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| About boundaries, disputes, elections, alliances, and administration/control |
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| An independant political unit |
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| A culturally distinct group of people |
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| Types of Boundaries: Antecedent |
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| Used before settlement, oftentimes to sell |
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| Types of Boundaries: Natural |
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| Types of Boundaries: Geometric |
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| Defined by law; latitude/longitude |
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| Types of Boundaries: Functional |
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| Don't find a reason to cross. |
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Positional
Territorial
Resources |
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| Fish within 200 mi past coast. Was used to set boundaries of the water |
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| Study of the location, distribution and spatial organizations across the world. |
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| Gross National Product. GDP + income received. |
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| Gross Domestic Product. Total value of all goods and services produced. |
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| Economics Systems: Subsistence |
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| Goods and services created for the use of producers and kinship groups. Ex. Amish |
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| Economic Systems: Commercial |
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| Freely marketed goods and services. Most Prevalent. |
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| Economic Systems: Planned |
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| Goods and services producers exhibit degrees of control. Controlled by gov. |
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| Aspects of our own commercial economy that are planned are : |
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| FDA, Lottery, Alcohol (Regulations) |
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| Economic activities: Primary sectors |
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| Economic activities: Secondary sectors |
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| Processing of manufacturing. |
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| Economic activities: Tertiary sectors |
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| Sales; most people work here |
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| Economic activities: Quaternary sectors |
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| Research development/management. |
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Labor Supply
Transportation/Accessibility
Size of Products
Raw Materials Needed
Incentives/Concessions
Receptiveness/Demand
Infrastructures
Agglomeration
(Location for mutual benefit)
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| High Tech Consideration: Footloose |
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| Good labor and good money can be found anywhere. |
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| High Tech Consideration: Major universities |
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| High Tech Consideration: International Airports |
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| Venture capital, good life style |
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| Mid 1800s, concentric rings of land use. As rent goes up, value and the quality of land goes down. Involves use, cost, and distance. |
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| Examples of Agglomeration |
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| Wallstreet and Hollywood. |
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Shape
Size
Function
Spacing
Location
Rank
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| How our form has changed through the years: |
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| Concentric (1925) to Sector to Multiple Nuclei model (Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman) to Peripheral (highways and commuting) |
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| Christallers Central Place Theory |
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| 1933. Flat/Plain. Hexagonal shapes evenly seperating cities with the bigger cities in the middle of the hexagons. |
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| 1960. Suburbanization. Land Value/Distance Graph: Land value decreases as distance increases. |
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| Constant stretch of urban development. |
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| Factors that lead to suburbanization |
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| Environmental impact of suburbanization |
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| Fuel inefficient cars, long distances |
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| A naturally occurring exploitable material that a society perceives to be useful |
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| The ability to do work. Master of all resources. |
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| Characteristics of Resources |
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Availability
Reliability
Portability
Cost
Environmental Impact
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| Alternative Energy Sources |
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| Nuclear, solar, wind, hydro. |
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| World Reserves of energy in: |
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Physical (Temp/Rain etc.)
Cultural (Lifestyle through the ages)
Economics (Employment, import/export)
Natural Resources |
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| Pros of Shade Grown Coffee |
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| Better for the environment. |
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| Originated by the churches in Europe and N. America to help poverty stricken villages. Opposes the exploitation of coffee pickers. |
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| Top Producer of Coffee/Top consumer/Created |
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