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| Increasing interconnectedness of people/places across the globe. Not becoming a single, global culture. |
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| Territory that exhibits a certain uniformity |
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| Economics/location relative to other places |
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| Spatial expressions of cultural identity (Dialects) |
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| Relationship btwn regions and Globalization |
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| Regions serve as filters through which places interact |
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| Angle at which solar radiation strikes a particular place at any point in time |
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| Amount of Solar energy intercepted by a particular area of earth |
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| Air goes up over mountain causing precipitation |
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| Subtropical high pressure zone |
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| Regions of high pressure and descending air at about 25* north/south latitude and deserts |
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| Breakdown of rocks/minerals thru chemical rxn at earth's surface |
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| Physical/Mechanical force |
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| Convergent Plate boundary |
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| Towards each other. Destroying or thickening crust |
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| Away from each other. New crust develops in between |
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| Sudden release of energy w/in earth producing shaking of crust |
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| Low lying surface adjacent to stream channel formed by materials deposited by stream |
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| Tendency of flowing water to follow a sinuous course w/ alternating right and left hand bends |
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| Evergreen needle forest characteristic of cold continental climates |
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| Movement of carbon among atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere as a result of photosynthesis and respiration. Sedimentation, weathering, and fossil fuel combustion |
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| Vegetation type with sparsely distributed plants specifically adapted for moisture gathering/retention |
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| Chemical rxn that occurs in green plants in which CO2 and water are converted to carbs and oxygen |
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| Chemical rxn in plants/animals in which carbs/oxygen are combined, releasing water and CO2. Opposite of photosynthesis |
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| Broadleaf evergreen characteristic of humid tropical environments |
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| Annual number of births per 1000 ppl |
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| Annual number of deaths per 1000 ppl. Not effected by pop and can be misleading bc certain populations live longer |
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| Theory of changes in human fertility over time in relation to social, economic, and political factors |
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| Network of social and communication linkages that attract migrants to follow others who have previously migrated |
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| Difference btwn number of births and deaths |
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| Money that migrant workers send home |
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| Spreading of cultural attributes |
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| Culture that is handing down and preserves traditions |
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| Ppl who embrace innovation and conform to changing norms |
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| Pidgin language that has become mother tongue |
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| 2nd language held in common for international discourse |
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| Process of a regions soil becoming more desert like due to human land use. Over grazing/ Over cultivation |
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| hunting/gathering to agriculture |
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| Commercial that specializes in one or two crops |
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| An exchange of good/service that takes place w/o agreement of parties in a market. "Pollution" |
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| Source of chemical energy stored in formally living plants/animal tissue. Coal, oil, natural gas |
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| Electricity generated by water passing thru turbines at a dam |
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| Something useful that exists independent of human activity |
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| Capital Intensive Activity |
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| Large amount of capital is invested per worker |
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| Central Business district |
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| Traditional core of city where office building and retail shops tend to be concentrated |
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| Occupation and restoration of select urban residential neighborhoods by successful urban white collar workers |
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| Economic activities that don't occur appear in official accounts. Prostitution, babysitting, drug dealing. Exists out of necessity bc there is not a large enough formal economy |
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| High ratio of workers to invested capital |
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| Not enough jobs/housing opportunities. Often leads to squatter settlements |
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| High ratio of workers to invested capital |
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| Part of economy that extracts resources directly from the earth. Agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining |
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| Transforms raw materials into manufactured goods |
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| Serves primary and secondary sectors |
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| More cars/roads caused cities to decentralize |
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| An underdeveloped region that may offer potential for settlement |
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| Often result in political conflict often temporary. Nothing to do with language and culture |
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| Study of voting district and voting patterns |
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| state that has proved incapable of providing its citizens with either economic development or even peace/security |
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| Drawing of voting district lines in ways that include or exclude certain groups of voters so that one group gains an unfair advantage |
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| State (country) and group of ppl (nation) happens to match up. Extremely rare and Japan comes closest with 99% japenese |
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| Ability of state to govern its territory free from control of its internal and foreign affairs by other states. (American Revolution) |
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| Independent political unit that claims exclusive jurisdiction over a defined territory and over the ppl and activities within it |
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| Many cores all limited no one has too much power |
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| Process of progressively increasing the value of goods/services that a place is able to produce in order to enjoy or export |
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| Foreign Direct Investment |
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| Investment by foreigners in wholly owned enterprises that are operated by the foreigner |
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| Total value of all goods and services produced within a company |
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| A company's GDP plus any income that residents receive from foreign investments, minus any money paid out of the country to foreign investors |
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| Newly developed industries that probably that probably cannot compete with imports |
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| Law of Diminishing returns |
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| The tendency for productivity to decline after a certain point in time |
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| They make so much money on whatever per person |
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| A society with the bulk of its economic activity in the primary sector |
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| A society with a significant amount of its output from the secondary sector |
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| Society w/ the bulk of its economic activity in the tertiary sector |
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| Attempts to measure what goods or services a certain amount of money will buy at different places |
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| A group of countries that produces a common policy when dealing w/ other countries |
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| A customs union within which common laws create similar conditions of production |
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| A free trade area that enforces a common external tarrif |
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| An international territory having no internal tariffs but that give its members the freedom to set their own tarrifs on trade w/ the rest of the world |
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| A factory in mexico specializing in assembling items for export to the US market |
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| Supranational Organization |
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| All organization that exercises power over countries |
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| World Trade Organizations |
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