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| 12159477784 | Globalization | The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales. | 0 | |
| 12159486718 | Place | The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project: uniqueness of a location. | 1 | |
| 12159489380 | Sense of place | 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. | 2 | |
| 12159498040 | Relative location | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. Distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect relative location. | 3 | |
| 12159506777 | Remote sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g., satellites) that are physically distant from the area or object of study. | 4 | |
| 12159531233 | Geographic information systems | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user. | 5 | |
| 12159550804 | Expansion diffusion | 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. | 6 | |
| 12159553299 | Hierarchical diffusion | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas, with geographic distance a less important influence. | 7 | |
| 12159566021 | Contagious diffusion | The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person—analogous to the communication of a contagious illness. | 8 | |
| 12159568713 | Stimulus diffusion | A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place. | 9 | |
| 12159571033 | 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. The most common form of relocation diffusion involves the spreading of innovations by a migrating population. | 10 | |
| 12159579040 | Global positioning system | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. | 11 | |
| 12159675518 | Cultural landscape | The visible imprint of of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants. | 12 | |
| 12159581432 | Mental maps | Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space. | 13 | |
| 12159778608 | Total fertility rates | The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. | 14 | |
| 12159765340 | Culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. This is anthropologist Ralph Linton's definition; hundreds of others exist. | 15 | |
| 12159767048 | Culture trait | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. This is anthropologist Ralph Linton's definition; hundreds of others exist. | 16 | |
| 12159768483 | Culture complex | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. This is anthropologist Ralph Linton's definition; hundreds of others exist. | 17 | |
| 12159783420 | Crude birth rate | The number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population. | 18 | |
| 12159784124 | Crude death rate | The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. | 19 | |
| 12159789135 | Population pyramids | visual representation of the age and sex composition of a population graph | 20 | |
| 12159792991 | Life expectancy | A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | 21 | |
| 12159803830 | Emigration | The act of a person leaving a country or area to settle elsewhere. | 22 | |
| 12159805456 | Immigration | Migration to a new location | 23 | |
| 12159810180 | Forced migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. | 24 | |
| 12159815348 | Step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city. | 25 | |
| 12159819645 | Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 26 | |
| 12159821498 | site | The physical character of a place | 27 | |
| 12159822204 | Time-Space Covergence | 28 | ||
| 12159823642 | Census | the official count of a population | 29 | |
| 12159825264 | intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 30 | |
| 12159826113 | demography | The scientific study of population characteristics. | 31 | |
| 12159826558 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit area of arable land | 32 | |
| 12159829466 | The three largest population concentrations in the world | 33 | ||
| 12159832761 | population clusters in east Asian | 34 | ||
| 12159832762 | Demographic Transition Model | change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates | 35 | |
| 12159835550 | carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support | 36 | |
| 12159840139 | region of the world with the highest cbr | 37 | ||
| 12159840146 | dependency ratio | The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force | 38 | |
| 12159843770 | replacement-level fertility rate | the average number of children that couples in a population must bear to replace themselves | 39 |
