List of vocab for AP Human Geography exam
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Supranationalism | show 🗑
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show | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs
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show | States in which 2 or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination coexist
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show | The position of anything on Earth's surface which can be described using toponym, site, situation, or mathematical grid
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Diffusion | show 🗑
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show | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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Fundamental geographic question | show 🗑
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Mental Mapping | show 🗑
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Gould & White | show 🗑
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show | The result of the modification of the natural landscape by human activities (first defined by Carl Saeur)
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show | Whittlesey's concept that successive societies leave their cultural imprint on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
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show | Term for the size of an area studied from local to global
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show | The relationship of a map size to the real-world
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Eratosthenes | show 🗑
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Hipparchus | show 🗑
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Humbolt & Ritter | show 🗑
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show | The scientific study of the locations of people and activities across Earth's surface and the reasons for their distribution
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show | The scientific study of where and why human activities are located where they are
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show | Transferring the image of the globe onto a flat sheet of paper
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show | Distortions created by map projections
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show | Map projection formed by placing a cylinder around a globe - Useful for sea travel
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show | Type of map that shows cities, provinces, counties, and countries
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show | Type of map that shows physical features
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show | Type of map that shows differences in elevation, usually using isolines
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show | Type of map that uses various colors to show the variations in the levels of certain characteristics
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Dot Distribution | show 🗑
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show | Gathering of data from satellites for cartographic purposes
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show | Computer systems that process geographic data, usually to make layered maps (thematic layers) showing the correlation between various characteristics
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show | The tiny areas recorded by satellite sensors used in GIS
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Global Positioning Systems (GPS) | show 🗑
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Cultural Ecology | show 🗑
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Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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Possibilism | show 🗑
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Anthropogenic | show 🗑
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Sustainability | show 🗑
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Toponym | show 🗑
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show | The physical characteristics of a place
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Situation | show 🗑
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show | Mathematical or grid location such as formed by latitude and longitude or townships and ranges
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Longlot System | show 🗑
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show | Frequency of a characteristic in a given locale
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Concentration | show 🗑
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Pattern | show 🗑
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show | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct traditions
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show | 3 parts into which cultural regions are divided according to Donald Meinig
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Formal Region | show 🗑
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show | A region in which the characteristic(s) radiates from a node
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Distance Decay | show 🗑
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Friction of Distance | show 🗑
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show | Term for the reduction in time it takes for something to diffuse to a distance place
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show | A perceived region such as "downtown"
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Vernacular Region | show 🗑
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show | Facts and features that are universal
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show | The interdependence of places which occurs through networks in which people, ideas, and goods move between places
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show | Something becoming worldwide in scope
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show | Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come in close contact
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show | Change in a less developed society that results from contact with a more developed society
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Assimilation | show 🗑
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Diffusion | show 🗑
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Hearth | show 🗑
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show | Movement of a characteristic through the movement of people
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show | Permanent relocation diffusion
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Hierarchical Diffusion | show 🗑
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Contagious Diffusion | show 🗑
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show | Diffusion of an underlying principle rather than the intended feature
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Maquiladora | show 🗑
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | show 🗑
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show | The area in North Mexico with a lower population density
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show | Scientific study of population
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Carrying Capacity | show 🗑
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Overpopulation | show 🗑
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Physiological Density | show 🗑
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Agricultural Density | show 🗑
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show | Total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in an area
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show | Total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in an rea
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Natural Increase Rate (NIR) | show 🗑
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show | Average number of children born to a woman in an area
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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) | show 🗑
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show | The number of years it takes the population to double
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Demographic Transition | show 🗑
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show | Formula used to predict how much a population will grow (Population + Births - Deaths + Immigration - Emigration)
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show | Location of the geographic population center of the U.S. today called the centroid
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Population Pyramid (Age/Sex Graph) | show 🗑
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Dependency Ratio | show 🗑
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show | The number of males per 100 females in an area
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Thomas Malthus | show 🗑
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Boserup Hypothesis | show 🗑
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show | China's anti-natalist policy
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show | The change in the principle causes of death over time
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Model "S" Curve | show 🗑
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show | The movement of people from place to place
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Activity Space | show 🗑
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show | Reoccurring mobility
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Seasonal Mobility | show 🗑
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show | Formulated the 11 Laws of Migration
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Emigration | show 🗑
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Push Factors | show 🗑
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show | Migration to a place
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Pull Factors | show 🗑
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Net Migration | show 🗑
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Intraregional Migration | show 🗑
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show | Migration from region to region
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show | Migration from country to country
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show | Zelinsky's explanation of migration patterns that correspond to the stages of demographic transition
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show | The process in which members of a family or a particular group migrate to the same locale
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Eco-Migration | show 🗑
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Okies | show 🗑
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Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS) | show 🗑
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show | 1986 Act of the U.S. congress that set up a procedure for allowing undocumented workers to become citizens and the stricter documentation of workers
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Visa | show 🗑
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Guest Workers | show 🗑
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Brain Drain | show 🗑
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Mariel Boatlift | show 🗑
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show | Name that the Long Expedition gave to the Southern Great Plains in the U.S.
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Rust Belt | show 🗑
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Komsomols | show 🗑
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Urbanization | show 🗑
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show | Interregional migration to the outlying communities around a city
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show | Interregional migration to rural areas
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Step Migration | show 🗑
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Intervening Opportunity | show 🗑
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An Intervening Obstacle | show 🗑
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Colonia | show 🗑
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Tobler's First Law of Geography | show 🗑
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show | A model used to predict spatial interaction, where size (population) is directly related to interaction and distance is inversely related to interaction
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show | William J Reilly's explanation of the fact that larger cities have larger trade areas (retail hinderlands)
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Breaking Point | show 🗑
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show | A well-defined migration channel fro ma specific origin to a particular destination
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United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) | show 🗑
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Eritrea | show 🗑
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights | show 🗑
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show | Highly efficient method of shipping that uses steel boxes to ship goods that are easily transferred from ship to rail to truck
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Four Asian Dragons | show 🗑
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show | Chinese government policy regarding Hong Kong
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Map Aggregation | show 🗑
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Primary Map Data | show 🗑
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Secondary Map Data | show 🗑
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show | Type of map that uses a symbol in varying sizes to show the magnitude of a characteristic
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show | The fusion of two distinctive cultural traits into a unique hybrid trait such as the blending of Islam and Hinduism in the Sikh Faith
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Customs | show 🗑
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show | Man's imprint on the natural landscape
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show | Customs of small homogeneous rural groups that remain unique through relative isolation; varies mostly with place
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show | Customs of a large heterogeneous group that diffuse widely, creating a uniform landscape; varies mostly with time
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TV | show 🗑
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show | The continuous flow and return flow of migrants from a particular place to a particular place
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show | Innovations (or diseases) that are less (or more) accessible to people of certain gender, class, age, or ethnicity
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show | A functional urban area of at least 50,000 in the U.S.
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Scatter Plot | show 🗑
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Language Divergence | show 🗑
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Language Convergence | show 🗑
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show | An inverted language of the twentieth century based on Latin that was intended to become a world language
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Language | show 🗑
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Literary Tradition | show 🗑
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Mandarin Chinese | show 🗑
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show | Language most widely (spatially) spoken
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Lingua Franca | show 🗑
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show | A collection languages related through a common ancestor that existed before recorded history (ex. Indo-European)
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show | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past (ex. West Germanic)
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show | A variation of a language spoken in a particular region or by a particular group (e.g. American Midland South)
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show | Largest language family
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show | Language branch to which English belongs
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Balto-Slavic | show 🗑
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Cyrillic | show 🗑
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Farsi | show 🗑
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Sino-Tibetan | show 🗑
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show | Hungarian language
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Uralic | show 🗑
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Relocation Diffusion (Migration) | show 🗑
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show | Origin of the English Language
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Middle English | show 🗑
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Latin | show 🗑
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Vulgar Latin | show 🗑
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show | Everyday languages spoken by the people in an area
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Proto Indo-European | show 🗑
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Conquests | show 🗑
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Russia/Kazakhstan | show 🗑
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show | Method of diffusion of the indo-European languages according to the Anatolian Hearth Theory
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show | Hearth of the Indo-European languages according to the Anatolian Hearth Theory
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show | The location in Europe where Basque is spoken
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show | A recognized or official language in an area
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show | The official language of the United States
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show | A word-usage boundary
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Creolized Language | show 🗑
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP) | show 🗑
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show | Latin American name for the Spanish spoken in Spain
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Extinct Languages | show 🗑
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Hebrew | show 🗑
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Elizer Ben-Yehuda | show 🗑
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Celtic | show 🗑
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French & Flemish | show 🗑
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show | Languages of Switzerland
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show | Language of Quebec
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show | Simplified form of a language used by non-native speakers
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show | African-American dialect
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show | Diffusion of English into French
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Spanglish | show 🗑
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Fundamentalism | show 🗑
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show | The movement to reestablish Israel in the modern world
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show | Three territories over which the Palestinians have some autonomy
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show | Founder of modern Turkey
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show | Body of water that separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey
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Roman Catholicism | show 🗑
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show | Cluster of a particular group, such as the Poles in Detroit
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Exclave | show 🗑
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Ghetto | show 🗑
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Segregation Index | show 🗑
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Social Distance | show 🗑
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Spatial Convergence | show 🗑
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show | Segregation between two factors (groups)
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Universalizing Religion | show 🗑
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show | A religion which has a mandate to convert others
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Ethnic Religion | show 🗑
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show | Monotheistic religion that developed in Southwest Asia about 3500 years ago
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Christianity | show 🗑
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Islam | show 🗑
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show | A major division within a religion, such as Protestant
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Denomination | show 🗑
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Mormons | show 🗑
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show | Arabic word for peace
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Muslim | show 🗑
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show | Arabic word for God
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show | Five Pillars of Faith
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Ramadan | show 🗑
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show | Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca)
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Sunni, Shiites/Shia | show 🗑
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show | Muslim sect founded in Detroit
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Elijah Muhammad | show 🗑
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show | Founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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Siddhartha Gautama | show 🗑
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"Enlightened One" | show 🗑
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show | Buddha's search for enlightenment
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show | Result of Buddha's Great Renunciation
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Nirvana | show 🗑
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8-Fold Path | show 🗑
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Mahayana | show 🗑
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Theravada | show 🗑
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show | Branch of Buddhism traditionally dominant in Tibet and Mongolia
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Dalai Lama | show 🗑
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show | Two countries in which 99% of Hindus live
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show | Aryan religious texts upon which Hinduism is based
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show | The creator god in Hinduism
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Vishnu | show 🗑
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Siva/Shiva | show 🗑
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Social Order | show 🗑
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show | Birthplace of Confucius
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Li | show 🗑
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show | Founder of Daoism
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show | Means of achieving harmony in society according to Daoism
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Taiwan | show 🗑
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show | Placement of buildings and objects within buildings in patterns that are in harmony with nature - LIterally means "wind-water"
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Shinto | show 🗑
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show | Japanese dynasty that made Shinto the official religion - A political cult developed in which the emperor was seen as divine
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Ethical Monotheism | show 🗑
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Animism | show 🗑
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show | Founder of Christianity
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Bethlehem | show 🗑
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show | First four books of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - About the life and teachings of Jesus
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show | The atonement for Christians' sins
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show | Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Extreme Unction, Matrimony, Holy Orders
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Great Schism | show 🗑
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Eastern Orthodoxy | show 🗑
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Martin Luther | show 🗑
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show | Answer to Martin Luther's burning question
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Sarah | show 🗑
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Hagar | show 🗑
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show | Founder of Islam - Considered to be the last and greatest prophet of God
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Gabriel | show 🗑
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Quran (Koran) | show 🗑
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show | Muhammad's emigration to Yathrib in 622
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Medina | show 🗑
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show | Birthplace of Prince Siddhartha
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Dravidians | show 🗑
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show | Hearth of Christianity
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Temporary Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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show | Christianity's diffusion (type) through contact between believers and non-believers
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show | Christianity's diffusion (type) through leaders requiring their subjects to adopt Christianity
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show | Christianity's diffusion (type) through the migration of believers
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Saudi Arabia | show 🗑
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Conquest & Missionaries | show 🗑
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Asoka | show 🗑
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South Asia | show 🗑
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Sri Lanka | show 🗑
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show | Forced dispersion of the Jews in 70 A.D.
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Bodh Gaya | show 🗑
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show | Birthplace of Muhammad
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show | Housed in the Shrine al-Haram al-Sharif in Makkah - It represents the concept of monotheism
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show | Source of the Ganges River where Siva lives
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Dome of the Rock | show 🗑
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Church of the Holy Sepulcher | show 🗑
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Western Wall | show 🗑
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Natural Events | show 🗑
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show | What universalizing religious holidays are usually based on
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show | Jewish New Years
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show | Jewish Day of Atonement
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Easter | show 🗑
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Gregorian | show 🗑
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show | Type of calendar used by the Eastern Orthodox Church
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show | Type of calendar used in Islam
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show | Muslim public meeting place
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Minarets | show 🗑
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Temples | show 🗑
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show | Buddhist buildings containing relics believed to be part of Buddha's body or clothing
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show | Fundamentalism group that took control of Afghanistan after the Soviet Army withdrew from the country
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show | Fixed social class system in India (historic)
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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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Race | show 🗑
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Racism | show 🗑
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Color | show 🗑
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Discrimination | show 🗑
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show | Race absent from the 2000 Census (because it is not a race)
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show | U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the doctrine of separate but equal
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show | U.S. segregation laws
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Brown vs. Board of Education | show 🗑
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show | Taking advantage of "white flight" by buying property from whites who are fearful of blacks moving into their neighborhoods/future lowering of property values and reselling it to blacks at large profits
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show | Legal segregation policy in South Africa
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Nelson Mandela | show 🗑
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Nationality | show 🗑
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show | Two principle ethnic/religious groups in South Asia
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Mahatma Gandhi | show 🗑
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Kashmir | show 🗑
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Multiethnic State | show 🗑
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Multinational State | show 🗑
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show | Region in Azerbaijan in which the majority of people are Armenian Christians who would rather be part of Armenia
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Sudan | show 🗑
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Somalia | show 🗑
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Lebanon | show 🗑
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show | The three principle ethnic groups in Iraq
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show | Two principle ethnic groups in Sri Lanka
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Camp David Accords | show 🗑
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Ethnic Cleansing | show 🗑
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Tito | show 🗑
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Balkanization | show 🗑
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show | Two rival ethnic groups in Central Africa that have engaged in ethnic cleansing
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show | World's most fragmented state - It also has the highest number of Muslims
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show | Government program in Indonesia that provides incentives for people to move from densely populated islands to less densely populated ones
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Bali | show 🗑
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Malay, Chinese, Indians | show 🗑
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Bumiputera | show 🗑
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Ethnic Islands | show 🗑
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Longevity Gap | show 🗑
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show | A city neighborhood which is predominantly occupied by Latinos
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show | Region caught between stronger, colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress and often fragmented by aggressive rivals - Eastern Europe is an example
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show | That part of the cultural landscape that can be attributed to a particular ethnic group
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Ethnocentrism | show 🗑
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Edge Cities | show 🗑
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show | Development that occurs well beyond the limits of the current urbanized area, usually to take advantage of less expensive land
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Mixed Use Development | show 🗑
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New Urbanism | show 🗑
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Infill Development | show 🗑
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Political Geography | show 🗑
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State | show 🗑
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38th Parallel | show 🗑
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Taiwan | show 🗑
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show | Only large landmass not a part of a sovereign state
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show | Largest state
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show | Smallest UN member
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show | Height of political unity in the ancient world
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Colonialism | show 🗑
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show | Control of an inhabited territory organized by indigenous people
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US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico | show 🗑
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show | State shape in which the distance from the center does not vary significantly, such as Poland
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show | Namibia's state shape
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Access to a Resource, Separation of 2 States | show 🗑
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show | Chile's state shape; long and narrow
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Fragmented | show 🗑
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show | South Africa's state shape
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show | An area between two states that is not completely controlled by either
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Green Line (not a frontier) | show 🗑
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Aozou Strip | show 🗑
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Straight Line | show 🗑
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show | International agreement that sets national offshore claims at 12 miles and the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) at 200 miles
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Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia | show 🗑
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Russian Federation | show 🗑
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show | Independence-minded Russian territory in the northern Caucasus region
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show | System of government in which most power rests with the central government
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Federal | show 🗑
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Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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show | Type of gerrymandering in which a group is broken up so it is ia minority in many districts
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show | Type of gerrymandering in which pockets of a particular group are packed into as few districts as possible
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show | Type of gerrymandering in which pockets of a particular group are linked together
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show | Organization replaced by the UN
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show | Term for the world of the Cold War which pitted NATO against the Warsaw Pact
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show | The formation of alliances of approximately equal military power that tends to prevent conflict
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show | International organization of American states that promotes social, cultural, and economic links
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Organization of African Unity (OAU) | show 🗑
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show | Organization of 48 states that were once a part of the British Empire that promotes economic and cultural cooperation
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show | Economic alliance of communist countries that was disbanded in the 1990s
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | show 🗑
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show | Organization of countries that export large amounts of petroleum - By controlling worldwide supply, it influences prices
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European Union (EU) | show 🗑
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show | Common currency of many EU member countries
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Terrorism | show 🗑
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show | Terrorist group responsible for the attacks in the U.S. on 9/11/2001
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Iraq, Iran, North Korea | show 🗑
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Taliban | show 🗑
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show | The study of the interplay between political relations and the territorial context in which they occur
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show | Geopolitical theory that states that states need to grow or they will die
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show | Geopolitical theory that identifies a political power base in the heart of Eurasia which will eventually dominate the entire world
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Rimland Theory | show 🗑
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show | A core-periphery model of the spatial distribution of economic
power – The core is made up of the strong states and the
periphery is made up of the weak states
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show | Factors that influence the breakup of a state from within
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show | Enclave of a nation into a territory of another state
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Nation-Building | show 🗑
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show | Forced dispersion of the Jews by the Babylonians and later by the Romans in which they were routed from their traditional homeland and forced to live among the other nations of the world
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show | A state's geographic shape which can have a decisive impact on its spatial cohesion and political viability
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Forward Capital | show 🗑
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show | A boundary drawn during the course of development of the cultural landscape
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show | Forcibly drawn boundary across a unified cultural landscape
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show | A boundary that has ceased to function but whose imprints are still evident on the cultural landscape
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show | Conference in which the European powers decided upon the rules for colonizing Africa
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Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) | show 🗑
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show | The largest population cluster of a nation-state
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show | The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the Cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
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show | Person who developed the Multiple Hearths Theory of Agriculture
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show | Purpose of subsistence agriculture
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Sale | show 🗑
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show | Person who developed the mapping system of agricultural regions
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Shifting Cultivation | show 🗑
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show | Type of agriculture practiced in dry climates in less developed regions of the world
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Intensive Subsistence Farming | show 🗑
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Sawah | show 🗑
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show | Type of agriculture practiced in LDCs in which specialty crops are grown by companies owned by MDCs or export to MDCs
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Mixed Crop & livestock | show 🗑
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Milkshed | show 🗑
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Wheat | show 🗑
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Livestock Ranching | show 🗑
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Winter Wheat | show 🗑
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Spring Wheat | show 🗑
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Reaping, Threshing, Cleaning | show 🗑
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show | Type of agriculture practiced in Southern Europe which often includes horticulture
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|
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show | Thesis that states that population growth leads to the development of new farming methods and increased production
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|
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show | Core-periphery model of agriculture that explains the pattern of the distribution of various agricultural activities based on land costs (rent) and transportation costs
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|
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Value of Yield & Transportation Cost | show 🗑
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show | Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimizes pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of pesticides and herbicides
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|
||||
show | The third agricultural revolution in which high-yield seeds were developed and agricultural science and technology was diffused from MDCs to LDCs
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|
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show | Developing crops that can take nitrogen from the air rather than the soil
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|
||||
Japan's Rice Bowl | show 🗑
|
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Yamase | show 🗑
|
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show | World's largest megalopolis
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|
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Luxury Crops | show 🗑
|
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Capital-Intensive Agriculture | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The agricultural system of communist countries in which the government controls production and distribution
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|
||||
show | A measure of how much distance discourages movement between places, based on time, energy, or cost that must be expended
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|
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show | Growing crops on water in limited space
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|
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Debt-for-Nature Swap | show 🗑
|
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Sidewalk Farmer | show 🗑
|
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show | A farmer who lives in an urban area during most of the year, but lives on the farm during planting and harvest times
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|
||||
Development | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The extent to which a society makes effective use of its resources, both human and natural
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|
||||
show | The measure devised in 1990 which is used to compare the relative development of countries and regions
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|
||||
show | Highest possible HDI
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|
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United Nations | show 🗑
|
||||
Economic, Social, Demographic | show 🗑
|
||||
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per Capita | show 🗑
|
||||
Literacy Rates, Education Level | show 🗑
|
||||
Life Expectancy | show 🗑
|
||||
Primary Sector | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Economic sector that includes manufacturing
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|
||||
show | Economic sector that includes the provision of goods and services and information processing
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|
||||
Cars, Phones, TVs | show 🗑
|
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Self-Sufficiency Model | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Approach to economic development that focuses on unique assets and their global trade to generate capital to improve the overall economy
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|
||||
show | Traditional Society, Preconditions for Take-Off, Take-Off, Drive to Maturity, Age of Mass Consumption
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|
||||
Wallerstein's World Systems Model | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Comparison measure calculated using income, literacy, education ,and life expectancy differences in the male and female populations
🗑
|
||||
show | Comparions measure calculated using variations in the economic and political inclusion of the female populations in different areas (first emphasized internationally in the 1990s)
🗑
|
||||
World Trade Organization (WTO) | show 🗑
|
||||
Swidden | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The level of development that can be maintained in a country without depleting resources to the extent that future generations will be unable to achieve a comparable level of development
🗑
|
||||
show | Inventor of the first practical steam engine
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|
||||
Cottage Industry | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Frist industries of the Industrial Revolution
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|
||||
Clustered | show 🗑
|
||||
Special Economic Zones | show 🗑
|
||||
1970s | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Three major trading blocks
🗑
|
||||
show | Theory that predicts where a business will or should be located
🗑
|
||||
show | Explanation of the optimal location of a factory as one that minimizes the costs of the transportation of raw material and finished goods as well as labor
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|
||||
show | Theory that states that competitors will attempt to maximize sales by constraining each other's sales territories by moving closer to one another until they are back-to-back
🗑
|
||||
Footloose Industry | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Industries that are ideally located near their input materials
🗑
|
||||
Just-In-Time (JIT) | show 🗑
|
||||
Land, Labor, Capital | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Zones in many LDCs which attract foreign investment that include easy access to distribution facilities, tax exemptions, and lack strict environmental regulations
🗑
|
||||
show | System of manufacturing that uses assembly lines in which workers perform the same task over and over
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|
||||
Post-Fordist | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Industries that sell primarily outside their regions
🗑
|
||||
Non-Basic Industries | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The effect of adding basic industries creating jobs for both basic and non-basic industries
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|
||||
show | Location of services
🗑
|
||||
Near Customers | show 🗑
|
||||
Consumer, Business, Public | show 🗑
|
||||
Clustered Rural Settlements | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Geographic model that explains the distributions of services and the regular pattern of settlements in many MDCs
🗑
|
||||
Walter Christaller | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Market centers that are centrally located and compete with each other
🗑
|
||||
show | Nodal region surrounding a central place in which the central place provides services
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|
||||
Hexagons | show 🗑
|
||||
Range & Threshold | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Maximum distance people will travel for a service
🗑
|
||||
show | Minimum number of people needed to support a service
🗑
|
||||
High-Order Central Place | show 🗑
|
||||
Low-Order Central Place | show 🗑
|
||||
Market Area Analysis | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The location that will minimize the distance to a service for the largest number of customers - Used in a market area analysis
🗑
|
||||
Rank-Size Rule | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hierarchical pattern of the distribution of cities in which the largest city is more than twice the size of the second largest city
🗑
|
||||
World Cities | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Three Tier 1 World Cities - Major stock-exchanges are located in these cities
🗑
|
||||
Command & Control Centers | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cities that provide relatively unskilled labor and depend on world cities for economic health
🗑
|
||||
Central Business District (CBD) | show 🗑
|
||||
Randstad | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cities along the edge of the Green Heart in the Netherlands
🗑
|
||||
show | The movement of businesses out of the city center as costs rise above the agglomeration benefits
🗑
|
||||
Bid-Rent Theory | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The spreading of residency into the outlying regions of a city
🗑
|
||||
show | Approximate fraction of the world's population that lives in urban areas
🗑
|
||||
show | Principle push factor in urbanization
🗑
|
||||
show | Principle pull factor in urbanization
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|
||||
Social | show 🗑
|
||||
show | A central city in the U.S. of at least 50,000, the county within which the city is located, and the adjacent counties which have a functional connection to the city
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|
||||
Gateway Cities | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cities that have experience population explosions and unplanned growth resulting in pollution ad poverty
🗑
|
||||
Megalopolis | show 🗑
|
||||
Boswash (Core Area of the U.S.) | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Person who identified the U.S. megalopolis, Boswash
🗑
|
||||
show | German megalopolis
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|
||||
show | South African megalopolis
🗑
|
||||
show | City where the three classic models of urban structure were developed
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|
||||
"The Loop" | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sociologist who developed the Concentric Zone Model of Urban Structure
🗑
|
||||
show | Economist who developed the Sector Model of Urban Structure
🗑
|
||||
C.D. Harris & E.L. ullman | show 🗑
|
||||
Census Tracts | show 🗑
|
||||
Social Area Analysis | show 🗑
|
||||
City Center | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Typical suburban dwellings in Europe
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|
||||
Pre-Colonial, Colonial, Independence | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The process in which large houses are subdivided to be rented to low-income people
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|
||||
Redlining | show 🗑
|
||||
Gentrification | show 🗑
|
||||
Annexation | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The concept that land occupancy diminishes as one moves from the core of a city to the periphery
🗑
|
||||
show | Legislation and regulations which limit sprawl and preserve prime agricultural land
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|
||||
Lean Production System | show 🗑
|
||||
Biomass Fuels | show 🗑
|
||||
Fossil Fuels | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Abundant orm of petroleum found in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado
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|
||||
show | Fuel used in nuclear fission
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|
||||
show | Location of the 1986 nuclear accident
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|
||||
show | NIMBY
🗑
|
||||
show | Product (other than electricity) produced by a breeder reactor
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|
||||
Hydrogen | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Waste that exceeds the capacity of the environment to accept or absorb it
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|
||||
show | The threat to the environmental security by human actions such as atmospheric and groundwater pollution, deforestation, oil spills, and ocean dumping
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|
||||
Ecotourism | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The most abundant element in the atmosphere
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|
||||
Global Warming | show 🗑
|
||||
Global Warming & Acid Rain | show 🗑
|
||||
CFCs | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Important function of the ozone layer
🗑
|
||||
Montreal Protocol | show 🗑
|
||||
show | International agreement to limit greenhouse gases
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|
||||
show | Status of the U.S. regarding the Kyoto Protocol
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|
||||
Decrease Discharges, Increase Environmental Capacity | show 🗑
|
||||
PL 480 | show 🗑
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