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| The total number of people divided by the total land area | show 🗑
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| show | Distribution
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| show | GIS
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| ___________ in cars help you find your destination by pinpointing your exact location on the earth through satellites then explaining the best way to get from that place to the next. | show 🗑
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| The Land Ordinance of 1785 split much of the Western United States into square parcels of land to easily sell these plots to settlers, the geometric arrangements shows a ____________ of settlement that is still visible today. | show 🗑
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| The total number of people divided by land that is able to be farmed. | show 🗑
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| Satellites used in _________ help to track and monitor changes that occur on the surface of the earth, such as weather phenomenon. | show 🗑
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| show | Sequent Occupance
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| Describing a location by using the physical features of that area. | show 🗑
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| Describing a location by using its proximity to other locations. | show 🗑
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| show | Space Time Compression
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| show | Toponym
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| show | Clustered
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| show | Distance Decay
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| show | Friction of Distance
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| The process of converting the 3D earth onto a flat map. | show 🗑
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| The physical impression people leave on the earth such as buildings, bridges, monuments, etc. | show 🗑
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| Describing a places location using longitude and latitude measurements | show 🗑
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| Measured by the ease at which it is to reach other places from another. | show 🗑
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| Science of map making | show 🗑
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| Overcoming their cultural and physical barriers, Iraq and Iran have increased their ____________ through new active trading. | show 🗑
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| show | Contagious Diffusion
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| show | Environmental Determinism
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| The spread of an idea or feature from one place to another where it becomes more and more popular overtime, like a snowball rolling down a hill. | show 🗑
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| show | Formal Region
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| show | Functional Region
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| show | Globalization
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| show | Hearth
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| Books that are apart of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club spread through __________ since Oprah reads the book first, then others read it because of her respected recommendation. | show 🗑
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| Airports are a great example of a _________ because no one airport is the beginning, each has its own set places it serves, connecting to the bigger system of travel. | show 🗑
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| show | Possibilism
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| show | Relative location
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| The movement of something from one place to another through the physical migration of people. | show 🗑
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| The relationship between an object on the earth and its representation on a map. | show 🗑
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| The gap between objects | show 🗑
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| show | Stimulus Diffusion
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| The South of the US is an example of a ___________ because it is based on a cultural identity that does not have a clear demarcation | show 🗑
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| This is the population level that can be supported, given the quantity of food, | show 🗑
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| The 65 and older _________, or age group, is considered the old-age dependency group. | show 🗑
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| show | Demography
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| show | Demographic Momentum
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| show | Demographic Transition Model
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| The number of people who are too old or too young to work compared to people in their productive years. (0-14, 65+) | show 🗑
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| show | Diffusion of Fertility Control
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| show | Demographic Equation
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| show | Ecumene
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| Despite an improvement in health in 2nd stage of the __________, Cholera still impacts people within this stage, raising death rates, because of problems with access to clean water. | show 🗑
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| show | Fertility
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| The annual number of deaths of infants, less than one year of age, compared with total live births. | show 🗑
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| Was one of the first to argue that the world’s rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population. | show 🗑
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| show | Medical Revolution
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| show | Mortality
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| The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; it is expressed as number of birth in a year to every 1000 people alive in the society. (2 words) | show 🗑
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| This individual would say our population is growing exponentially faster than many of our resources, fuel, clean air, etc. | show 🗑
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| show | Overpopulation
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| map that displays the size of countries based on population not land area | show 🗑
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| show | Population Explosion
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| predicts the future population of an area or the world. Helps predict future problems with population such as overpopulation or under population of a certain race or ethnicity. | show 🗑
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| population displayed by age and gender on a bar graph. Shape is determined primarily by crude birth rate. Shows age distribution and sex ratio. | show 🗑
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| government policies that encourage child birth such as tax breaks and flexible work hours | show 🗑
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| the percentage by which a population grows in a year. (CBR-CDR ) /10 Exluding Migration | show 🗑
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| number of males per hundred females in the population. Men have higher death rates but also higher birth rates. | show 🗑
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| In India the ____________ is usually high, similar to the US, for upper caste people in the cities, but in rural areas people have little possessions and access to many resources. | show 🗑
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| Slash and Burn agriculture is considered to have the most __________ for rainforest environments because it provides time for forests to grow back before a new plot of land is cut and burned for planting. | show 🗑
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| show | Underpopulation
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| Places that have __________ are considered to have reached replacement fertility because they are only having enough children to replace the parent generation, stabilizing their growth rate. | show 🗑
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| Going to the store and back home is an example of ___________mobility. | show 🗑
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| show | Absorption
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| show | Dispersion
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| show | Chain Migration
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| Type of migration where people leave because of war, natural disaster, and government. | show 🗑
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| Immigrants usually from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa who receive permits to fill low skilled jobs in Europe. Workers can live permanently in Europe but they and their children, regardless of where they were born, are not given citizenship | show 🗑
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| limitations placed on the maximum number of people who can enter a country | show 🗑
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| Permanent movement within a particular country. | show 🗑
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| show | Intervening Opportunity
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| show | Interregional Migration
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| Permanent movement from suburbs and rural area to the urban city area. | show 🗑
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| A person who is forced from their home due to political, ethnic, and or religious persecution and feel they cannot safely return | show 🗑
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| show | Push-Pull Factors
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| When you adapt only 1 or a few customs of a new place that will be advantageous while keeping the rest of your own | show 🗑
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| show | Assimilation
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| show | Cultural Core/Periphery Pattern
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| The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition. | show 🗑
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| If a group of people find cell phones to be particularly helpful in maintaining their beliefs, it is likely the _________ will be extremely swift. | show 🗑
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| show | Maladaptive Diffusion
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| show | Religion
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| Many Hindu’s still embrace ________ by believing in many gods, but they will join a devotional cult; which centers daily worship on the main god of his/her choice. | show 🗑
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| show | Ethnic Religion
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| Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life. | show 🗑
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| The third of the world’s major universalizing religions. It has 365 million adherents especially in China and Southeast Asia. | show 🗑
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| show | Cargo Cult Pilgramage
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| show | Christianity
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| show | Creole Language
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| show | Mormonism
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| show | Confucianism
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| show | Fundamentalism
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| customs often practiced by small, rural, and homogenous (uniform) peoples. | show 🗑
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| The Ganges River in India has become a sacred place for _________, the largest ethnic religion in the world. | show 🗑
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| show | Reincarnation
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| show | Islam
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| Regional boundaries between word-usage. | show 🗑
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| A Language surrounded by other languages that share no ancestry with that language | show 🗑
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| The ______ is the 5th pillar of Islam which says that once in a Muslim’s life, he or she must take a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. | show 🗑
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| it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles. | show 🗑
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| show | Jainism
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| show | Judaism
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| Nigeria consistently struggles of violence as a result of its strict ________, with Muslims dominating the North and Christians in control of the South. | show 🗑
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| show | Landscapes of the Dead
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| Languages created and used for trade | show 🗑
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| A global religion that appeals to all people, wherever they may live in the world, There are three religions that practice this they are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. To proselytize is to try to convert another person to your religion. | show 🗑
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| Certain habits shared by large, heterogeneous (mixed) societies despite personal differences; originate in the Core Areas | show 🗑
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| The ________ have always been dependent upon the beliefs of a particular religion. For example, Buddhists create Pagodas, not as houses of communal worship like Christianity, but as places to store and commemorate the relics of Buddha. | show 🗑
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| This is where most religions are born. | show 🗑
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| show | Sacred Space
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| show | Secularism
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| show | Shamanism
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| show | Shintoism
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| show | Sikhism
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| show | Taboo
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| show | Irredentism
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| After about 200 miles from any county, the ocean becomes a part of the _____________ where no person or state has complete control. | show 🗑
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| What do you call a state that lies between 2 more powerful and hostile states? | show 🗑
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| show | Balkanization
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| In Texas legislature was accused of __________ when they attempted to split the Hispanic vote along the Southern Boarder in order to ensure two Republican districts in this area. | show 🗑
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| show | Superimposed Boundaries
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| The miles of fencing, border control officers, and patrols are a part of the exclusionary _____________ of the Mexico-US border. | show 🗑
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| show | Centrifugal
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| During a brief period during the 19th century Texas was an independent country, and then is was incorporated into the United States. This process is known as _____________. | show 🗑
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| show | Exclusive Economic Zone
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| the different voting districts that make up local, state, and national regions. | show 🗑
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| The ____________ of India was violent despite Gandhi’s devotion to Civil Disobedience. Although the violence was mostly committed by the British, Indians also committed violent acts against the royal police until gaining independence after WWII. | show 🗑
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| show | Centripetal
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| What term refers to studying how geography, history, and social sciences affect international politics? | show 🗑
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| After independence, many Eastern European countries went through the process of ___________, decentralizing their governments, to separate themselves from the Soviet Union. | show 🗑
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| The __________ marked what part of Africa European countries could colonize to end decades of scrambling to control scattered pieces of the continent. | show 🗑
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| Of the ethnicities in the US only the various Native American tribes are considered a _________ because they all have similar goals and legal recognition within the government. | show 🗑
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| show | Multi-national state
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| show | Confederation
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| This is the only continent with no permanent residents. | show 🗑
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| show | Supranationalism
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| a country which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory | show 🗑
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| show | Federal
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| show | Unitary
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| What term refers to the region between Saudi Arabia and its neighbors where neither country has complete control of the area? | show 🗑
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| The process by which a country settles in sparsely populated parts of the world, establishing political and economic control. | show 🗑
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| a political unit with defined boundaries where the majority of the people share common cultural traits and sense of identity. | show 🗑
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| The US’s Bread Basket is in its ___________, far away from either of its coastlines. | show 🗑
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| show | city-state
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| show | Forward Capital
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| the influence of Communists, then more would follow. Was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War. | show 🗑
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| show | Antecedent Boundaries
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| it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over the black majority. | show 🗑
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| show | Ethnicity
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| state that contains multiple ethnicities which all contribute to form one nationality | show 🗑
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| Created after populated and the cultural landscape is developed, often coincide with religions or other cultural distinctions (2 terms) | show 🗑
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| show | Shatter Belt
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| show | Agrarian
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| show | Agribusiness
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| show | Milk Shed
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| The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain. | show 🗑
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| show | Animal Domestication
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| show | Aquaculture
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| During the __________ farmers began playing with new technologies like injecting hormones or different types of genes into plants and animals to produce fatter, larger, products, or crops that were resistant to pests like flies, etc. | show 🗑
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| show | Desertification
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| show | Commercial Agriculture
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| The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. Takes up large areas of land but keeps land usable for future generations | show 🗑
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| LDCs are no longer responsible for paying off their financial responsibilities if they preserve the natural landscape | show 🗑
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| Harvesting twice a year from the same land | show 🗑
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| Type of agriculture that requires a large amount of land but usually little labor such as grain and livestock farming in mid-latitude regions | show 🗑
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| a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market | show 🗑
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| Around 8000 B.C. when humans first domesticated plants and animals | show 🗑
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| series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc. | show 🗑
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| show | Green Revolution
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| A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasibly yield from a parcel of land. Popular in East, South, and Southeast Asia | show 🗑
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| show | Intertillage
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| commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area. Practiced is semi-arid or arid land, where vegetation is too sparse or the soil to too poor to support crops. | show 🗑
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| show | Market Gardening
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| show | Mediterranean Agriculture
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| show | Nomadic Herding/pastoralism
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| show | Second Agricultural Revolution
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| ____________ is mostly found in rainforest regions. People slash and burn parts of the forest for agriculture, sustaining the rainforest for future generations | show 🗑
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| Individuals who live in urban areas a great distance from their land and drive to the country to care for their crops and livestock. | show 🗑
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| social trap that involves a conflict over resources between interests and the common good. | show 🗑
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| show | Transhumance
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| show | Truck Farming
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| show | Von Thunen
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| Found in the North Eastern part of the US, this is a type of market gardening where people choose to grow expensive crops like asparagus, strawberries, and mushrooms. This is often undertaken by farmers who are no longer dairy farming in this area. | show 🗑
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| farmers use practices that are sensitive to the environment such as using less heavy energy draining equipment and chemicals, as well integrating crops and livestock onto one farm to utilize the benefits of natural fertilizers and food for the animals | show 🗑
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| Form of commercial farming found predominantly in the LDCs where European or North American Companies own the large farms that are worked by local labor that live on the farm during planting and harvesting. | show 🗑
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| show | Balanced Growth or Self-Sufficiency Model of Development
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| Countries where their people have well over their daily allotted amounts of these are most likely MDCs, less than are LDCs. | show 🗑
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| show | Core Periphery Model
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| show | Cultural Convergence
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| According to the _____________The ratio of the number of people under 15 or over 64 to the number in the labor force is usually higher in LDCs. | show 🗑
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| show | Development
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| show | Energy Consumption
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| Investment in the economies of LDCs by transnational corporations based in MDCs | show 🗑
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| Costa Rica is a leader in _____________, where visitors will stay is rainforest cabanas rather than five star resorts in busy urban areas. | show 🗑
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| show | Gross Domestic Product
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| show | Fair Trade
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| show | Human Development Index
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| show | Gender Related Development Index
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| show | Gender Empowerment Measure
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| ______________ relates to the idea that MDCs continue to control the economic fate of LDCs by funding their development either through the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, or Transnational Corporations, keeping wages low and development limited. | show 🗑
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| show | International Trade Model Of Development
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| To better compare MDCs to LDCs in terms of income, this measure takes into account price differences between countries. | show 🗑
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| Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to limit and abolish barriers to trade between these three countries. Has lead to industrial growth in Mexico. | show 🗑
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| show | Technology Transfer
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| According to __________, price and demand for land increases the closer you get to the main city. | show 🗑
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| show | Fordism
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| show | Agglomeration Economies
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| Linear theory of development that countries go through a common pattern of structural change once they decide to trade internationally to increase revenue. | show 🗑
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| show | Aluminum Industry
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| According to the ___________, industry’s primary concerns are the cost of transportation. | show 🗑
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| show | Bulk-Reducing Industry
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| show | Bulk-gaining Industry
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| States people cannot be forces to join a union as a condition of employment | show 🗑
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| Factories that are located in Mexico, near the US border to take advantage of the cheap labor in Mexico and a close proximity to US markets | show 🗑
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| show | Vertical Integration
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| show | Outsourcing
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| A process by which real estate agents convince white owners to sell their houses is | show 🗑
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| show | Census Tract
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| A synonym of a functional region is a ___________. | show 🗑
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| What term is used for the trading centers of old times which often became the world cities of the ancient world? | show 🗑
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| show | Rank-size Rule
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| The ________ shows the patter of different types of urban activities, maintaining that different types of services and living conditions move outward in a circular pattern from the downtown area. | show 🗑
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| The ________ explains how far people will travel and the type of people necessary to sustain a type of service. It is constructed using interlocking and overlapping hexagons. | show 🗑
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| show | Urban Renewel
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| show | Employment Structure
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| show | Gentrification
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| Stands for central business district, location of skyscrapers and companies (would always be the center of the 3 urban models, many people commute, few actually live there) | show 🗑
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| Also known as “Back Office Jobs” these are businesses, or parts of businesses devoted to calling customers or potential customers. | show 🗑
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| show | Centralization’
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| show | Deindustrialization
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| show | Edge City
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| show | Ghetto
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| Area of urban land that contains more than 50,000 people, a central city, and the counties where most of the people work in and/or visit the central city for many services. A group of connected MSAs creates a Megalopolis. | show 🗑
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| show | Periodic Market
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| show | Primate City Rule
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| show | Range
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| show | Squatter Settlement
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| show | Threshold
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| show | Counterurbanization
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| show | Basic Industry
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| The Kraal of Africa use a ___________ where their dwellings surround communal grazing land for their animals, which ensures the security of their livestock from intruders. | show 🗑
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| Atlanta is an example of a _____________ because, although it is not as large or important to the world as New York, it is the regional headquarters for many corporations in the Southeast. | show 🗑
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| show | Dispersed Rural Settlement
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| show | European City Model
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| The ____________ is distinct from the world because it contains a spine of services that extend out from a central market, which usually contains a large cathedral. | show 🗑
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| show | Multiple Nuclei Model
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| Walmart is an example of a _____________ because its consumers live within the community and it does not create large scale growth. In contrast, Walmart's move into areas that are already experiencing growth. | show 🗑
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| show | Sector Model
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| Detroit is the __________________ for the auto industry, specializing in the teriary side of the industry such as research, management, and development of new technologies. | show 🗑
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| show | World City
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