List of vocab for AP Human Geography exam
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| show | The portion of the world's land surface that is permanently settled by human beings
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| show | A venture involving 3 or more national states - political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives
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| Devolution | show 🗑
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| Centripetal Force | show 🗑
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| show | A force that divides people
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| show | A group of people united by a common culture
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| show | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
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| show | States in which 2 or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination coexist
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| Location | show 🗑
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| show | 4 Ways of Identifying Location
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| Place | show 🗑
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| show | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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| show | Why or Where?
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| show | The process whereby we think spatially, producing mental images of space which allows us to navigate and to communicate about the relative position of things in space
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| show | Authors of mental maps
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Sequent Occupancy | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | The relationship of a map size to the real-world
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| show | First person to describe location using a mathematical grid
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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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| Human Geography | show 🗑
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| show | The art and science of map-making
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| Map Projection | show 🗑
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| Relative Size, Shape, Distance, & Direction | show 🗑
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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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| Topographic Map | show 🗑
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| Relief Map | show 🗑
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| Chloropeth Map | show 🗑
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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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| show | Navigation systems using satellites
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| show | The interaction of a culture and its natural environment
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| show | An approach to understanding the interaction of people and the physical environment which rejects environmental determinism in favor of a mutli-cause rationale for social development
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| Anthropogenic | show 🗑
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| show | Restraint in the use of natural resources to ensure enough resources reamin for future generations
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| Toponym | show 🗑
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| show | The physical characteristics of a place
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| show | The relative location of a place
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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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| show | Geometric arrangement of a characteristic in a given locale
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| Culture | show 🗑
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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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| show | The increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance
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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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| Idiographic | show 🗑
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| show | Facts and features that are universal
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| Spatial Interaction | show 🗑
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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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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| show | Rapid widespread diffusion
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| Stimulus Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Factory owned by non-Mexican countries operating in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and proximity to U.S. markets
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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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| show | The inability of the resources and economic system in an area to meet the needs of the population
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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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| Crude Death Rate (CDR) | show 🗑
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| show | Percentage by which a population grows in a year
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| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | show 🗑
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| Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) | show 🗑
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| Doubling Time | show 🗑
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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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| show | The number of people in the workforce compared to the number outside the workforce
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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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| Circulation Mobility | show 🗑
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| Seasonal Mobility | show 🗑
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| Ravenstein | show 🗑
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| Emigration | show 🗑
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| Push Factors | show 🗑
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| Immigration | show 🗑
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| Pull Factors | show 🗑
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| Net Migration | show 🗑
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| show | Migration within the same region
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| show | Migration from region to region
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| International Migration | show 🗑
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| Migration Transition | show 🗑
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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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| show | Type of migration in which people move away from environmental disasters
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| Okies | show 🗑
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| Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS) | show 🗑
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| 1986 Immigration Reform & Control Act | show 🗑
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| show | Document that grants entry permission to foreign citizens
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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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| show | Temporary labor forces, usually made up of students, in the USSR
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| show | Interregional migration to cities
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| show | Interregional migration to the outlying communities around a city
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| Counter-Urbanization | show 🗑
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| Step Migration | show 🗑
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| show | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of places farther away
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| show | The restriction of migration from Eastern Europe during the Cold War is an example of:
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| show | Mexican squatter settlement
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| show | "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant thing."
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| Gravity Model | show 🗑
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| Law of Retail Gravitation | show 🗑
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| Breaking Point | show 🗑
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| Migration Stream | show 🗑
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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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| Containerized Shipping | show 🗑
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| Four Asian Dragons | show 🗑
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| 1 Country, 2 Systems | show 🗑
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| show | The process of determining the size of the units to be investigated in GIS (counties, provinces...)
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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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| Syncretism | show 🗑
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| Customs | show 🗑
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Folk Culture | show 🗑
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| Popular Culture | show 🗑
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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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| Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) | show 🗑
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| show | A graph showing the correlation between two variables
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| Language Divergence | show 🗑
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| Language Convergence | show 🗑
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| Esperanto | show 🗑
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| show | The communication system of a group of people
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| Literary Tradition | show 🗑
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| show | Language spoken by the largest number of people
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| show | Language most widely (spatially) spoken
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| Lingua Franca | show 🗑
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| Language Family | show 🗑
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| Language Group | show 🗑
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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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| Germanic | show 🗑
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| Balto-Slavic | show 🗑
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| Cyrillic | show 🗑
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| show | Iranian language
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| show | Second largest language family
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| Magyar | show 🗑
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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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| show | The blending of Old English and French
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| show | Base language of the Romance languages
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| Vulgar Latin | show 🗑
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| Vernacular Languages | show 🗑
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| show | Theoretical ancient language that became the Indo-European languages
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| show | Method of diffusion of Indo-European languages according to the Kurgan Hearth Theory
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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 | 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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| show | The standard form of English spoken in London by upper-class Britons and at Cambridge and Oxford
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| show | Latin American name for the Spanish spoken in Spain
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| show | Languages no longer in daily usage
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| Hebrew | show 🗑
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| show | Author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary
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| Celtic | show 🗑
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| French & Flemish | show 🗑
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| German, French, Italian, Romansh | show 🗑
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| French | show 🗑
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| show | Simplified form of a language used by non-native speakers
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| Ebonics | show 🗑
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| Franglais | show 🗑
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| show | Diffusion of English into Spanish
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| show | Revivalism of basic beliefs and the strict following of those beliefs
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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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| show | Predominant religion in Ireland
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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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| show | A number between 0 and 1 showing the degree of separation between two groups (lack of interaction)
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| show | The likelihood that two groups will interact
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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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| show | Largest religion
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| Islam | show 🗑
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| Branch | show 🗑
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| Denomination | show 🗑
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| show | A breakaway group from a religion such as the Branch Davidians
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| Baptist | show 🗑
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| show | Member sof the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints
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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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| Faith, Prayer, Giving, Fasting, Pilgrimage | show 🗑
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| Ramadan | show 🗑
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| show | Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca)
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| show | Muslim sect founded in Detroit
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| show | Early leader of the Nation of Islam who advocated the establishment of a separate autonomous nation within the U.S.
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| show | Founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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| show | The Buddha Prince
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| "Enlightened One" | show 🗑
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| show | Buddha's search for enlightenment
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| 4 Noble Truths | show 🗑
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| show | State beyond suffering in Buddhism
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| 8-Fold Path | show 🗑
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| show | Branch of Buddhism dominant in China, Japan, and Korea; its name means "big raft" - followers emphasize Buddha's compassion
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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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| India & Nepal | show 🗑
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| Vedas | show 🗑
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| Brahma | show 🗑
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| show | The preserver god in Hinduism
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| show | The destroyer god in Hinduism (not seen as evil)
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| Social Order | show 🗑
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| Lu Province in China | show 🗑
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| show | Correct behavior (good citizenship) in Confucianism
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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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| Feng Shui | show 🗑
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| show | Ethnic religion of Japan
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| Meiji | show 🗑
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| show | Jewish belief in only one god which emphasized proper conduct
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| show | Top two countries for Jewish populations
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| Animism | show 🗑
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| Jesus | show 🗑
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| Bethlehem | show 🗑
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| Gospels | show 🗑
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| Jesus' Death | show 🗑
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| Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church | show 🗑
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| show | Event that split the Catholic Church in 1054
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| Eastern Orthodoxy | show 🗑
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| show | Leader of the Protestant Reformation
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| show | Answer to Martin Luther's burning question
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| show | Abraham's first wife and the mother of the Jewish people
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| show | Abraham's second wife and the mother of the Muslim people
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| Muhammad | show 🗑
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| show | Angel Muhammad had visions of
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| show | Holy book of Islam
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| Hijra | show 🗑
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| Medina | show 🗑
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| Lumbini (Nepal) | show 🗑
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| show | Indigenous Indians
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| Israel | show 🗑
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| show | Christianity's diffuse (type) through missionaries
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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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| Permanent Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Hearth of Islam
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| show | Means of the diffusion of Islam
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| Asoka | show 🗑
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| show | Hearth of Buddhism
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| show | Only part of South Asia where Buddhism is still a dominant religion
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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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| Black Stone | show 🗑
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| Mount Kailas | show 🗑
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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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| Events in the Life of the Founder | show 🗑
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| Rosh Hashanah | show 🗑
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| Yom Kippur | show 🗑
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| show | Christian celebration of Jesus' resurrection
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| Gregorian | show 🗑
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| Julian | show 🗑
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| show | Type of calendar used in Islam
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| Mosque | show 🗑
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| show | Muslim prayer towers
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| show | Hindu shrines to particular gods
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| show | Buddhist buildings containing relics believed to be part of Buddha's body or clothing
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| Taliban | show 🗑
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| Caste System | 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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| show | Identity with a group who share a common biological ancestor
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| show | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities
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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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| Jim Crow Laws | show 🗑
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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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| show | One's identification with a group of people who share legal attachment and allegiance to a particular country
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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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| show | A state with two or more ethnic groups which have a tradition of self-determination, such as the U.K.
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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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| show | African country in which more than two million people have died in the recent civil war between Muslims and non-Muslims
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| Somalia | show 🗑
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| show | Country in the Middle East that has experienced ethnic conflict as the proportions of various groups have changed - It is mostly controlled by Syria
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| show | The three principle ethnic groups in Iraq
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| Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamils (Hindus) | show 🗑
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| Camp David Accords | show 🗑
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| Ethnic Cleansing | show 🗑
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| show | Former communist dictator of Yugoslavia
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| show | The breakup of a state into various smaller states based on ethnic identity
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| Hutus & Tutsis | show 🗑
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| show | World's most fragmented state - It also has the highest number of Muslims
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| Transmigration Program | show 🗑
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| show | The greater average life expectancy of women compared to men
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| show | A city neighborhood which is predominantly occupied by Latinos
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| show | Outlying development nodes that provide employment and the provision of goods and services so that residents no longer have to commute to the city center
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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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| Infill Development | show 🗑
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| show | The study of the formal regions organized by governments
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| State | show 🗑
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| show | Boundary between North and south Korea
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| show | Home of the Nationalist Chinese
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| Antarctica | show 🗑
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| Russian Federation | show 🗑
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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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| show | Control of an unorganized territory
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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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| Compact | show 🗑
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| show | Namibia's state shape
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| show | Two purposes of proruptions
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| Elongated | show 🗑
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| show | Indonesia's state shape
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| Perforated | show 🗑
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| show | An area between two states that is not completely controlled by either
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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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| show | Baltic Countries
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| show | Largest multinational state
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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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| show | System of government in which most power rests with the national and provincial governments
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| Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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| Wasted Vote | show 🗑
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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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| Stacked Vote | show 🗑
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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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| Balance of Power | show 🗑
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| show | International organization of American states that promotes social, cultural, and economic links
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| show | Organization of African states that works to eliminate minority rule
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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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| Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) | show 🗑
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| show | Free trade agreement between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada
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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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| show | Economic unity of many European countries
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| Euro | show 🗑
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| show | The use of violence against non-military targets to intimidate states into changing policies
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| Al-Qaeda | show 🗑
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| Iraq, Iran, North Korea | show 🗑
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| Taliban | show 🗑
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| Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| show | Geopolitical theory that states that states need to grow or they will die
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| Heartland Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Geopolitical theory that identifies a political power base on the coastal fringes of Eurasia which will eventually dominate the entire world
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| World Systems Theory | show 🗑
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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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| show | Use of armed forces in the aftermath of a conflict to underpin an enduring transition to democracy
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| Diaspora | show 🗑
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| Territorial Morphology | show 🗑
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| show | A capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory, usually near an international border - It confirms the state's determination to maintain its presence in the region
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| Subsequent Boundary | show 🗑
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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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| 1884 Conference of Berlin | show 🗑
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| Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) | show 🗑
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| Core Area | show 🗑
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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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| show | Purpose of commercial agriculture
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| Derwent Whittlessey | show 🗑
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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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| show | Type of agriculture that often includes rice and production in less developed regions
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| show | Proper name for a rice "paddy"
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| Plantations | show 🗑
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| Mixed Crop & livestock | show 🗑
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| show | The market area for fresh milk
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| show | #1 export crop
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| Livestock Ranching | show 🗑
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| show | Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
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| show | Wheat that is planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
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| show | Three steps in harvesting wheat
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| Mediterranean | show 🗑
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| Boserup Thesis | show 🗑
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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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| Value of Yield & Transportation Cost | show 🗑
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| Sustainable Agriculture | show 🗑
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| Green Revolution | show 🗑
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| The Holy Grail of Agricultural Science | show 🗑
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| show | Japan's Tohoku region (in the north)
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| Yamase | show 🗑
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| Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka | show 🗑
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| Luxury Crops | show 🗑
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| Capital-Intensive Agriculture | show 🗑
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| Planned Agricultural Economy | show 🗑
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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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| show | Growing crops on water in limited space
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| Debt-for-Nature Swap | show 🗑
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| Sidewalk Farmer | show 🗑
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| Suitcase Farmer | show 🗑
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| Development | show 🗑
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| Development | show 🗑
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| Human Development Index (HDI) | show 🗑
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| show | Highest possible HDI
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| United Nations | show 🗑
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| Economic, Social, Demographic | show 🗑
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| show | Economic factor used to calculate HDI
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| show | Social factors used to calculate HDI
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| Life Expectancy | show 🗑
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| Primary Sector | show 🗑
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| Secondary Sector | show 🗑
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| Tertiary Sector | show 🗑
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| Cars, Phones, TVs | show 🗑
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| show | Approach to economic development that makes investment across all sectors of the economy and sets barriers to international trade
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| 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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| show | Core-periphery model of the distribution of economically strong countries and economically dependent countries
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| show | Comparison measure calculated using income, literacy, education ,and life expectancy differences in the male and female populations
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| Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) | show 🗑
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| World Trade Organization (WTO) | show 🗑
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| show | Patch cleared for crops in slash and burn agriculture
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| Sustainable Development | show 🗑
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| James Watt | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Manufacturing in stages that took place in people's homes
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|
||||
| show | Frist industries of the Industrial Revolution
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|
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| Clustered | show 🗑
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| show | Areas in China where foreign investment is allowed
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|
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| show | Decade that stagnant demand became an issue in the global economy
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|
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| show | Three major trading blocks
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|
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| Location Theory | show 🗑
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||||
| 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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| (Hotelling's) Locational Interdependence Theory | show 🗑
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| Footloose Industry | show 🗑
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||||
| Bulk-Reducing Industries | show 🗑
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||||
| Just-In-Time (JIT) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Economic Site Factors
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| Export-Processing Zones | show 🗑
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| Fordist | show 🗑
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||||
| show | System of manufacturing in which workers are given a variety of tasks to perform
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||||
| show | Industries that sell primarily outside their regions
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|
||||
| show | Industries that sell primarily within their regions
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|
||||
| Regional Multiplier | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Location of services
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|
||||
| Near Customers | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Three types of services
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|
||||
| show | Village surrounded by fields (where most people still live today)
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|
||||
| Central Place Theory | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Geographer who developed Central Place Theory
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|
||||
| Central Places | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Nodal region surrounding a central place in which the central place provides services
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|
||||
| show | Shape used in Central Place Theory to show market areas
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|
||||
| show | Two factors used to determine the extent of a market
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| Range | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Minimum number of people needed to support a service
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|
||||
| show | A central place with a high threshold and a long range
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||||
| Low-Order Central Place | show 🗑
|
||||
| Market Area Analysis | show 🗑
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| Optimal Location | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| show | Cities that are centers of the flow of information and capital
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|
||||
| show | Three Tier 1 World Cities - Major stock-exchanges are located in these cities
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|
||||
| show | Cities that are headquarters of large corporations
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|
||||
| Dependent Centers | show 🗑
|
||||
| Central Business District (CBD) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Dutch megalopolis which encloses an open space called the Green Heart
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|
||||
| Dutch Edge Cities (not the same as an edge city) | show 🗑
|
||||
| Deglomeration | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Theory that explains one pattern of urban land-use and that businesses are willing to pay the highest rents in the CBD and less and less toward the periphery
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|
||||
| Suburban Sprawl | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Approximate fraction of the world's population that lives in urban areas
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|
||||
| show | Principle push factor in urbanization
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|
||||
| show | Principle pull factor in urbanization
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|
||||
| show | Type of factors that Louis Wirth used to define an urban area
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| Megalopolis | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The region from Boston to Washingotn, D.C. in which 1/4 of the U.S. population lives on 2% of the land area
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|
||||
| show | Person who identified the U.S. megalopolis, Boswash
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|
||||
| Ruhr Valley | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | South African megalopolis
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|
||||
| 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
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|
||||
| show | Economist who developed the Sector Model of Urban Structure
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|
||||
| C.D. Harris & E.L. ullman | show 🗑
|
||||
| Census Tracts | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Comparison of characteristics such as income, education, and ethnicity in urban areas, often using GIS
🗑
|
||||
| City Center | show 🗑
|
||||
| High-Rise Apartments | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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 🗑
|
||||
| show | The process of including new areas within a city
🗑
|
||||
| Density Gradient | show 🗑
|
||||
| Smart Growth | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Another name for the JIT "pull" manufacturing system
🗑
|
||||
| show | Fuels such as wood, plant material, and animal waste
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|
||||
| Fossil Fuels | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Abundant orm of petroleum found in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado
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|
||||
| Uranium | show 🗑
|
||||
| Chernobyl, Ukraine | show 🗑
|
||||
| Not In My Backyard | show 🗑
|
||||
| Plutonium | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Fuel used in nuclear fusion
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|
||||
| 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 🗑
|
||||
| Nitrogen (78%) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The result of manmade pollution (CO2) in the lower level of the atmosphere causing an overall increase in temperatures
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|
||||
| Global Warming & Acid Rain | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Human generated substance that damages the ozone layer
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|
||||
| show | Important function of the ozone layer
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|
||||
| Montreal Protocol | show 🗑
|
||||
| Kyoto Protocol | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Status of the U.S. regarding the Kyoto Protocol
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||||
| Decrease Discharges, Increase Environmental Capacity | show 🗑
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||||
| show | U.S. program that helps LDCs import food
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