AP Human AP Exam Vocab
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| show | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| Physical Geography | show 🗑
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| show | The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective.
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| Location theory | show 🗑
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| show | State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.
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| show | Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures.
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| Spatial Interaction | show 🗑
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| show | The degree of ease between the measured length between places.
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| show | The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network.
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| Landscape | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| show | Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude.
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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| show | Satellite
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| show | A hunt for a cache, the Global Positioning System coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers.
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| show | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.
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| Mental Maps | show 🗑
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| Generalized map | show 🗑
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| show | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study.
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| show | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed to the user.
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| show | A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena.
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| show | A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.
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| show | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity.
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| Culture Trait | show 🗑
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| Cultural Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Independent Invention | show 🗑
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| show | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source.
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| show | Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture.
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| show | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.
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| show | The distance-controlled speading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person
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| show | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.
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| show | A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development.
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| Isotherms | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| show | The multiple interaction and relationships between a culture and the natural environment
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| Political Ecology | show 🗑
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| show | Largest branch of Islam, believe in the effectiveness of family and community in the solution of life's problems.
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| show | A division of Islam, represent the Persian variation, believe in the infallibility and divine right to authority of the Imams, descendants of Ali.
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| Taoism | show 🗑
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| Theocracy | show 🗑
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| show | A belief system that espouses the idea that there is one true religion that is universal in scope.
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| show | These are the styles of architecture created by the religions.
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| Religious Conflict | show 🗑
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| Religious toponym | show 🗑
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| show | Place or space that people infuse with religious meaning
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| Secularism | show 🗑
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| show | Community faith in traditional societies in which people follow a religious leader, teacher, healer and visionary.
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| show | Located in Japan, focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship
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| show | One of the oldest religions in the modern world, dating back over 4,000 years and does not have a founder, theology or agreement of its origin.
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| Islam | show 🗑
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| Janism | show 🗑
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| show | A monotheistic, ethnic religion first developed among the Hebrew people, its determining conditions include descent from Israel, the Torah and tradition
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| show | Belief in one god
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| show | Belief in more then one god
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| show | A term used to describe religious, ideological and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement
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| show | A muslim pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah), usually around Ramadan
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| show | After this life you will come back in another life either as a plant, animal or a human life
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| show | A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities
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| show | A language used by speakers of a different native language for communication in commercial trade
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| show | A belief that natural objects may be the abode of dead people, spirits or gods who occasionally give the objects the appearance of life
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| show | A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, that suffering is inherent in all life but can be relieved by mental and moral self-purification
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| show | Fundamentalism carried to the point of violence.
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| Christianity | show 🗑
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| Confucianism | show 🗑
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| show | A religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exclusive to it. Such a religion does not seek converts.
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| show | A small bit of foreign territory lying within a state but not under its jurisdiction.
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| Fundamentalism | show 🗑
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| show | The Chinese art and science of placement and orientation of tombs, swellings, buildings and cities. Structures and objects are positioned in a effort to channel flows of sheng-chi in favorable ways.
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| Creole | show 🗑
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| Dialect | show 🗑
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| show | the border of usage of an individual word or pronunciation
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| Language | show 🗑
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| show | A group of related languages derived from common ancestor
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| show | A group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor
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| show | An existing, well established language of communication and commerce used widely where it is not a mother tongue
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| show | 5,000 to 10,000 living languages depending generally on the precision of ones definition of language
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| show | The common use of two or more languages in a society or country
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| show | A governmentally designated language of instruction of government, of the courts and other official public or private communication
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| show | An auxiliary language derived, with reduced vocabulary and simplified structure from other languages
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| Toponymy | show 🗑
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| show | Tracking shifting consonants and cognates back in an effort to reconstruct elements of a prior common language.
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| Doubling Time | show 🗑
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| Gendered Space | show 🗑
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| show | A figured that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population.
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| show | The number of infants who die within the first month of life per 1,000 births.
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| Child Mortality Rate | show 🗑
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| show | The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit.
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| Physiologic Population Density | show 🗑
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| show | A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land.
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| show | Description of locations on the Earth's surface where populations live.
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| Population Explosion | show 🗑
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| Natural Increase | show 🗑
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| Stationary Population Level(zero population growth) | show 🗑
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| show | Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links.
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| Cyclic Movement | show 🗑
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| show | The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.
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| show | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.
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| Internal Migration | show 🗑
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| show | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
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| show | A change in residence intended to be permanent
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| show | Temporary, recurrent relocation.
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| show | Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale.
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| show | Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas.
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| Refugees | show 🗑
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| show | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages.
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| show | A seasonal periodic movement of person and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures.
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| Voluntary Migration | show 🗑
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| Dependency Ratio | show 🗑
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| Ecumene | show 🗑
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| Overpopulation | show 🗑
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| show | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
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| show | The number of males per 100 females in the population.
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| show | A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or nongovernmental organization.
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| Interregional Migration | show 🗑
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| show | All individuals in a certain age range.
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| show | Continued population growth long after replacement-level fertility rates have been reached.
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| show | Percentage of the total population or the population of each sex at each age level.
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| Carrying Capacity | show 🗑
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| show | Regions where demographics take place.
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| Demographics | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when a disease is transmitted to a new location.
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| Maladaptation | show 🗑
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| Natality | show 🗑
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| show | Level of material comfort as measured by the goods, service and luxuries available.
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| show | Capable of being continued to an individual, group or nation.
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| show | When the population is not sufficient to make full use of all the resources available and so the standard of living are not as high as they could be.
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| Intercontinental migration | show 🗑
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| Asylum | show 🗑
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| Place Utility | show 🗑
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| show | Set of all points that can be reached by an individual.
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| Transmigration | show 🗑
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| show | Process to control immigrants in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from immigrating.
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| Reverse Remittance | show 🗑
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| Human Trafficking | show 🗑
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| show | The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant’s home country.
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| show | Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination.
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| show | The Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union.
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| show | adoptation of cultural traits by one group under the influence of another
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| assimilation | show 🗑
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| cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| show | the visible imprint human activity and culture on the landscape
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| culture realm | show 🗑
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| show | a society's collective beliefs, symbols, values, forms of behavior and social organizations, together with its tools, structures and artifacts created according to the group's condition of life
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| show | a region defined by similar cultural traits and cultural landscape
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| show | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination
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| show | introduction of new ideas, practices, objects usually an alteration of custom or culture within a social group
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| show | diffusion of a process with negative side effects or what works well in one region may not in another
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| sequent occupance | show 🗑
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| adaptive strategies | show 🗑
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| show | the part of the physical landscape that represents material culture
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| folk culture | show 🗑
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| show | oral traditions of a folk culture, including tales, fables, legends, customary observations and moral teachings
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| show | the tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles and technologies
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| nonmaterial culture | show 🗑
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| popular culture | show 🗑
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| traditional architecture | show 🗑
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| show | the franchise is the civil right to vote or the exercise of that right
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| gender gap | show 🗑
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| show | the practice of intentionally killing an infant
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| maternal mortality rate | show 🗑
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| ethnic cleansing | show 🗑
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| show | spanish word for neighborhood
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| show | area, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture in which a local culture can practice its customs
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| race | show 🗑
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| show | a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal or economic pressure
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| show | the cultural diversity of communities within a given society and the policies that promote this diversity.
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| ethnic group | show 🗑
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| show | a sizable area inhabited by an ethnic minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often exercises some measure of political and social control over it
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| show | based on the notion that as one culture expands in prosperity, it must engulf regions nearby to ensure on going cultural success
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| show | Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
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| segregation | show 🗑
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| show | This social distance is also known as body space and comfort zone and ... The social distances here are approximate, of course and will vary with people.
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| plural society | show 🗑
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| show | the evolutionary process by which an individual modifies his personal habits and customs to fit in to a particular culture.
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| longevity | show 🗑
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| show | the identity of a group or culture or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture. ...
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| ethnic conflict | show 🗑
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| ethnic enclave | show 🗑
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| show | The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment
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| Annexation | show 🗑
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| show | Area governed by a system known as the Antarctic Treaty System which is administered through annual meetings
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| show | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas
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| show | A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it is inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other
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| show | When two or more states disagree about the demarcation of a political boundary
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| show | Forces that tend to divide a country-such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic or ideological differences
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| show | An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political economic and cultural principles in another territory
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| Confederation | show 🗑
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| show | Spatial structure of an economic system in which underdeveloped or declining peripheral areas are defined with respect to their dependence on a dominating developed core region.
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| show | Movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states.
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| show | The political theory that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control.
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| Exclusive Economic Zone | show 🗑
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| show | The different voting districts that make up local, state and national regions
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| show | A political territorial system where in a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests; defense, foreign affairs, and yet allows these various entities to retain their own identities and laws
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| show | Is the area of a country, province, region or state regarded as enjoying primary status, although there are exceptions
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| show | The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within its territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but lies within a neighboring state
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| show | An approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the midpoint between two places
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| show | Member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and with people possessing bonds of shared cultural attributes
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| show | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people
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| show | Political geographical group, frequently an ethnic group identification with a particular region of a state rather than with the state as a whole
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| show | A small weak country dominated by one powerful neighbor to the extent that some or much of its independence is lost
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| show | A centralized authority that enforces a single political, economical and legal system within its territorial boundaries
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| show | A method of decision-making in multi-national political communities, wherein power is transferred or delegated to an authority by governments of member states
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| show | A sovereign state governed as one single unit in which the central government is supreme and any administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government chooses to delegate
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| show | Decoding of entire genomes or genetic codes for species, which allows biologists studying organisms as different as a bacterium and a human being, a common language in which to communicate
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| show | A field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields
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| show | Term describing times of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes that can lead to farm bankruptcy
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| show | The subsistence method based on edible plants and animals from the wild
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| show | Cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. These clearings are usually abandoned after a few years in favor of newly cleared forestland.
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| show | Turning up land between rows of crop plants
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| show | An area of landscape, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of raising and grazing livestock
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| show | The growing of vegetables or flowers for market
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| show | The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body
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| show | A crop for direct sale in a market, as distinguished from a crop for use as livestock feed or for other purposes.
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| show | Genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention
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| show | Resources that can regenerate as they are exploited
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| show | Took place which increased efficiency of production as well as distribution which allowed more people to move to the cities as the industrial revolution go under way
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| show | Natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself
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| show | For the first time farmers using substantial inputs purchased off their farms, in the form of fertilizers for their land and artificial feedstuffs for their animals
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| show | A dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's interest for this to happen
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| show | Commercial gardening and fruit farming so named for bartering or the exchange of commodities
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| show | Dependence on a single agricultural commodity
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| show | Non-subsistence crops such as tobacco, tea, cacao, and coffee.
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| show | Explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another
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| show | The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity
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| show | Process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the region to switch to a service economy and work through a period of high unemployment
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| Gentrification | show 🗑
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| show | The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by drug lords or gangs.
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| show | Term used to designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world
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| Rank-size rule | show 🗑
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| show | A discriminatory real estate's practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. Today it is officially illegal.
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| show | The internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting
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| show | The external location attributes of a place, its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places
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| Suburbanization | show 🗑
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| Urban Hierarchy | show 🗑
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| Urban Morphology | show 🗑
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| show | The proportion of a country's population living in urban places.
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| show | The movement of people to and the clustering of people in, towns and cities- a major force in every geographic realm today
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| show | When a expanding city absorbs the rural countryside and transforms it into suburbs.
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| show | Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy.
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| Zone | show 🗑
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| show | A community's collection of basic industries
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| show | A section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal or economic pressure
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| Multiple nuclei model | show 🗑
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| Sector Model | show 🗑
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| Squatter Settlement | show 🗑
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| show | The minimum number of people needed to support the service
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| show | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
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| show | A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economical factors
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| Barriadas | show 🗑
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| Cityscapes | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city
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| Hydraulic civilization | show 🗑
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| show | New building on empty parcels of land within a checkerboard pattern of development
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| Megacities | show 🗑
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| show | A small social area within a city where residents share values and concerns and interact with one another on a daily basis
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| Office Park | show 🗑
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| Gated Community | show 🗑
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| show | The spatial arrangement of buildings, roads, towns, and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area
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| Symbolic Landscape | show 🗑
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| show | A region in which the world's first cities evolved
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| show | The proportion of a country's population living in cities
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| show | The part of a national economy that involves productive labor not subject to formal systems of control or payment
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| show | The basic structure of services, installations, and facilities needed to support industrial, agricultural and other economic development
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| show | In the United States, a large functionally integrated settlement area comprising of one or more whole county units and usually containing several urbanized areas
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| Peak Value Intersection | show 🗑
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| Town | show 🗑
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| show | Geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate changes as the distance from the Central Business District decreases
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| show | The process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location and/or group
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| show | Cities that arose in societies that fell under the domination of Europe and North America in the early expansion of the capitalist world system
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| Counterurbanization | show 🗑
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| Employment structure | show 🗑
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| show | Term used for a shanty town in Brazil
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| Female Headed Household | show 🗑
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| Gateway City | show 🗑
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| Indigenous City | show 🗑
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| Inner City | show 🗑
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| Lateral Commuting | show 🗑
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| show | A residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents
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| Postmodern Urban Landscape | show 🗑
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| show | A shopping center with stores and businesses facing a system of enclosed walkways
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| show | Heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor
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| show | Rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
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| Urban Growth Rate | show 🗑
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| show | Metropolitan area which there is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas
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| Forward Capital | show 🗑
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| show | The deliberate killing of a city, as happens, for example, when cities are targeted for destruction during wars.
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| Synekism | show 🗑
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| Galactic City | show 🗑
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| show | Geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate changes as the distance from the Central Business District decreases
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| Acid Rain | show 🗑
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| Agglomeration | show 🗑
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| Agglomeration economies | show 🗑
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| show | the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms or damages the natural environment, into the atmosphere
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| show | Manufactures of aluminum considered as a group
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| show | Social theories about production and related socioeconomic phenomena
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| show | a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another
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| show | concept by Spykman to describe the maritime fringe of a country or continent, in particular the densely populated western, southern and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent
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| Comparative advantage | show 🗑
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| show | a mechanism by which an output is enhanced
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| Deglomeration | show 🗑
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| show | process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the region to switch to a service economy and to work through a high period of high unemployment
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| Economic sectors | show 🗑
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| show | characteristics of a production process in which an increase in the scale of the firm causes a decrease in the long run average cost of each unit
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| show | tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature
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| show | discovered to be hydro, solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, coal, crude oil, natural gas, and ocean wave motion and are used to produce power
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| Entrepot | show 🗑
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| Export processing zone | show 🗑
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| Fixed costs | show 🗑
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| show | an industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors such as resources or transport
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| show | refers to the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
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| show | the blanket like effect of the atmosphere in the heating of the Earth's surface; shortwave insolation passes through the "glass" of the atmospheric "greenhouse" heats the surface is converted to longwave radiation that traps heat which raises the earth's
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| Heartland | show 🗑
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| show | Theory attempting to explain why industries are found to have located in the places they are found
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| Infrastructure | show 🗑
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| International division of labor | show 🗑
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| Labor intensive | show 🗑
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| Least-cost location | show 🗑
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| Manufacturing exports zones | show 🗑
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| show | Zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the US market, low wage workers in the primarily foreign owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods
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| Multiplier Effect | show 🗑
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| NAFTA | show 🗑
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| Outsourcing | show 🗑
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| show | With reference to production, to outsource to a third party located outside the country.
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| Plant location | show 🗑
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| Postindustrial | show 🗑
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| show | small home based business
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| Special Economic Zones | show 🗑
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| show | Focused on the substitution of a product, service or process to another that is more efficient or beneficial in some way while retaining the same functionality
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| show | The maximum distance a customer is willing to travel
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| show | The minimum market area size
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| show | The social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
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| Flexible Production | show 🗑
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| Friction of Distance | show 🗑
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| show | A multinational corporation(MNC) also called multinational enterprise (MNE) is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country
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| show | Ownership by the same firm of number of companies that exist along a variety of points on a commodity chain.
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| show | Costs that change directly with the amount of production
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| show | Marketing plans, tactics, and methods that have been modified to fit in with the local settings in foreign markets
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| show | The adoption by companies of flexible work rules such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks
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| show | When an industry is located near its customers due to high transportation costs of the final product.
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| Weight-losing | show 🗑
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| show | relative gain in weight of production inputs during the production process
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| Growth poles | show 🗑
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| show | Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion
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| show | Higher wages and prices are found at the core while the lack of employment in the periphery keeps wages low there. The result may well be a balance of payments crisis at the periphery
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| show | Is the contact and interaction of one country to another
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| Dependency theory | show 🗑
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| Foreign Direct Investment | show 🗑
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| Commodity Chain | show 🗑
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| show | The total value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given year
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| show | Total value of all goods and services produced by a country's economy in a given year. It includes all goods and services produced by corporations and individuals.
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| Human Development Index | show 🗑
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| Levels of Development | show 🗑
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| show | A policy whereby a major power uses economic and political means to perpetuate or extend its influence over underdeveloped nations or areas
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| Purchasing Power Parity | show 🗑
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| show | The presence in a country of a technology that other countries do not have, so that it can produce and export a good whose cost might otherwise be higher than abroad
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| Technology Transfer | show 🗑
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| show | underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
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| Newly Industrializing Countries | show 🗑
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| show | The movement of production from one site to another based on the place-based cost advantages of the new site
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| Gross National Income | show 🗑
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| show | When a poorer country ties the value of its currency to that of a wealthier country, or when it abandons its currency and adopts the wealthier country's currency as its own.
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| show | Areas along or near major transportation arteries that are devoted to the research, development and sale of high-technology products. These areas develop because of the networking and synergistic advantages of concentrating high-technology enterprises in
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