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| 13703283888 | Rimland Theory | Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest. | 0 | |
| 13703283889 | Heartland Theory | the belief of Halford Mackinder that the interior of Eurasia provided a likely base for world conquest | 1 | |
| 13703283890 | World Systems Theory | Theory developed by Immanuel Wallerstein that explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi periphery in terms of economic and political connections first established at the beginning of exploration in the late 15th century and maintained through increased economic access up until the present. | 2 | |
| 13703283891 | Buhdism | Meditate, tall buildings go towards sky | 3 | |
| 13703283892 | Hinduism | Large temple,Brahma,shiva and one other guy | 4 | |
| 13703283893 | Islam | 5 pillars, quaran face Mecca | 5 | |
| 13703283894 | compact state | ideally circular with capital at the center ~ Ex. Lesotho ~ Ex. Swaziland | 6 | |
| 13703283895 | fragmented state | 2 or more parts are separate from the state can be an island | 7 | |
| 13703283896 | Prorupted State | a compact state with a large projecting extension:sticks out | 8 | |
| 13703283897 | Perforated State | a state that completely surrounds another one | 9 | |
| 13717906589 | Geometric boundary | a fixed limit or extent that typically follows straight lines | 10 | |
| 13717906590 | superimposed boundary | a political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape | 11 | |
| 13764299955 | Van Thunen Model | The first ring is the town/city 2.dairying,vegetables,market gardens 3. Wood forest 4. Grain crops, hay fields 5. Meadows, grazing land | 12 | |
| 13764856331 | vernacular region | A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. | 13 | |
| 13764856332 | formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics | 14 | |
| 13769586254 | Where are the three main agricultural hearths? | Central America North western South America Western Africa South east Asia | 15 | |
| 13785724098 | Asian Tigers | the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. | 16 | |
| 13805591647 | agricultural sector | Primary sector:Natural resource harvesting Secondary:factory Tertiary:consumer Quaternary:scientific methodology Quanary: high-level decision making | 17 | |
| 13805808695 | Rostow's Model | five stages a country goes through in developing their economy through international trade 1.traditional society 2. Preconditions for takeoff 3. Take off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Hi mass consumption | 18 | |
| 13825647270 | remote sensing | the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it. | 19 | |
| 13825647272 | GPS | Using satalite System for determiningAbsolute location of places and geographical features | 20 | |
| 13825740084 | Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 21 | |
| 13826034211 | cultural landscape | The built environment of humans | 22 | |
| 13826050757 | Spatial Perspective | the essential questions and intellectual framework that looks "where" a specific phenomena locates, and searches for "why" the phenomena is happening there | 23 | |
| 13826061139 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. | 24 | |
| 13839369764 | Great Migration | Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs. | 25 | |
| 13839369765 | Census | the official count of a population | 26 | |
| 13839369766 | Voluntary Migration | Movement of an individual who consciously and voluntarily decides to locate to a new area- the opposite of forced migration | 27 | |
| 13849326959 | natural increase | Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths; does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements | 28 | |
| 13849332444 | Creole language | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue | 29 | |
| 13849355262 | lingua franca | A common agreed language of business in an area where people speak different languages | 30 | |
| 13849808901 | Edge City | A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. | 31 | |
| 13862167451 | relic boundary | they no longer exist as international boundaries. | 32 | |
| 13952445087 | Expansion Diffusion | originates in a central place and then expands outward in all directions to other locations | 33 | |
| 13952445088 | Hierarchical Diffusion | Originates in a first order location and then moves down to second order location and from these to subordinate locations at increasingly local scales | 34 | |
| 13952445089 | Contagious Diffusion | Begins at a point of origin and then moves outward to nearby locations,ex Arab spring | 35 | |
| 13952445090 | Stimulus Diffusion | Diffuses then stimulates the creation of new products, gets better | 36 | |
| 13952445091 | relocation diffusion | Begins at a point of origin and then crosses a significant physical barrier ex ocean | 37 |
