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State- A Country
Nation- A area inhabited by 1 ethnic group
Nation State- A country inhabited by 1 ethnic groups |
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| Colonialism and Imperialism |
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Definition
Colonialism- The movement of people from one area to another for various reasons
Imperialism- The take over of a area by another country or group for raw materials, land, or glory. (God, Gold, Glory) |
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| Decolonization and Independent |
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Definition
Newly independent colonies face 2 problems:
1) colonizers did not break country according to tribal area leading to ethnic tension
2)Economy is geared to the extraction and possibly the refinement of raw materials, no jobs past 2nd tier |
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Definition
Compact-A country whoose capital is in the center and boudary is the same distance from capital; i.e. Kenya
Elongated-A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape.
Perforated-A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state; i.e. South Africa
Landlocked-A Country with no access to the ocean because of a intervening country; i.e. Switzerland
Fragmented-A state that is not contiguous whole but rather separated parts; I.e. Indonesia |
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| International Organizations |
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Definition
United Nations (UN), North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), European Union (EU), Supranational organization, Warsaw pact, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), Commonwealth of independent states (CIS), Organization on
security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Organization of American States (OAS), and
African Union (AU). |
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Term
| Neolithic Agricultural Revolution |
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Definition
-Hunters and gatherers, domestication, Neolithic (or first)
-Crop rotation, vegetative planning, seed agriculture, agricultural hearths |
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Term
| Second Agricultural Revolution |
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Definition
-substance agriculture, commercial agriculture, planned agricultural economies,
labor intensive and capital intensive, prime agricultural land, and agribusiness |
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Term
| Land use/land cover charge, irrigation, conservation (desertification, deforestation) |
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Definition
-shifting cultivation, slash and burn agriculture, swidden, fallow, pastoral
nomadism, extensive and intensive substance agriculture, animal husbandry,
transhumance, wet rice, sawah, paddy, chaff, threshed, winnaved, hull, double
cropping, plantations. |
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Term
| Modern Commercial Agriculture |
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Definition
-spatial organization and diffusion of Industrial agriculture
-mixed crop and livestock farming, livestock ranching, dairy farming, milkshed,
winterfeed, commercial grain farming, spring wheat, reaper, combine, feed lots,
Mediterranean agriculture, horticulture, commercial gardening and fruit farming,
truck farming. |
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Term
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Definition
-cottage industry
-growth and diffusion of industrialization |
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Term
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Definition
-spatial organization of world economy
-textile, situation factors, bulk-reducing industry, bulk-gaining industries,
footloose industry, agglomeration economies, ancillary activities, cumulative
causation, deglomeration, and break-of-bulk point |
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Term
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Definition
-site factors, labor-intensive industries, right-to-work laws and right-to-work
states, maquiladora, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), new
international division of labor, transnational corporations, outsourcing,
sweatshops, Fordist, Post-Fordist, Just-in-time delivery. |
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Term
| Development and Character of cites |
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Definition
-Origin of cities
-Rural-urban migration and urban growth
-Global cities and megacities
-Models of internal city structure
-Changing employment mix and demographic/social structures |
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Term
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Definition
| -Market area, hinterland, range, Market-area analysis |
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Term
| Gravity Model and Models of urban systems |
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Definition
-rank-size rule, primate city rule, and periodic markets
-offshore, financial services, back-office functions, basic industries, economic
base, nonbasic industries, multiplier effect, postindustrial society. |
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Term
| Settlement patterns associated with major agricultural types |
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Definition
-clustered rural settlements
-dispersed rural settlements
-enclosure movement |
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Term
| Models of internal city structures |
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Definition
-Concentric zone model, sector model, and multiple-nuclei model
-zone of transition, nodes, census tracts, social area analysis |
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Term
| Uneven development, ghettoization, and gentrification |
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Definition
-Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status
-filtering, redlining, urban renewal, public housing. |
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Term
| Political organization of urban areas |
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Definition
-annexation, central city, urbanized area, Metropolian Statistical Area (MSA),
Micropolitan Statistical Area.
-Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA)
-Perimary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA)
-megalopolis, council of government (type), federation system, consolidators |
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Term
| Urban planning and design |
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Definition
-peripheral model, edge cities, density gradient, suburban sprawl, greenbelts,
zoning ordinances, smart growth |
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Term
| Changing roles of energy and technology |
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Definition
-animate power, inanimate power, fossil fuels, biomass fuels, nonrenewable
energy, proven reserves, potential reserves, Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Counties (OPEC), Nuclear power and fusion, fission, radioactive waste. |
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Definition
-pollution, air pollution, greenhouse effect, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs),
acid deposition, acid precipitation, photochemical smog, sanitary landfills |
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Term
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Definition
-Geothermal energy
-Wind power and forms
-Hydroelectric power
-Ubiquitous
-Solar energy systems
-Photovoltaic cells
-Recycling |
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Definition
-preservation
-conservation
-biodiversity |
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Definition
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