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7369441193	Geographic Scale	relationship between portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole	0
7369446650	Globalization	the process of countries becoming more open to foreign trade and investment	1
7369464598	Transnational Corporation	A corporation reaching beyond or transcending national boundaries	2
7369472478	Space	The physical gap or interval between two objects	3
7369475697	Distribution	The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.	4
7369493415	Density	The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area	5
7369493416	Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas originate	6
7369503025	Concentration	The spread of something over a given area.	7
7369507769	Patterns	Reoccuring arrangements	8
7369507843	Connection	Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.	9
7369510188	Accessibility	the relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place	10
7369532420	Spatial Association	the degree to which things are similarly arranged in space	11
7369545145	Diffusion	The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time	12
7369551560	Relocation Diffusion	spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another	13
7369555258	Expansion Diffusion	spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process	14
7369563419	Hierarchical Diffusion	the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places	15
7369570394	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.	16
7369576056	Stimulus Diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.	17
7369580389	Absolute Distance	Exact measurement of the physical space between two places.	18
7369594663	Cognitive Distance	The distance that people perceive to exist in a given situation	19
7369599809	Distance Decay	decline of activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin	20
7369608413	Space-time Compression	describes the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place	21
7369614355	Network	A chain of communication that connects places	22
7369617911	Uneven Development	The gap in economic conditions between regions because of globalization of the economy.	23