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Relative location

Position of a place or entity based on it's location with respect to othet locations

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Pattern

The arrangement of objects on earths surface in the relationship to one another

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Malthusian theory

Population growth is growing too fast for food to keep up

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Population doubling time

Percentage growing by 70

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Pro-natalist

Encourages children

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Relative distance

Measures of social, cultural and economic relatedness or connectivity between 2 places

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Anti-natalist

Discourages people from having kids

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Arithmetic growth

Grows by the same amount in each time interval

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DTM stage 1

High birth rate, high death rate, population stayed the same

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DTM stage 2

Early expansion where population begins to rise

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DTM stage 3

Birth rates now fall rapidly while death rates continue to fall

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Low stationary phase

DTM stage 4

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DTM stage 5

Very low Crude Birth Rate increasing Crude Death Rate few young people

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Emigration

Leaving a place

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Epidemiological transition model

Describes changing patterns of population distribution in relation to changing patterns or mortality, fertility, and life expectancy

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Esther boserup

Believed that there will be no famine

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Exponential growth

Population per capita growth of population size

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Immigration

Going to a new country

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Neoliberal policies

Economic policies that promote free-market principles

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Post-fordist productions

Adoption by companies f flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that preform a variety of tasks

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World trade organization

Works to reduce barriers to international trade by reducing restrictions (tariffs) Ana enforcements (agreements)

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International Monetary Fund

Provide loans to countries experiencing balance of payment problems that threatens expansion of imp

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Rowstows economist theory

5 stages to become a core country

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Wallersteins world system theory

Divides countries of the world into 3 groups based on political power, social standing, economic and technology development (core semi-periphery, periphery)

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Renewable energy

Energy sources that are naturally replenished an on the human timescale

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Tertiary sector

Anything that has to do with the scale of exchange of goods

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Service sectors

Divided into 3 subdivisions consumer, business, and public services

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Secondary sector

Manufacturing/finishing making goods

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UN's sustainable development goals

Set of 17 goals adopted by the UN to end poverty, protect the planet, ensure peace, and prosperity

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Multiplier effect

Describes expansion of an areas economies base as a result of the basic and non-basic industries located there

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Mercoser

South American organization whose purpose is to expand trade, improve transposition, reduce tariffs among member countries

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Just in time delivery

When good arrive right when they are needed

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Microloans

Small loans provided to individuals or small businesses

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OPEC

Governments organization of 13 oil-producing countries that aim t coordinate an unify member countries

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Outsourcing

Process of moving industrial productions or services out of the country

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Primary source

Economic activities include anything to do with agriculture/ mining raw materials

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International division of labor

Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid, less skilled workers from developed countries to developing countries

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Small scale finance

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Quaternary sector

Activities that involve the creation and distribution of knowledge and informations

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Quinary sector

Highest level of economic activities involve desision making

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Economic

Land that is permanently populated by human society

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Dependency ratio

Percentages of people in a population who are either too young to too old to work and must be supported

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Demography

Study of populations (characteristic's)

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Crude birth rate

Number of live births occurring during a year per every 1,000 people in a given population in a given year

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Crude death rate

Number of deaths per year per 1,00 people in a given populations

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Carrying capacity

How many people in an area can support on a sustained bases

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Agricultural density

Measures the number of farmers per unit area of farm land

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Farmers/arabe land

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Arithmetic density

Population/land

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Total fertility rate

Estimate of average number of children born to each female in her childbearing years

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Redistricting

Which areas are grouped together for purpose of election

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Rate of natural increase

Annual growth of populations

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Population pyramids

Show the aga as sex demographics of a particular level scale

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Population distribution

Equally spaced apart randomly spread out or bunch in groups

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Population density

Number of people who live in a defined area

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Physiological density

Number of people per unit area of arable land

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Overpopulation

Area that cannot support that amount of people

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Life expectancy

Average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current social, economic, and medical conditions

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Infant mortality rate

Measure how many babies per thousand die before their first birthday

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Online mapping

The process of of using maps usually created through GIS on the internet

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Photograph interviews

Act of examining photographic images for the identifying objects and judging for their significance

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Sustainability

The practice of using natural resources responsibly so they can support present and future

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Travel narrative

An count of a journey that provides information about the ethnographic, biographic, and physical characteristics of an area

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Policy documents

Business rules and guidelines of a company that ensure consistency and compliance within the companies strategic direction

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Ethnocentrism

Feeling that ones own ethnic group is superior

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Ethnicity

Identity with a group of people who share a common identity with a specific homeland

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Ethnic neighborhoods

A area within a city containing members of the same ethnic group backgrounds

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Culture

A total way of life held in a common by a group of people including learned features

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Ethnic cultures

Group of people who share traditions of a particular homeland

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Dialects

Regional variety of a language distinguished by a vocabulary, spelling, and or pronunciations

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Cultural relativism

Understanding a culture on its own terms rather than judging it by the standards or customs of ones own culture

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Centripetal forces

An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state

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Cultural landscape

Cultural attributes of an area often used to describe a place

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Cultural divergence

Result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences

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Cutural convergence

When 2 or more cultures influence each other and become simiar with increased contact

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Creolization

The process in which 2 or more languages converge and form a new language

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Globalization

Increasing connection of economic, cultural and political characteristics across the world

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Contagious diffusion

The rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

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Expansion diffusion

When innovations spread to a new place while staying strong in their original location

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Centrifugal forces

Forces to attitudes that tend to divide a state

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Colonialism

The process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country which they have settled and taken over

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Remote sensing

The process of taking pictures of the earths surface from satellites

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Satellite imagery

Images of the earth taken from artificial satellites orbiting the planet

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Shape distortion

Misrepresentation of a shape, area, distance, or direction between geographic features compared to other true measurements

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Regional scale

Level of a specific region or geographical area this is larger than a single community or neighborhood but smaller than the entire location

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Satellite navigation system

GPS satellites broadcasting navigation signals

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Space

Physical gap or interval between objects

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Thematic map

Maps that tell a story about a place

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Toponym

Baseline name for a place

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Time space convergence

Process of travel ties as technology advances

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Natural resources

Something found within the natural environment this is accessible and economically valuable to humans

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Perceptual/vernacular region

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity

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Person interviews

A direct face to face conversation that collects data like a survey

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Place

Specific point on earth with humans and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other parts

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Possibilism

People are adjusting

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Reference maps

Maps that show where something is in space

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Regional analysis

Study of a specific region or area with understanding its characteristics and patterns

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Relative direction

Directions based on peoples surroundings and perception

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Online visualization

Compilation and publication of websites that provides geographical and textual information in the form of maps

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Assimilation

The process through which which people lose originally differentiating traits when they come in contact with another society

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