity, etc.  
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centripetal force   show
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chain migration   show
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circular migration   show
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circulation   show
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city-state   show
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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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show agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm  
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compact state   show
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concentric zone model   show
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consumer service   show
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show the use of water that evaporates rather than being returned to nature as a liquid  
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show the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population  
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cosmogony   show
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show manufacturing based in homes rather than in factories, most common prior to the Industrial Revolution  
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show Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries  
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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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show the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil  
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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 (CDR)   show
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cultural ecology   show
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show an approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area  
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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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custom   show
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show a country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office  
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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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dependency ratio   show
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desertification   show
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developed country   show
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developing country   show
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show a language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed  
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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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show a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.  
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show the number of working-age people (15-64) divided by the number of persons 65+  
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elongated state   show
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emigration   show
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show a count of something. Ex. counting people for a census  
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show an approach that argues that the physical environment causes human activities and the success/failure of a society.  
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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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show a religion that is concentrated mostly in one part of the world. They tend to not have missionaries or religious holidays for founders, but instead celebrate occurrences to their people or natural phenomena  
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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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show a suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population. Ex. China Town or Little Italy  
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ethnocentrism   show
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show the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process (like a domino effect)  
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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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female labor force participation rate   show
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folk culture   show
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show an area that has a substantial amount of low-income residents and has poor access to a grocery store, defined in most cases as further than 1 mile.  
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show physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.  
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forced migration   show
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show a form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly  
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show Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country  
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show an area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics  
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show an energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago.  
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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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fundamentalism   show
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gender inequality index (GII)   show
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show an indicator constructed by the UN to measure the gender gap in the level of achievement in terms of income, education, and life expectancy  
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genetically modified organism (GMO)   show
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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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gerrymandering   show
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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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show a model which holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location. It is inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.  
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show rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers  
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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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show the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country  
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guest worker   show
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habit   show
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hearth   show
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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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show when a company buys other companies that are in the same industry to corner the market on the product.  
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show the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers  
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show an indicator constructed by the UN to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy  
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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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show a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of  
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inequality-adjusted human development index (IHDI)   show
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infant mortality rate (IMR)   show
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informal settlement   show
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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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show permanent movement within a particular country  
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show someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border. Ex. A Syrian leaves his home city and stays with a relative in the countryside of Syria.  
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show permanent movement from one country to another  
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show permanent movement from one region of a country to another  
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show an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration  
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intraregional migration   show
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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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landlocked state   show
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show a system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.  
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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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language group   show
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show the average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions.  
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lingua franca   show
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literacy rate   show
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show a language that is written as well as spoken  
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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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show a map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by a mapping service  
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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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medical revolution   show
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megalopolis   show
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metropolitan statistical area (MSA)   show
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show an urbanized area of 10k-50k people, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties tied to the city  
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microstate   show
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show a permanent move to a new location  
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show the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied  
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show an individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion  
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mixed crop and livestock farming   show
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show all types of movements between locations (may/may not be permanent)  
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monotheism   show
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multiethnic state   show
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show a state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities  
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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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nationalism   show
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show identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country  
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nation-state   show
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natural increase rate (NIR)   show
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show the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration  
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show the use of water that is returned to nature as a liquid  
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show pollution that originates from a large, diffuse area (as in you can't point to a definite spot...it's too spread out)  
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nonrenewable resource   show
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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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outsourcing   show
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overpopulation   show
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paddy   show
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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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show a journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes  
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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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popular culture   show
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population pyramid   show
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possibilism   show
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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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show the amount of a resource in deposits not yet identified but thought to exist.  
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primary sector   show
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primate city   show
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show a pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.  
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prime agricultural land   show
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prorupted state   show
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show the amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits  
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show government-owned housing rented to low-income individuals with rents set at 30% of the tenant's income  
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show a service offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.  
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show a factor that induces people to move to a new location  
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purchasing power parity (PPP)   show
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push factor   show
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quota   show
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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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show a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism  
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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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show someone who is force to migrate from his/her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinions.  
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relocation diffusion   show
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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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show something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans  
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rush hour   show
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sanitary landfill   show
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sawah   show
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scale   show
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secondary sector   show
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show a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD)  
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self-determination   show
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show the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.. Ex. an old building being used over the course of 200 years for various things like shops, projects, factory work, etc.  
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sex ratio   show
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shifting cultivation   show
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show the physical character of a place  
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show the location of a place relative to another place  
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show another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris  
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smart growth   show
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sovereignty   show
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space   show
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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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sustainability   show
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sustainable development   show
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swidden   show
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show the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature  
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taboo   show
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terrorism   show
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show the portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment  
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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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transhumance   show
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transnational corporation   show
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show a person who enters a country without proper documents to do so  
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undernourishment   show
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show the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy  
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unitary state   show
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universalizing religion   show
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urban cluster   show
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show an increase in the percentage of and the number of people living in urban settlements  
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show in the US, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants  
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show an area that people believe exits as part of their cultural identity  
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vertical integration   show
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show permanent movement undertaken by choice  
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show a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.  
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show a law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.  
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superimposed boundary   show
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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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