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| Human, Physical, Rgional, Environmental Geography |
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| Religion, Language, Population Distribution, Urbanization, Econmica Well-being |
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| "Building Blocks" of regional geography |
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| place, border, scale, interdependence, boundary, frontier, regionalism, sectionalism, globalization. |
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| Vernacular boundaries include |
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| sexuality, class, race, ethnicity |
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| people from onr country claim solidarity with people of simialr ethnic or cultural background in another country. |
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| Global Dynamics examine change in physical processes such as |
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| plate tectonics, atmospheric circulation, climate change, ecosystems. |
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| peripheral regions are characterized by |
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| dependent and disadvantageous trading relationships, by inadequate or obsolete technologies, and by underdeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity. |
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| between core and peripheral |
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| high wages, diversity, high tech |
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| Combines physical and Human geography - produce territories with distinctive land scapes and cultural attributes. |
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| large-sized territories (countries, provinces) |
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| specific geographic setting with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes |
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| a geographer's classification of individual places or areal units |
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| a region with a high degree of homogeneity in terms of particular distinguishing features (income, religion) |
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| an area characterized by a coherent functional organization of human occupancy |
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| strong feelings of collective identity shared by religious or ethnic groups that are concentrated within one particular region |
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| Supranationalism organization |
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| group of individual states with a common economic/political goal that diminishes, to some extent, individual state sovereignty in favor of the collective interests in the memborship (EU) |
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| people, places, and regions, whose participants in transnational industry, modern telecommunications, materialistic consumption, and international news and entertainment is limited. |
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| a vision of development that seeks a balance among economic growth, environmental impacts, and social equity |
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| the main city is several times larger than the second largest city |
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| leading global markets, advanced business services, concentration of corporate headquarters, site of nongovernmental organizations, powerful media organizations |
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| Primary activites deal with |
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| natural resources of any kind |
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| secondary activities deal with |
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| manufacturing or processing |
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| teritary activities involve |
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| the sale and exchange of goods and services |
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| Quaternary Activities deal with |
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| handling and processing knowledge and information |
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| dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, have a high level of productivity |
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| a group of minisystems that join into a larger one, but maintain cultural differences |
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| a society with a single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy |
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| world empires characterized by large scale irrigation schemes as the basis for agricultural productivity |
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| hinterland of a town is its |
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| sphere of economic influence |
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| the spatial dispertion of a previously homogenous group |
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| domination over the world economy, by using economic, military, financial, and cultural means |
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| economic and political strategies by which powerful states in core economies indirectly maintain or extend their influence over other areas or people |
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| promotes a reduction in the role and budget of government |
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| 5 key factors in globalization |
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| new international division of labor, an internationalization of finance, a new technology system, the homogenization of consumer markets, and the proliferation of the transnational corporation |
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| slash and burn method of clearing land |
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| the extension of the power of a nation through direct or indirect control of the economic and political life of other territories |
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| cost advantage that accrue to individual firms because of their location among functionally related activities |
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| a society based on belief in equal social, political, and economic rights and privelages |
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