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| A more powerful ethnic group forcibly removing a less powerful one |
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| Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a homeland |
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| Many ethnic groups within a state |
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| Two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determinations |
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| Loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
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| Legal attachment and personal allegiance to a country |
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| Territory that corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity turned into a nationality |
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| Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
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| The right for ethnicities to govern themselves |
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| An invisible line marking the extent of a states territory |
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| Effort by a country to make settlements to impose an influence in uninhabited areas |
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| legally tied to a sovereign state |
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| "Illegal act" of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit a party for power |
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| Independence from control of other states |
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| An area organized into a political unit and ruled by a government with control of it |
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| Power in the hands of central government officials |
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| The different modes of transportation that are possible |
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| Making something that gains volume or weight during production |
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| Making something in which the inputs weigh more than the final product |
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| Time involving several inventions that transformed the way in which goods were made |
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| Shipments of materials to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed |
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| New International Division of Labor |
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| Transfer of some jobs to LDC's |
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| Turning over the responsibility for production to independent suppliers |
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| Locations factors related to the costs of production inside the plant, land, and capital |
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| Deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and animals for economic or sustenance gain. |
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| Food for sales off of farms |
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| Farms are divided into a number of fields and each field is planted on a planned cycle |
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| The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agriculture techniques |
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| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture |
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| Farms close together who are forced to live off of small areas of land |
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| Herding of domesticated animals |
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| Large farm that specializes in one or two crops |
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| Reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization |
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| Method used for humid climates |
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| Slash and Burn Agriculture |
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| Cutting and burning of plants for agriculture |
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| Production of food primarily for consumption by the farmers family |
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| Preserves and enhances environmental quality |
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| The reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants, cutting stems and dividing roots |
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| Body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits |
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| Repetitive act of a group |
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| Small groups in rural areas |
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| Large societies that share certain habits |
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| Traditional ethnic religions |
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| Division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body |
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| Literal interpretation and a strict and intense adherence to basic principles of a religion |
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| Small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
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| Universalizing (Proselytic) Religion |
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| Appeals to be global, to appeal to all, wherever they live |
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| Land suitable for agriculture |
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| The # of People/Total land area |
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| The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
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| The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people in the society |
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| The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population |
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| The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
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| The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
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| Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
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| Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) |
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| The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society |
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| Average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, an medical conditions. |
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| Natural Increase Rate (NIR) |
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| The percentage growth of a population in a year (CBR-CDR) |
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| The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
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| Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
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| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) |
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| The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
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| Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |
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| Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
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| Migration from a location |
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| The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends |
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| Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors |
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| Workers who migrate to the MDC's in search of higher-paying jobs |
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| Migration to a new location |
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| Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location |
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| The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigraion |
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| Factor that induces people to move to a new location |
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| Factor that induces people to leave old residences |
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| Laws that palce max limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year |
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| People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution |
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| People who enter a country without proper documents |
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| Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
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| Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services |
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| A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
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| A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services |
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| Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services |
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| The potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service |
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| Area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. |
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| Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community |
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| The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement |
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| A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement |
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| Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
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| The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
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| The minimum number of people needed to support the service |
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| An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements |
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