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A state with a long, narrow shape.
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| A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory. |
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| A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly. |
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| A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. |
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| Dispersed Rural Settlement |
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| A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. |
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| A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area. |
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| A repetitive act performed by a particular individual. |
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| A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
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| A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation, |
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| A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. |
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| A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area. |
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| A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment. |
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| A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood. |
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| A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. |
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| A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. |
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| A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another. |
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| A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. |
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| A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |
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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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| A gas used as a solvent, a propellant in aerosols, a refrigerant, and in plastic foams and fire extinguishers. |
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| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture |
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| A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. |
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| Geographic information system |
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| A collection of computer hardware and software that permits special data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed to the user |
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| A complete enumeration of a population. |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| A 19th- and early 20th- century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. |
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| (shortened) An arc that mainly follows 180 longitude. When crossed heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours. When heading east (to Asia) the calendar moves one day ahead. |
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