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Geography terms Test

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Demography
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Natural resource
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Buffer Zone
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Per capita
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Devolution
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Shifting agriculture
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Urban (metropolitan) area
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Hinterland
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root of this word is the Latin for mixed; it means a person of mixed white and
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New name for the western Pacific Rim where a significant regional realignment is now taking place. Includes rapidly-developing countries and parts of countries and parts if countries lining the Pacific from Japan's Hokkaido in the north to New Zealand
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Any valued element of the environment; includes minerals, water,
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The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns.
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tropical grassland containing widely spaced trees
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Cultivation of crops in recently cut and burned tropical forest clearings, soon to be abandoned in favor of newly cleared nearby forest land. Also known/as slash-and-burn agriculture.
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literally, "country behind," a term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center. That center is the focus of goods and services, produced for its hinterland and is its dominant urban influence as well. In the case of a port City, the
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A person migrating into a particular country or area; an in-migrant.
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- A set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries. Asia,Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan were parts of a buffer zone between British and Russian-Chinese imperial spheres. Thailand was a buffer state between British and French colonial dom
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Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact
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The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.@
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the widening mouth of a river as it reaches the sea. An estuary forms when the
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Capita means individual, Income, production, or some other measure is often given per individual.
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A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.@
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Narrow, steep-sided, elongated, and inundated costal valley deepened by glacier ice that has since melted away, leaving the sea to penetrate. (Most associated with Sweden & Finland)
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by international agreement, the nautical mile-- the standard measure at sea is,
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importance to geographers that means, literally, to be in. contact with, adjoining, or adjacent. Sometimes we hear the continental (conterminous) United State minus Alaska referred to as contiguous. Alaska is not contiguous to these "lower 48" states Beca
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The interdisciplinary study of population especially birth rates and death rates,growth patterns longevity migration and related characteristics.
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It may also encompass a densely populated corridor along a major river where river
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the entire built up, non-rural area and its population including the most recently constructed suburban appendages. Provides a better picture of the dimensions and population of such an area than the delimited municipality (central city) that forms it
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far-flung group of countries and parts of countries extending clockwise on the map from New Zealand to Chile sharing the following criteria 1 they face the Pacific 2 they evince relatively high levels of economic development, industrialization, and u
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the drive toward the creation and expansion of a colonial empire and, on established its perpetuation.
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Crescent-shaped zone of productive lands extending from the southeastern Mediterranean coast through Lebanon and Syria to the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia (in Iraq). Once more fertile than today, this is one of the world's great source areas of ag
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the process of spreading and adoption of cultural element, from ~its place of origin across a wider area
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the long-term conditions (over at least 30 years) of aggregate weather over a region, summarized by averages and measures of variability; a synthesis of the succession of weather events we have learned to expect at any given location.
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a combination of gradational forces that shape the earth’s surface landforms, running water, wind action, and the force of moving Ice combine to war away soil and rock. Human activities often speed erosional processes. Such as through the destruction of n
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The earths envelope of gases that rest on the oceans and land surface and penetrates the open spaces spaces within soils. This layer of nitrogen (78 percent, oxygen (21 percent) and traces of other gases is the densest at the earths surface and thins with
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an area, small or large, where the supply of water permits the transformation of the
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the root of the word oriental is from the Latin for rise. Thus it has to do with the direction in which one sees the sun rise the east: oriental therefore means eastern (Asians)@
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Areas of the oceans away from land, beyond national jurisdiction, open and free for all to use.

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