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Geography Terms Test

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communism
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nationalism
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structural adjustment policies
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leadership cycles
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kinship
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world-system
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International regime
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imperialism
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colonization
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cartogram
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sense of place
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gender
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geomorphology
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sovereignty
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culture
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regionalism
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quaternary activity
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neoliberalism
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spatial justice
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globalization
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form of economic and social organization characterized by the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange
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orientation of contemporary politics around the international arena rather than the national one
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increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change
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shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life
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periods of international power established by individual states through economic, political, and military competition
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extension of the power of a nation through direct or indirect control of the economic and political life of other territories international division of labor
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economic doctrine based on a belief in a minimalist role for the state, assuming the desirability of free markets as the ideal condition not only for economic organization but also for social and political life
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economic activity that deals with the handling and processing of knowledge and information
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study of landforms
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shared notion of relationship among members of a group often but not necessarily based on blood, marriage, or adoption
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establishment of settlement in a place or region
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strong feelings of collective identity shared by religious or ethnic groups that are concentrated within a particular region
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exercise of state power over people and territory, recognized by other states and codified by international law
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feeling of belonging to a nation as well as the belief that a nation has a natural right to determine its own affairs
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fairness of the distribution of society's burdens and benefits, taking into account spatial variations in people's needs and in their contribution to the production of wealth and social well-being
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map projection that is transformed in order to promote legibility or to reveal patterns not readily apparent on a traditional base map climate
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interdependent system of linked by political and economic competition
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feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories that they associate with a place and to the symbolism that they attach to it
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economic policies, mostly associated with the International Monetary Fund, that required governments to cut budgets and liberalize trade in return for debt relief
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social differences between men and women rather than the anatomical differences related to sex
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development bank and the largest source of development assistance in the world
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networks of labor and production processes that originate in the extraction or production of raw materials. The end result is the delivery and consumption of a finished commodity
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extreme devotion to local interests and customs
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economic activity involving the processing, transformation, fabrication, or assembly of raw materials, or the reassembly, refinishing, or packaging of manufactured goods
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increase in world temperatures and change in climate associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other gases resulting from human activities such as deforestation and fossil-fuel burning
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establishment and maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate and alien society
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anything useful that can be bought or sold
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geographer's classification of individual places or areal units
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large-scale geographic division based on continental and physiographic settings that contain major clusters of humankind with broadly similar cultural attributes
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trapping of heat within the atmosphere by water vapor and gases, such as carbon dioxide, resulting in the warming of the atmosphere and surface

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