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the encroachment of desert condition on masted zones along, the desert margins, where plant converand soils are threatened by desciration |
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cultural traits such as dress modes, develling, tradition, and institutions of usual small traditional communities |
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used to definer bussiness that prodive vast array of goods and services that support agricultural industry |
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| the belief that inanimat object such as hills,trees rivers, etc. posess souls and canhielp. |
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| rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place |
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| the widely used analogy describing the blanketlike effec of the atmosphere in the heating of the Earths' surface; shortwave insolation passes through the "glass" of the atmosphere "green- house" heats the surface is conerted to long-wave radiation that cannot penetrate the "glass", and there by result in trapping heat, which raises the temperature inside the "greenhouse" |
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a political-territorial system wherein a central goverment represents the various entitirs within a nation-state where allows these various entities to retain their own identies and to hae their laws, policies, and customs in certain spheres |
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| Industry that makes something that gain volume or weight during production. |
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| Economic activity in which the final product weighs less than its inputs |
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| fore that tend to unify a country- such as widespread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objective, and a common faith |
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| (nodal) Area organized around a node or focal point. The characteristic chosen to define a functional region dominates at a central focus or node and diminishes in importance outward. This region is tied to the central point by transportation or communication systems or by economic or functional associations. |
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| (uniform, homogeneous) or homogenous region is an area within which everyone shares in common one or mare distinctive characteristics. The shared feature could be a cultural value such as a common language, or an environmental climate. |
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the expansion of economics, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. the processes of globiation transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that varu across places and scales. |
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A line or border separating two countries
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| A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country |
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| A combination of fianeals and anglais, the french word for french and english |
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| global positioning system (GPS) |
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| A US satellite system that lets those on the ground, on the water or in the air determine their position with extreme accuracy using GPS receivers. |
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