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| 3645472840 | Acculturation | when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture | 0 | |
| 3645474902 | Aparthied | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa the separated different races (into different areas). | 1 | |
| 3645474903 | Assimilation | the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture | 2 | |
| 3645479312 | CBR- Crude Birth Rate | The total # of live births in a year for every 1000 people | 3 | |
| 3645483218 | CDR- Crude Birth Rate | The total # of deaths in a year for every 1000 people | 4 | |
| 3645485553 | Centrifugal Forces | An attitude that tends to divide people and decrease support for a state. | 5 | |
| 3645488082 | Centripetal Forces | An attitude that unifies people and enhance support | 6 | |
| 3645488083 | Chain Migration | People follow others to the same settlement because they are the same | 7 | |
| 3645491017 | Choropleth Map | A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area. | 8 | |
| 3645493919 | Creole Language | To languages mixed together | 9 | |
| 3645495213 | Cultural Development | 10 | ||
| 3645498525 | Cultural Landscape | How a certain group makes there place look like | 11 | |
| 3645503008 | Dependency Ratio | The # of people that must depend on others to live (usually people under 15 and over 64). They are compared to the people are active in the labor force. | 12 | |
| 3645505159 | Diffusion Types | The spreading of a feature or trend form on place to another over time. (Contagious, is the rapid widespread of a trend or feature throughout population. Expansion, the spread of a feature or trend throughout people. Hierarchical, the spread of a feature of trend from one key person to other people or places. Relocation, the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from place to place. Stimulus, the spread of an underlying principle.) | 13 | |
| 3645505182 | Distortion | Disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world of the: shape, distance, relative size, and direction of places on maps | 14 | |
| 3645509537 | Domino Theory | The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. | 15 | |
| 3645514995 | Dot Distribution | Thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents, or births | 16 | |
| 3645541840 | Environmental Determinism v.s. Possibilism | The place your born at is what determines your future and destiny. Possibilism says that you decide your future and destiny. | 17 | |
| 3645546134 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share similar physical and mental traits. | 18 | |
| 3645549376 | Ethnocentrism | Belief in superiority of one's own ethnic group | 19 | |
| 3645552236 | Gerrymandering | The process of rewarding legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power | 20 | |
| 3645552237 | GIS- Geographic Info sSystem | A computer system that stores, organizes and analyzes, and displays geographic data | 21 | |
| 3645552238 | GPS- Global Positioning System | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites. | 22 | |
| 3645556099 | Heartland Theory | Whichever state controlled the resource-rich "heartland" of Eastern Europe could eventually dominate the world. | 23 | |
| 3645602375 | Indo-European Language Branch | A large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. | 24 | |
| 3645607122 | Language Concentrations | Where a language is most used (guessed this one) | 25 | |
| 3645611465 | Language Families | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history | 26 | |
| 3645614872 | LDC Characteristics | A country relatively in early stage. In the process of economic development. | 27 | |
| 3645620573 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and used in trade by people who have different tongues. | 28 | |
| 3645782594 | MDC Characteristics | A country that has progressed relatively far along development | 29 | |
| 3645783967 | Micro-state | States with small land area | 30 | |
| 3645786052 | Migration Patterns | Patterns of movement; Intercontinental- over countries' borders, Interregional- within a region or certain area, Rural-Urban- from a rural area to an urban area (farm to a city). | 31 | |
| 3645788564 | Nation | Culturally defined group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to a territory and government | 32 | |
| 3645788565 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality (think of neighbors ) | 33 | |
| 3645790096 | NIR | The percentage growth of a population in a year (CBR-CDR) | 34 | |
| 3645792160 | Origin/Hearth | The place from where something originates | 35 | |
| 3645793962 | Pidgin Language | Very simple speed and grammar and limited vocab (Southerners during the time in the to kill a mockingbird book) | 36 | |
| 3645793963 | Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character | 37 | |
| 3645800149 | Population Pyramids | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex | 38 | |
| 3645801722 | Projections | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map | 39 | |
| 3645801723 | Race | Identification with a group of people descended from common ancestors | 40 | |
| 3645806341 | Ravenstein's Law of Migration | -Net Migration amounts to only a fraction of the gross migration between 2 places -The majority of migrants move short distances -Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big city destinations -Urban residents are less migratory than people in rural areas -Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults | 41 | |
| 3645806342 | Religions- Universal vs Ethnic | Universalizing attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. An Ethnic religion is generally defined by the ethnicity of its adherents, and conversion essentially equates to cultural assimilation into that ethnoreligious group. Universalizing= Everyone Ethnic= Born into it | 42 | |
| 3645813984 | Rim Theory | Nicholas Spykman's Theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest. | 43 | |
| 3645816604 | Shapes-Compact | Small and centralized. it is easily to manage since the government is close to all portions of the state. | 44 | |
| 3645818487 | Shapes-Elongated | An elongated shaped state is long and narrow | 45 | |
| 3645819782 | Shapes-Enclave | A country or part of a country that is surrounded by another. | 46 | |
| 3645822698 | Shapes-Exclave | A part of a country that is isolated from the main part and is surrounded by foreign territory | 47 | |
| 3645825463 | Shapes-Fragmented | State includes several discontinuous pieces of territory,separated by a physical or human barrier | 48 | |
| 3645829131 | Shapes-Perforated | A perforated state completely surrounds another one | 49 | |
| 3645835576 | Shapes-Prorupted | States has a long extension | 50 | |
| 3645835577 | Site | The physical character of a place | 51 | |
| 3645837031 | Situation | The location of a place relative to other places | 52 | |
| 3645838588 | Sovereignty | The ability of a state to govern its territory | 53 | |
| 3645838589 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control of its own crap | 54 | |
| 3645844808 | The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) | An area (usually 370 km) from the shore in which a state has rights to explore, exploit, and manage natural resources in the seas. | 55 | |
| 3645846586 | Thomas Malthus | Political economist that belived that humans would over populate and run out of food in the future | 56 | |
| 3645846587 | Types of Maps | A flat representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it (mental, is a representation of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows) | 57 | |
| 3645850102 | United Nations | An international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue and diplomacy. | 58 |
