6830774283 | rust belt | ![]() | 0 | |
6830821778 | sun belt | ![]() | 1 | |
6830827414 | church | ![]() | 2 | |
6830829885 | jewish temple | flat, plain, relatively simple structures | 3 | |
6830834489 | buddhist temple | ![]() | 4 | |
6830839094 | hindu temple | ![]() | 5 | |
6830844163 | muslim mosque | ![]() | 6 | |
6830949531 | New England salt box | ![]() | 7 | |
6830952753 | Charlseton single house | ![]() | 8 | |
6830957851 | deep south shotgun | ![]() | 9 | |
6830967304 | mid-atlantic | ![]() | 10 | |
6830975384 | tidewater south | ![]() | 11 | |
6831438443 | environmental determinism | the idea that our environment influences and controls our actions, lifetstyle, and culture | 12 | |
6831442572 | secularism | a strong movement away from all religions by a state | 13 | |
6831442573 | syncretism | the birth of a new culture trait from blending two or more cultural traits | 14 | |
6837346345 | remote sensing | the process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance, ex. satellites/GPS | 15 | |
6837351075 | place utility | the person's satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a place | 16 | |
6837365649 | friction of distance | the farther away two places are, the more energy is expended trying to maintain some communication between them | 17 | |
6837367806 | distance-decay | as distance increases/decreases spatial interactions between two areas will decrease/increase | 18 | |
6837383718 | globalization | the increasing interconnection of all regions in the world through politics, communication, transportation, marketing, manufacturing, etc. | 19 | |
6837392052 | cultural landscape | the unique landscape made up of all parts of a culture (material and nonmaterial) | 20 | |
6837397965 | sequent occupance | the concept that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cultural landscape | 21 | |
6837400102 | vernacular regions | popular regions named for the way people perceive them, people believe the place exists as part of their cultural identity | 22 | |
6837402262 | built environment | the material culture of an environment | 23 | |
6837404143 | irredentism | a situation where an ethnic group supports and seeks to reunite with its ethnic population in a neighboring country | 24 | |
6837408239 | federal sate | a type of government that gives local political units within a country a measure of power | 25 | |
6837425801 | unitary state | a type of government that allocates most of the power to a strong central government | 26 | |
6837427666 | confederation | a loose association of states organized for the purpose of retaining cohesion, ex. USSR | 27 | |
6837430214 | mentifacts vs sociofacts | menti: language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths, etc. socio: educational and political institutions, religious organizations, etc. | 28 | |
6837440963 | vertical integraton | contracts between farmer and producer in agricultural industry | 29 | |
6837442514 | conservation agriculture | a new of farming based on optimizing crop yields and profits without depleting soil, encouraging erosion, and harming the environment | 30 | |
6837448179 | developmentalism | the notion that every country and region will eventually make economic progress towards a high level of mass consumption if they only compete to the best of their ability within the world's economy | 31 | |
6837453262 | neocolonialsm | the periphery's continued dependency on the core even though they are no longer colonies | 32 | |
6837465923 | footloose | production of something that requires minimal transport costs | 33 | |
6837467812 | creative destruction | the reinvestment of funds in new, profitable ventures and regions that once were used to fun older, less profitable ventures and regions | 34 | |
6837473290 | offshoring | the practice of shifting production of a product to a 3rd party, sending service sector and production to work in other countries (where cheap labor) | 35 | |
6837476645 | outsourcing | the production of goods and parts abroad for the sale in one's own country | 36 | |
6837479731 | multiplier effect | provides insight as to how many non-basic jobs are created by one basic job | 37 | |
6837481426 | urban sprawl | the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas | 38 | |
6837481769 | urban renewal | the process of identifying properties in inner-city neighborhoods that are then acquired, cleared of residents and structures, and then handed over to private investors or public agencies for construction of parks, schools, or new housing | 39 | |
6837512143 | annexation | legally adding land area to a city in the US | 40 | |
6837513557 | apartheid | laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas | 41 | |
6837516846 | blockbusting | real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their homes at low prices in fear of black families moving into the neighborhood | 42 | |
6837525593 | cosmogony | a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of place the universe | 43 | |
6837528839 | economic base | a community's collection of basic industries | 44 | |
6837532704 | enclosure movement | consolidating small land holdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 1700s | 45 | |
6837535872 | fundamentalism | literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion | 46 | |
6837538503 | greenhouse effect | anticipated increase in Earth's temperature, caused by CO2 (from fossil fuels) trapping some of the radiation emitted by the surface | 47 | |
6837544122 | isogloss | a boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominates | 48 | |
6837547855 | possibilism | 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 | 49 | |
6837562158 | share cropper | a person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays the loan by turning over to the landowner a share of the cropse | 50 | |
6837577288 | sprawl | development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built up area | 51 | |
6837583541 | zoning ordinance | a law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community | 52 |
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