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| A. root of this word is the Latin for mixed; it means a person of mixed white andB. 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 C. Any valued element of the environment; includes minerals, water,D. The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns.E. tropical grassland containing widely spaced treesF. 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.G. 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 H. A person migrating into a particular country or area; an in-migrant.I. - 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 domJ. Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately
equal complexity and technological level come into close contactK. The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.@L. the widening mouth of a river as it reaches the sea. An estuary forms when theM. Capita means individual, Income, production, or some other measure is often given per individual.N. A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.@O. 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)P. by international agreement, the nautical mile-- the standard measure at sea is,Q. 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 BecaR. The interdisciplinary study of population especially birth rates and death rates,growth patterns longevity migration and related characteristics.S. It may also encompass a densely populated corridor along a major river where riverT. 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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