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Definition: The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
Statement: Cultural traits are carried with the people who move
Example: Human migration |
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Definition: Individuals are affected by the principles and standards of the neighborhoods in which they live
Statement: The social environment of the neighborhood conditions people's behavior
Example: Peer pressure in a high-class residential district may encourage the residents to maintain their property |
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Definition: Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
Statement: Reflects cultural adaptation because cultural landscape is created in order to live in a particular climate.
Example: Garden and parkland landscapes constructed for aesthetic reasons which are often (but not always) associated with religious or other monumental buildings and ensembles |
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Definition: The systematic projection of locations from the Earth’s surface (3D) to a flat map (2D)
Statement: Map projections are created for different purposes, which affects the type of distortion, so using the correct map projection is essential for obtaining accurate information.
Example: Mercator Projection was designed for maritime navigation; Robinson Projection is made for equal area projection |
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Definition: A part of the globe delineated according to criteria selected to facilitate the study of patterns particular to the area
Statement: Each region considers the interaction of human and physical geography in relation to cultural, social, economic, population, environmental, and political topics.
Example: There are 10 world regions: North America, Middle and South America, Europe, Russia and the post-Soviet States, North Africa and Southwest Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania |
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Definition: An area of relatively low rainfall to the lee side of uplands
Statement: All mountains decrease precipitation on their lee; but rain shadows are sometimes not marked if moist air often comes from different directions
Example: east of the coastal ranges of Washington, Oregon, and California |
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Import Substitution Industrialization |
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Definition: A strategy for economic development
Statement: encourages industrial growth within a nation in order to reduce imports of manufactures, save foreign exchange, provide jobs, and reduce dependency
Example: The United Nations Commission for Latin America promoted import substitution policies in the 1960s, but they were not successful |
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Definition: All aspects of the economy that take place outside official channels
Statement: Includes subsistent activities (not part of GDP)
Example: Piracy, black market, drug trade, babysitting, lawn mowing, etc. |
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Definition: Ranking of countries based on three indicators of well-being: life expectancy at birth, educational attainment, and income adjusted to purchasing power parity
Statement: Reflects the social, demographic, and economic development of each country.
Example: The US is included in the top 20 countries for HDI. |
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Definition: The growth of interregional and worldwide linkages and the changes they are bringing about.
Statement: Increases glocal interaction and impact, not just economically, but culturally, politically, and environmentally.
Example: Historical expansion of economic interaction, from earliest regional trade patterns, through European (and other) colonialism, to present.
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Definition: The view that one colonies gain is only achieved by another colonies loss
Statement: Policies included prohibition of trade between colonies and limitation of manufacturing within colonies
Example: Current in early modern Europe |
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Definition: The control of the economic and political systems of one state by a more powerful state, usually the control of a developing country (LEDC) by a developed one (MEDC)
Statement: Strong elements of neocolonialism persist in the economic relations of the rich and poor countries
Example: American owned corporations |
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Definition: The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
Statement: Rapid urbanization creates primate cities, which magnify urban problems.
Example: Sao Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico |
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