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| The total number of people divided by the total land area | show 🗑
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| The cell phone was developed in the United States, but its mass appeal has caused it to _________ world-wide, where many families in less developed nations have never had a house phone but they have purchased a cell phone | show 🗑
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| show | Distribution
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| show | GIS
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| show | GPS
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| show | Pattern
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| show | Physiological Density
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| show | Remote Sensing
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| Mexico City is a great example of ___________ because the modern skyscrapers of today are built over top of Aztec Ruins. | show 🗑
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| show | Site
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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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| The name given to a place on the Earth. | show 🗑
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| show | Clustered
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| When objects are found far away from each other. | show 🗑
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| Phenomenon that explains how the farther a person gets from the hearth of their culture the less likely they are to stay in touch with its beliefs. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Cultural Landscape
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| show | Absolute Location
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| show | Accessibility
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| show | Cartography
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| show | Connectivity
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| YouTube videos often spread through ___________ since they can go from 1 hit to millions within days. | show 🗑
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| show | Environmental Determinism
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| show | Expansion Diffusion
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| The United States of America is considered a ___________ because everyone lives within set boundaries demarking it from other areas. | show 🗑
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| The Sun New's ___________ is the grand strand because the closer you get to Charleston, the more likely people will read the Charleston Gazette instead. | show 🗑
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| The process by which something local becomes a global phenomenon. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Networks
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| show | Possibilism
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| The ____________ of my house is 1 mile East of North Myrtle Beach High School. | show 🗑
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| show | Relocation Diffusion
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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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| As a result of ___________, the same monotheistic God spread into the Islamic faith, but other aspects of Judaism and Christianity were not adopted. | show 🗑
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| show | Vernacular Region
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| This is the population level that can be supported, given the quantity of food, | show 🗑
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| show | Cohort
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| Scientific study of population characteristics | show 🗑
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| India’s population has continued to grow, despite policies which encourage women to have less children, because their large youth population is entering child bearing years, representing the concept of __________. | show 🗑
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| 5 Stages of population growth that go from Low Growth to Negative Growth and also shows the change from an LDC to an MDC in terms of population growth. | show 🗑
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| show | Dependency Ratio
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| Shows the spread of birth control methods around the world. | show 🗑
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| The formula that calculates population change. The formula finds the increase (or decrease) in a population. The formula is found by subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births plus or minus net migration. | show 🗑
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| The proportion of earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement. This is important because it tells how much of the land has been built upon and how much land is left for us to build on. | show 🗑
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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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| average number of children a woman will have during her child bearing years (15-49) | show 🗑
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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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| show | Thomas Malthus
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| show | Medical Revolution
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| There are two useful ways to measure ______; infant mortality rate and life expectancy. The IMR reflect a country’s health care system and life expectancy measures the average number of years a baby can expect to live. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Neo-Malthusian
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| relationship between the number of people on Earth, and the availability of resources. Only considered overpopulated with a population has grown passed available resources | show 🗑
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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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| show | Natural Increase Rate
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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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| show | Circulation
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| show | Absorption
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| Net-out Migration | show 🗑
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| The Dakotas have a large population of Lutheran Christians because one group moved from Germany in the late 1800’s and then wrote home, encouraging others to take advantage of the free land and opportunities, expressing the concept of ___________. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Internal Migration
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| show | Intervening Opportunity
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| Permanent movement from one region of the country to another. | show 🗑
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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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| Factors that induce people to leave old residence and move to new locations. | show 🗑
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| show | Acculturation
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| show | Assimilation
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| Several local restaurants in Nicaragua have closed because they could not compete with the McDonalds and other American restaurants in the area, representing the __________. | show 🗑
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| show | Culture
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| show | Innovation Adaptation
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| show | Maladaptive Diffusion
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| the faithfulness to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual nature. | show 🗑
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| show | Polytheism
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| A religion with a rather concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location where its adherents are located. | show 🗑
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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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| During WWII, large metal birds dropped modern goods onto our lands and into our seas. Outsiders say they were planes, but we know it was our ancestors. The worship of these goods and birds make people call us the ___________. | show 🗑
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| is a monotheistic religion that is the most popular and widespread religion in the world. | show 🗑
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| Language that is created by mixing a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the area | show 🗑
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| show | Mormonism
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| a complex system of moral, social, political, and religious thought. Has and continues to affect Chinese Civilization tremendously. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Hinduism
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| show | Reincarnation
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| I live in Indonesia and believe Muhammad is the prophet of God. This makes me an adherent of ________. | show 🗑
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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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| My religion became the basic belief system for the two most practiced religions in the world today. I believe in _________. | show 🗑
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| show | Interfaith Boundaries
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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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| show | Religious Cultural Hearth
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| place where religious figures and congregations meet to perform religious ceremonies. | show 🗑
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| show | Secularism
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| range of traditional beliefs and practices that claim the ability to cure, heal, and cause pain to people. | show 🗑
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| show | Shintoism
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| show | Sikhism
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| restriction on behavior based on social customs and environment | show 🗑
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| show | Irredentism
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| show | Global Commons
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| show | Buffer State
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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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| show | Border Landscape
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| show | Centrifugal
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| show | Annexation
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| show | Exclusive Economic Zone
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| show | Electoral Regions
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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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| The United States overall good economic development is __________ because it instills confidence in the governmental system and a sense of national pride despite ethnic differences. | show 🗑
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| show | Geopolitics
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| show | Devolution
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| show | Conference of Berlin
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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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| Country with more than one nationality | show 🗑
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| The European Union can be considered a ___________ because these sovereign states all share a common currency and have special rules regarding trade, travel, and economic development. | show 🗑
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| This is the only continent with no permanent residents. | show 🗑
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| 3 or more countries join forces to achieve a common goal. | show 🗑
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| show | Exclave
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| political philosophy in which a group or body of members are bound together with a | show 🗑
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| government where the bulk of the power lies with a central national government, good for small states and nation-states who do not have a large area or many different viewpoints to take into consideration. | show 🗑
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| show | Frontier
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| show | Colonialism
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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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| show | Heartland
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| What do you call a region controlled by a city that is independent from other cities? | show 🗑
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| symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons. used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state. An example would be Brasília. | show 🗑
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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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| a group of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland. These groups are immune to globalization because they have no use to spread worldwide, they simply will fight to control the area that is important to them. | show 🗑
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| show | Multi-ethnic state
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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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| Commercial agriculture characterized by integrating different steps in the food-processing industry. These are large corporations that control planting to selling. | show 🗑
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| Area of dairy farming that surrounds urban areas. These farms are usually close to cities to avoid spoilage during transportation. | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizer. Because of Green Revolution, agricultural productivity at a global scale has increased faster than the population. | show 🗑
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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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| Tillage between rows of crops of plants. Popular method of organic farming to prevent stepping on plants | show 🗑
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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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| The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold | show 🗑
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| show | Mediterranean Agriculture
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| Subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. Often found in dry regions where farming would be difficult. | show 🗑
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| Precursor to Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, that allowed a shift in work force beyond subsistence farming to allow labor to work in factories. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Suitcase Farm
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| show | Tragedy of the commons
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| pastoral practice of seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Sustainable Agriculture
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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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| Pattern of distribution of MDCs and LDCs. The ______________ explains that MDC are the world's markets and mostly lie in the Northern Hemisphere. LDCs are the world's producers and mostly lie in the Southern Hemisphere. | show 🗑
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| show | Cultural Convergence
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| show | Dependency Theory
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| The improvement in material conditions of a place as a result of diffusion of technology and knowledge | show 🗑
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| The high____________ of MDCs was not a problem until now because LDCs are developing and requiring more oil and electric than before. | show 🗑
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| show | Foreign Direct Investment
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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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| compares the ability of women and men to to participate in economic and political decision making by looking at percentage of women in top professional and political roles | show 🗑
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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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| show | Purchasing Power Parity
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| show | North American Free Trade Association
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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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| Industrial arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers for a continuous flow of work to piece together the final product (AKA assembly line operations), each movement of material is made as simple and short as possible | show 🗑
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| Benefits or advantages (savings, cost reductions, etc.) resulting from the spatial clustering of activities and/or people | show 🗑
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| show | Rostow’s “Stages of Growth” Model
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| show | Aluminum Industry
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| show | Weber Model
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| show | Bulk-Reducing Industry
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| Industry whose final product weighs more than the inputs | show 🗑
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| show | Right to Work Laws
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| show | Maquiladora
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| Manufacturer controls every aspect of production | show 🗑
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| Turns certain parts of production over to independent suppliers in order to take advantage of optimal locations for certain industries in terms of labor costs, education necessary, and proximity to mar | show 🗑
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| show | Blockbusting
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| By analyzing these 5,000 people size neighborhoods, governments and private businesses can see patterns of ethnicity and wealth. | show 🗑
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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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| Revitalization projects have caused a ___________ of downtown areas that originally housed low income families, but now young urban professionals are moving in. | show 🗑
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| show | CBD
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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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| Process of social and economic change caused by removal of industry as a country moves into the tertiary sector. | show 🗑
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| show | Edge City
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| show | Ghetto
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| show | Metropolitan Statistical Area
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| show | Periodic Market
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| show | Primate City Rule
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| The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a given service. Everyday items like groceries etc. have a short range. The range of specialty items is much longer. | show 🗑
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| These are shantytowns or slums that surround the central business district or the main primate city in the LDCs. These areas have few amenities and the homes are usually made out of temporary materials. | show 🗑
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| The minimum number and type of people needed to support a service, example: expensive services need a wealthy client. Large services like Major league sports teams need a large number of people to survive. | show 🗑
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| a net migration from urban to rural areas (this only happens in very developed areas in North America and Western Europe) | show 🗑
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| The Toyota factory in Spartanburg would be an example of a ____________ because its products are exported all over the United States and it has spured large scale growth of other services in the Spartanburg area. | show 🗑
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| show | Clustered Rural Settlement
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| show | Command and Control Center City
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| During Westward Expansion, pioneers created _____________ in the Great Plains because the East had become crowded and they had moved without extended family, so they preffered to live isolated from their neighbors. | show 🗑
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| The economic housing structure of the ___________ is opposite to most in the United States because most of their suburbs are filled with high rise low income apartments rather than upper middle class neighborhoods. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Non-Basic Industry
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| show | Sector Model
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| show | Specialized Producer Service Center
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| New York is a __________ because the World Trade Center and United Nations spread information and wealth throughout the world. | show 🗑
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Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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