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| 113881757 | Agricultural density | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for aqriculture. | 0 | |
| 113881758 | Arithmetic density | the total number of people divided by the the total land area | 1 | |
| 113881759 | Base line | An east-west line designated under the Land Ordenance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States | 2 | |
| 113881760 | Cartography | The science of making maps | 3 | |
| 113881761 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area | 4 | |
| 113881762 | Connections | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 5 | |
| 113881763 | Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of the feature or trend throughout a population | 6 | |
| 113881764 | Cultural ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-enviroments relationships | 7 | |
| 113881765 | Cultural landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group | 8 | |
| 113881766 | Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct traditions | 9 | |
| 113881767 | Density | the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area | 10 | |
| 113881768 | Diffusion | the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 11 | |
| 113881769 | Distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 12 | |
| 113881770 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface | 13 | |
| 113881771 | Environmental determinism | A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. | 14 | |
| 113881772 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process | 15 | |
| 113881773 | Formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. | 16 | |
| 113881774 | Functional region | An area organized around a node or focal point. | 17 | |
| 113881775 | GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and display geographic data | 18 | |
| 113881776 | GPS | a system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and recievers | 19 | |
| 113881777 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope | 20 | |
| 113881778 | GMT | the time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude | 21 | |
| 113881779 | Hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate | 22 | |
| 113906033 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. | 23 | |
| 113906034 | International Date Line | An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day. | 24 | |
| 113906035 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. | 25 | |
| 113906036 | Latitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator | 26 | |
| 113906037 | Longitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°). | 27 | |
| 113906038 | Map | a two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it | 28 | |
| 113906039 | Mental map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. | 29 | |
| 113906040 | Meridian | An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles. | 30 | |
| 113906041 | Parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. | 31 | |
| 113906042 | Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area. | 32 | |
| 113906043 | Physiological density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 33 | |
| 113906044 | Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character. | 34 | |
| 113906045 | Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area. | 35 | |
| 113906046 | 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. | 36 | |
| 113906047 | Prime meridian | The meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. | 37 | |
| 113906048 | Principal meridian | A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. | 38 | |
| 113906049 | Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | 39 | |
| 113906050 | Region | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. | 40 | |
| 113906051 | Regional studies | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. | 41 | |
| 113906052 | Relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | 42 | |
| 113906053 | Remote sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | 43 | |
| 113906054 | Resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use. | 44 | |
| 113906055 | Scale | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. | 45 | |
| 113906056 | Section | A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections. | 46 | |
| 113906057 | Site | The physical character of a place | 47 | |
| 113906058 | Situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 48 | |
| 113906059 | Space | the physical gap or interval between two objects | 49 | |
| 113906060 | Space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to fiffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems. | 50 | |
| 113906061 | Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | 51 | |
| 113906062 | Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 52 | |
| 113906063 | Township | A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships. | 53 | |
| 113906064 | Transnational corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | 54 | |
| 113906065 | Uneven development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. | 55 | |
| 113906066 | Vernacular region | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultral identity. | 56 | |
| 113944748 | Agricultural revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 57 | |
| 113944749 | Census | A complete enumeration of a population | 58 | |
| 113944750 | CBR | The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. | 59 | |
| 113944751 | CDR | The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. | 60 | |
| 113944752 | Demographic transition | The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population. | 61 | |
| 113944753 | Demography | scientific study of human populations | 62 | |
| 113944754 | Dependency ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compares to the number of people active in the labor force. | 63 | |
| 113944755 | Doubling time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. | 64 | |
| 113944756 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | 65 | |
| 113944757 | Epidemiologic transition | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition. | 66 | |
| 113944758 | Epidemiology | Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and are produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality. | 67 | |
| 113944759 | Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. | 68 | |
| 113944760 | IMR | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society. | 69 | |
| 113944761 | 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. | 70 | |
| 113944762 | Medical revolution | Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives. | 71 | |
| 113944763 | NIR | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. | 72 | |
| 113944764 | Overpopulation | The number of a people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. | 73 | |
| 113944765 | Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. | 74 | |
| 113944766 | Physiological density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 75 | |
| 113944767 | Population pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | 76 | |
| 113944768 | Sex ratio | The number of males per 100 females in the population. | 77 | |
| 113944769 | Total fertility rate (TFR) | The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. | 78 | |
| 113944770 | ZPG | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. | 79 | |
| 113944771 | Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. | 80 | |
| 113944772 | Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 81 | |
| 113944773 | Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. | 82 | |
| 113944774 | Counter urbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | 83 | |
| 113944775 | Emigration | migration from a location | 84 | |
| 113944776 | Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends. | 85 | |
| 113944777 | Forced migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | 86 | |
| 113944778 | Guest workers | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. | 87 | |
| 113944779 | Immigration | migration to a new location | 88 | |
| 113944780 | Internal migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. | 89 | |
| 113944781 | Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. | 90 | |
| 113944782 | Intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 91 | |
| 113944783 | Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. | 92 | |
| 113944784 | Migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. | 93 | |
| 113949186 | Migration transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. | 94 | |
| 113949187 | Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another. | 95 | |
| 113949188 | Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 96 | |
| 113949189 | Pull factor | Factor that induces people to move to a new location. | 97 | |
| 113949190 | Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. | 98 | |
| 113949191 | 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. | 99 | |
| 113949192 | Unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents | 100 | |
| 113949193 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | 101 |
