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| a system composed of nonliving or inorganic matter |
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| The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth |
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| All living organisms on Earth |
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| the system composed of living organisms |
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| the science of making maps |
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| the spread of something over a given area |
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| relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
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| the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
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| The geographic study of human-environment relationships |
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| fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
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| The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
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| The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
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| the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
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| the arrangement of something across earths surface |
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| the scientific study of ecosystems |
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| a group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact |
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| Environmental determinism |
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| a nineteenth- and early twentieth- century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. |
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| the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process |
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| Formal Region(uniform or homogeneous region) |
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| an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |
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| Functional Region(nodal region) |
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| an area organized around a node or focal point |
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| a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on earths surface |
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| Geographic Information Science (GIScience) |
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| the development and analysis of data about earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies |
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) |
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| a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data |
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) |
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| a system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers |
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| Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope |
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| Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) |
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| The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 longitude |
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| the region from which innovative ideas originate |
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| the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
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| all of the water on and near earths surface |
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| a meridian that for the most part follows 180* longitude. when you cross the international date line heading east, the clock moves back 24 hours, and when you go west, the calendar moves ahead one day |
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| the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0*) |
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| Earths crust and a portion of the upper mantle directly below the crust |
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| the position of anything on earths surface |
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| the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian |
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| a two-dimensional, or flat, representation of earns surface or a portion of it |
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| the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on earths surface |
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| an arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles |
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| a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians |
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| the regular arrangement of something in a study area |
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| a specific point on earth distinguished by a particular characteristic |
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| land created by the dutch draining water from an area |
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| the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives |
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| the meridian, designated as 0* longitude, that passes through the royal observatory at greenwich, england |
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| the system used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map |
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| an area of earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features |
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| the spread of a feature or trend through a bodily movement of people from one place to another |
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| the acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distance methods |
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| the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole |
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| the physical character of a place |
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| the physical gap or interval between two objects |
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| the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
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| the movement of physical processes, human activities, and ideas within and among regions |
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| the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
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| the name given to a portion of earths surface |
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| Translational corporation |
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| a company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells product in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located |
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| Vernacular region (or perceptual region) |
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| an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity |
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| the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
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| land suited for agriculture |
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| the total number of people divided by the total land area |
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| total number of deaths in a year per 1000 people living in the society |
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| total number of births in a year per 1000 people living 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 who are considered too young or too old to work ( under 15, over 64) compared to the number of people in their productive years |
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| the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
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| the number of working age people (15-64) divided by the number of persons 65 or older |
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| branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people |
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| Infant mortality rate (IMR) |
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| the total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 years old for every 1000 live births in a society |
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| the average number of years and individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. |
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| Natural increase rate (NIR) |
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| the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
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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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| the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
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| a bar graph that displays the percentage of a places population for each age and gender |
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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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| large scale emigration by talented people |
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| migration of people to a certain area 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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| permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors |
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| a term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of northern and western europe, usually from southern and eastern europe or from North Africa |
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| migration to a new location |
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| permanent movement within a particular country |
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| permanent movement from one country to another |
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| permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
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| Permanent movement within one region of a country |
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| form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location |
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| change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition |
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| the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
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| Factor that induces people to move to a new location |
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| factors that induces people to leave old residences |
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| in reference to migration, laws that place maximum 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 returm for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion |
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| Unauthorized( or undocumented) immigrants |
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| people who enter a country without proper documents. permanent movement undertaken by choice. |
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| the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of peoples distinct tradition |
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| the frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act |
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| culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
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| A repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
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| culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
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| a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
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| the contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes |
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| Creole or creolized language |
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| a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
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| Combination of german and english |
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| a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation |
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| a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
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| term used by french fro english words that have entered the french language; a combination of french and english |
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| Geographical boundary of a language feature |
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| a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
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| a system of communication through the use of speech , a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to mean the same thing |
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| a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago |
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| a collection of languages related to one another through a common ancestor long before recorded history |
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| a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary |
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| a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native backgrounds |
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| a language that is written as well as spoken |
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| people for whom a particular language is their first language |
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| the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents |
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| a language that mixes a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca with another language |
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| combination of spanish and english, spoken by hispanic americans |
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