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| 275965018 | Geography | study of the earth's surface | |
| 275965019 | Cultural Ecology | the geographic study of human-environment relationships | |
| 275965020 | Absolute location | exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | |
| 275965021 | Relative location | The position of a place in relation to another place | |
| 275965022 | Map projections | a way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface | |
| 275965023 | GIS- Geographic Information System | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | |
| 275965024 | GPS- Geographic Positioning System | a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver | |
| 275965025 | Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point | |
| 275965026 | Toponyms | Place name | |
| 275965027 | Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | |
| 275965028 | Housing Styles | may be influenced by immigrants and protection against weather Amazon Basin- high off ground, good ventilation | |
| 275965029 | Popular Culture | cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population | |
| 275965030 | Non-Material Culture | a society's ideas and beliefs | |
| 275965031 | Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | |
| 275965032 | Assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | |
| 275965033 | Transculturation | A near equal exchange of culture traits or customs | |
| 275965034 | Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one culture to another | |
| 275965035 | Cultural Transmission | the process by which one generation passes culture to the next | |
| 275965036 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. | |
| 275965037 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | |
| 275965038 | Thomas Malthus | an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834) | |
| 275965039 | Population Growth | increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state | |
| 275965040 | Population Density | number of individuals per unit area | |
| 275965041 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | |
| 275965042 | 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. | |
| 275965043 | Location Theory | a logical attempt to explore the location pattern of an economic activity | |
| 275965044 | Agribusiness | a large-scale farming enterprise | |
| 275965045 | CBR-Crude Birth Rate | the total number of live births in a year for 1,000 people alive in a society | |
| 275965046 | CDR-Crude Death Rate | The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. | |
| 275965047 | TFR-Total Fertility Rate | The number of births that 1,000 women would have if the current year's age-specific birth rate remained constant throughout their childbearing years | |
| 275965048 | IMR-Infant Mortality Rate | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 years old for every 1,000 live births in the society. | |
| 275965049 | NIR-Natural Increase Rate | the percentage growth of a population in a year computed as cbr - cdr | |
| 275965050 | Step Migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages | |
| 275965051 | Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | |
| 275965052 | Net-In Migration | more people immigrate than emigrate | |
| 275965053 | Net-Out Migration | if the number of emigrants exceeds the number of immigrants | |
| 275965054 | Language | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | |
| 275965055 | Isogloss | A line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features | |
| 275965056 | Pidgin | an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages | |
| 275965057 | Religion | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny | |
| 275965058 | Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | |
| 275965059 | Urban Sprawl | the growth of low density development outward from the edges of a city | |
| 275965060 | Maquiladoras | The term given to zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods. | |
| 275965061 | Deindustrialization | loss of industrial activity in a region | |
| 275965062 | Bulk Gaining | final product weighs more then input | |
| 275965063 | Bulk Reducing | final product weighs less then its input | |
| 275965064 | CBD-Central Business District | the downtown heart of the central city, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings | |
| 275965065 | Primate City | a city that ranks first in a nation in terms of population and economy | |
| 275965066 | Rank Size Rule | a rule that states settlements in a country may be ranked in order of their size | |
| 275965067 | Urban Influence Zones | Areas outside the city that are affected by it | |
| 275965068 | Metropolitan Statistical Area | area with a city of 50 thousand or more people, together with adjacent urban communities that have strong ties to the central city. | |
| 275965069 | Megalopolis | a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | |
| 275965070 | Megacities | cities with more than 10 million people | |
| 275965071 | World Cities | most important centers of economic power and wealth | |
| 275965072 | Agglomeration | the act of collecting in a mass | |
| 275965073 | Physical Boundary | boundary defined by a physical land mark like a river or a lake | |
| 275965074 | Perforated Boundary | Boundary that is pierced | |
| 275965075 | Frontier | an undeveloped field of study | |
| 275965076 | Gerrymandering | the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group, or incumbent | |
| 275965077 | Territorial Dispute | Any dispute over land ownership | |
| 275965078 | Positional Dispute | disagreement about the actual location of a boundary | |
| 275965079 | Colonization | the act of colonizing | |
| 275965080 | Nation | a politically organized body of people under a single government | |
| 275965081 | State | the way something is with respect to its main attributes | |
| 275965082 | Sovereignty | government free from external control | |
| 275965083 | Nation-State | A country who's population share a common identity. | |
| 275965084 | Race | people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock | |
| 275965085 | Ethnicity | an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | |
| 275965086 | Unitary State | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | |
| 275965087 | Federal State | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government | |
| 275965088 | Confederal State | virtually no power held by the central government (foreign affairs, defense, some taxation to pay for this), almost all power in regional or local government | |
| 275965089 | Centripetal | tending to move toward a center | |
| 275965090 | Centrifugal | tending to move away from a center | |
| 275965091 | Fragmentation | separating something into fine particles | |
| 275965092 | Supranationalism | a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives | |
| 275965093 | Devolution | the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | |
| 275965094 | Forward Capital | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory. | |
| 275965095 | Ethno-Nationalism | "us / them"; groups see selves as distinct, demand distinct territory |
