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Chapter 4 Vocabulary

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show An area of spatial change where the peripheries of two adjacent realm or regions join.  
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show A form of spatial analysis that integrates computer hardware, mapping software, and such specialized tools as models and algorithms.  
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show A representation of a unit of terrain obtained from remote sensing imagery  
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show The half of the globe containing the greatest amount of land surface centered on Western Europe  
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show An independent political entity consisting of a single city with(out) an immediate hinterland  
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show A hallmark of Europe’s economy economic geography that later spread to many other parts of the world  
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show Term applied to the social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce, and especially manufacturing and urbanization that resulted from technological innovations  
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Sovereignty   show
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Nation state   show
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Nation   show
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show The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm.  
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Complementarity   show
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show The capacity to move a good from one place to another at a bearable cost; the ease with which a commodity may be transported.  
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Central Business district (CBD)   show
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Centrifugal forces   show
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Centripetal forces   show
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Supranationalism   show
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show The 19 countries whose official currency is the euro  
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Schengen Area   show
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show Rhône-Alpes (France), Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Catalonia (Spain), and Lombardy (Italy). High-technology-driven region  
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Devolution   show
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Asylum   show
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show A sovereign state that contains a minuscule land are and population  
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show Hierarchical network or grouping of urban areas within a finite geographic area  
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Primate city   show
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show Internal locational attributes of an urban center  
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Situation   show
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show The widening mouth of a river as it reaches the sea  
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Conurbation   show
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show An interior state wholly surrounded by land  
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World-city   show
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Metropolis   show
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Break-of-bulk   show
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show A place where goods are imported, stored, and transshipment  
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Shatter belt   show
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Balkanization   show
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Irredentism   show
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show A bounded (non-island) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state.  
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