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| 266966803 | Absolute location | exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | 0 | |
| 266966804 | acculturation | Some parts of a ethnic groups cultural practices and behaviors change because of interaction with another group. (i.e.- American Muslims wearing jeans) | 1 | |
| 266966805 | Age-sex pyramid | A graph showing the distribution of the ages of males and females in a population | 2 | |
| 266966806 | Animism | belief that spirits inhabit everything on the earth including animals and objects | 3 | |
| 266966807 | Arithmetic density | the population of a country divided by its total land area | 4 | |
| 266966808 | assimilation | An ethnic group replaces it's cultural behaviors and practices with those from another groups. | 5 | |
| 266966809 | Brain drain | The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a country or other place | 6 | |
| 266978376 | Isopleth Map | map using lines to connect locations of equal data value | 7 | |
| 266978377 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 8 | |
| 266978378 | Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 9 | |
| 266978379 | Less Developed Countries | Also known as developing country, a country that is at a relatively early stage in economic development | 10 | |
| 266978380 | Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live. | 11 | |
| 266978381 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 12 | |
| 266978382 | Malthusian Theory | Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence | 13 | |
| 268351563 | Map Distortion | Happens when a round surface is made flat. distortion may be in size or shape of land forms, distance between land forms, or in direction. | 14 | |
| 268351564 | Map Scale | shows the ratio between distances on a map and distances on the earth | 15 | |
| 268351565 | Maps | provide info about specific geographic location. look for a legend with symbols, compass, and scale | 16 | |
| 268351566 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 17 | |
| 268351567 | More Developed Countries | A country that is highly industrialized with a diverse economy and the people have a higher standard of living | 18 | |
| 268351568 | Nation | a group of people with the same ethnicity | 19 | |
| 268351569 | Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. | 20 | |
| 268351570 | Cartography | science or art of making maps | 21 | |
| 268351571 | Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality migrated there | 22 | |
| 268351572 | Choropleth map | a thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area | 23 | |
| 268351573 | concentration | The spread of something over a given area. | 24 | |
| 268351574 | contagious diffusion | The spread of a characteristic through direct contact with another person or another place. | 25 | |
| 268351575 | contour lines | lines that show elevation, relief and slope on a topographic map | 26 | |
| 268351576 | core-periphery | Core countries have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows. Periphery countries usually have less development and are poorer countries | 27 | |
| 268933674 | Nation-state | a state/country made up of one ethnicity | 28 | |
| 268933675 | Natural Increase Rate | The difference between the number of births and number of deaths within a particular country. | 29 | |
| 268933676 | Origin of Geography | The Greek scholar Eratosthenes is credited with the first use of the word "geography" in the third century B.C. He is also known as the "father of geography" for his geographical writing and accomplishments, including the measurement of the circumference of the Earth. | 30 | |
| 268933677 | Overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. | 31 | |
| 268933678 | Pattern | something regarded as a normative example | 32 | |
| 268933679 | Perceptual Region | a region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. | 33 | |
| 268933680 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 34 | |
| 268933681 | Political Refugees | people who had fled country for political reasons | 35 | |
| 268933682 | Polytheism | belief in many gods | 36 | |
| 268933683 | Popular Culture | cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population (Pop Culture) | 37 | |
| 268933684 | Population Concentrations around the World | higher concentration in more developed countries, lower in less developed | 38 | |
| 268933685 | Population Density | number of individuals per unit area | 39 | |
| 268933686 | Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | 40 | |
| 268933687 | Pull Factor | factor such as freedom or employment opportunities that attract a person to a country | 41 | |
| 268937193 | Push Factor | factor, such as unemployment or the lack of freedom of speech, that makes people want to leave their country and move to another one | 42 | |
| 268937194 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another | 43 | |
| 268937195 | Ratio Scale | a comparison of two numbers on a scale | 44 | |
| 268937196 | Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. | 45 | |
| 268937197 | Relocation Diffusion | Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. | 46 | |
| 268937198 | Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | 47 | |
| 268937199 | Scale | the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | 48 | |
| 271567098 | cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. | 49 | |
| 271567099 | crude death rate | The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. | 50 | |
| 271567100 | cultural trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. | 51 | |
| 271567101 | culture | the way a group of people live | 52 | |
| 271567102 | culture region | an area in which people have many shared culture traits | 53 | |
| 271567103 | demographic transition model | A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. | 54 | |
| 271567104 | demography | the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | 55 | |
| 272283376 | Site | the internal physical attributes of aplce; inclusing abs. location, spatial characteristics and physical setting | 56 | |
| 272283377 | Situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings | 57 | |
| 272283378 | Spatial distribution | physical location of geographic phenomena across space | 58 | |
| 272283379 | Spatial perspective | observing variations in geographic phenomena across space | 59 | |
| 272283380 | state | a politically organized territory that is administered by a soverign gov. and recongized by a large portion os the internation community | 60 | |
| 272283381 | Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | 61 | |
| 272283382 | Supranationalism | a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives | 62 | |
| 272770850 | density | the spatial property of being crowded together | 63 | |
| 272770851 | developing countries | A country that is poorly developed, with citizens whos main income is agriculture. "low income nations" | 64 | |
| 272770852 | devolution | The transfer of powers from a national or central government to a state or local government. | 65 | |
| 272770853 | dialect | a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | 66 | |
| 272770854 | diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 67 | |
| 272770855 | dispersion | the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume | 68 | |
| 272770856 | distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 69 | |
| 272770857 | dot map | maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon, such as a population | 70 | |
| 272770858 | doubling time | the time required for a population to double in size | 71 | |
| 272770859 | ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | 72 | |
| 272770860 | environmental determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions | 73 | |
| 272770861 | ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region | 74 | |
| 272770862 | expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | 75 | |
| 272770863 | five themes of geography | Location, Place, Regions, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction | 76 | |
| 272770864 | folk customs | Beliefs or customs taught by one generation to the next, often orally. | 77 | |
| 272770865 | forced migration | human migration flows in which the movers have not choice but to relocate | 78 | |
| 272770866 | functional region | a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it | 79 | |
| 272770867 | geophagy | The practice of eating dirt. | 80 | |
| 272770868 | GIS | Geographic Information System, A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | 81 | |
| 272770869 | gravitational pull model | The further away something is the less likely people are going to move there. | 82 | |
| 272770870 | hierarchical diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | 83 | |
| 274043350 | high latitudes | the regions between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole and the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole | 84 | |
| 274043351 | human geography | the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | 85 | |
| 274043352 | indo-european language families | english, spanish, russian, and hindi are all part of what language family | 86 | |
| 274043353 | infant mortality rate | the death rate during the first year of life | 87 | |
| 274043354 | intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 88 | |
| 274043355 | intervening opportunity | The existence of a closer, less expensive opportunity for obtaining a good or service, or for a migration destination. Such opportunities lessen the attractiveness of more distant places. | 89 | |
| 274043356 | isoline | map line that connects points of equal or very similar values (i think it means altitude values) | 90 | |
| 274099907 | Thomas Malthus | the British economist who created the theory that the population was growing faster than food could handle | 91 | |
| 274099908 | toponym | place name | 92 | |
| 274099909 | total fertility rate | the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years | 93 | |
| 274099910 | uniform region | a type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena | 94 | |
| 274099911 | universaling religion | a belief that there is one true religion, universal in scope | 95 | |
| 274099912 | voluntary migration | movement in which people relocate by choice, in response to oppurtunity | 96 | |
| 274099913 | world religions | major religions such as Christianity or Islam | 97 |
