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4946535600year0
4946539143live1
4946541489at2
4946545011younger brother3
4946551567cute4
4946553910pain5
4946615810parrot6
4946563392like7
4946592942play8
4946566706scared9
4946620101cage10
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4946627456swear words12
4946635647trendy13
4946574691glasses14
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4298565894ConsumerRetail, Private school, leisure, hospitality, health care, etc0
4298569808BusinessHelp other businesses: financial, professional1
4298570593Public servicesGovernment workers) Public ed, police, mail carriers2
4298571569Quaternary sectorServices that deal with information: software development, teaching etc3
4298572905Quinaryupper level executives, elected officials, decision makers4
4298574573Central Place TheoryWalter Christaller/ explains ideal location for a service. Ideal location is as close as possible to the largest number of potential customers.5
4298575284Rangemaximum distance people will travel to use a service. Eg: dry cleaners has small range. Disney has enormous range6
4298575889ThresholdMinimum number of customers needed to keep a service in business7
4298576582Rank Size Rulenth largest settlement is 1/n size of largest. Eg LA is ½ size of NYC. Chicago is 1/3 size of NYC8
4298576889Primate City ruleLargest city is more than twice the size of the next largest.Eg: Bucharest in Romania, Mexico City9
4298579285Global CitiesHeadquarters of major corp and financial institutions: NYC, London, Tokyo. Decisions affect world economy.10
4298580228Regional command and control centersstate capitols/ cities of regional importance.11
4298582621Dependent centerslowest tier of cities. Dependent on economy of the rest of the country/ Orlando, Las Vegas12
4298583219basic industriesbring money into a settlement from outside. Essential. Disney13
4298583771nonbasic industriescirculate money within community: dry cleaners, local restaurant14
4298585774Clustered rural settlementsCircular: New England, Germany long lot/ linear Mississippi river (French settled areas)15
4298587378Dispersed rural settlementsmore common with commercial ag. Closest neighbor may be a mile away.16
4298588092Enclosure movementProcess in UK whereby circular rural settlements were transformed into dispersed rural settlements. 1800's.17
4298588745Agglomeration Economiesclustering of similar types of services resulting in benefits to each. Eg. Specialist doctors' offices near hospital Eg: hotels and restaurants near Disney18
4298589976Density gradientgreatest land cost/ least space available is in CBD. Space increases/ cost decreases with greater distance outward.19
4298592417. Cities in Latin AmericaSome of World's largest20
4298593316What are 3 common characteristicsGrid pattern Cathedral in center Open plaza in center21
4298595284Large squater settelment in Brazil are calledfavelas22
4298597092in Spanish speaking countries they are calledBarriadas23

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3431596325Anglo~American landscaperegion in u.s. which English is main language0
3431599807taboosocial custom forbidding particular practice1
3431603206koshergenuine and legitimate2
3431608338dowryproperty or money brought by bride to her husband on their marriage3
3431615565uniform landscapespatial expression of a popular custom in one location similar to another4
3431622764adaptive strategieschanged, mix of productive activities5
3431627061languagemethod of human communication. consisting of the use of words in structured and conventional way6
3431634845literary traditionlanguage that's written as well as spoken7
3431637501official languagelanguage adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business8
3431647464dialectpracticular form of a language that's peculiar to a specific region or social group9
3431654417isoglossa line on a dialect map making the boundary between linguistic features10
3431660618standard languagea language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse11
3431667492language familycollection of languages that come from the same roots12
3431670546language branchgroup of languages that relate to family13
3431674097language groupcollection of language that is related to language branch14
3431682334Indo-eroupean languagea large, widespread family of languages in the same tree15
3431685725creolenative language mixes with another language16
3431692102nomadic warrior thesis1st pronto indoeuropean speakers where the kurgans near the border17
3431730887sedentary farmer thesis2000 years ago before the kurgans the first indoeuropean speakers lived I. east anatodia18
3431738781ideogramsa written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it19
3431741613language treemodel or graphic picture used to show the historic relationship between different language20
3431764084extinct languageslanguage no longer spoken21
3431765811monolingualspeaking only one language22
3431767823multilingualmore than one language is spoken23
3431770200isolated languagehas no relationship to any other language24
3431771848lingua francaa language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different25
3431771849trade languagespecial language used for trade26
3431774794EbonicsAmerican black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.27
3431774795pidgin languagedenoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a nonnative28
3431778343Spanglishlanguage combining words from Spanish and English29
3431788387toponymythe study of place names30

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5193443888Periodic Movementmotion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same0
5193446412RefugeeA person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster EX: Civilians leaving Israel due to ISIS1
5193451529Step migrationMigration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city2
5193467912TranshumanceThe seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.3
5193472868Transmigrationthe government-required relocation of people away from overpopulated core regions to less crowded areas. EX: Indonesia has a policy of moving people away from Java.4
5193483798Voluntary MigrationMoving by choice EX: Moving to Florida because it is nice5
5193490354AsylumA place of retreat or security EX: Insane Asylum6
5193494309Displaced Personsomeone who is forced to leave his or her community EX: Holocaust moved people out of there homes into camps7
5193563700Ravenstein's Law of MigrationMost migration is over a short distance8

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