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18 Cards in this Set
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Agribusiness
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Commercial agricutlture characterized by intergration aof different stepsin the food processing industry, usually through ownership by large corperations
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Agricultral density
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the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land sutible for agriculture
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Agricutltral revolutinn
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the time when humans beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
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Animate power
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Power supplied by people of animals
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Animism
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Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes ahve discrete spirit and conscious life
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Annexation
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legalling adding land area to a city in the United States
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Apartheid
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Laws (no longer in effect) in south africia that physuically seperated different traces into different geographic areas
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Arithmetic density
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ythe total nunmber of people divided by the total land area
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Autonoumous religion
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A religion that does not thave a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates infomally
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balnce of power
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Condition of roughly equal strengh between opposing countries or alliances of countries
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Balkanization
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Process by which a state breaks down through conbflicts among its ethnicites
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Balkanized
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A small geograpnic area that could not successfully be organizerd into one of more stable states becasue it was inhabited by many ethnicites with comple, longstanding antagonisms towrard eachother
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Base line
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And east-West line designated under the LAnd Ordinace of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townshipis in the US
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Bsi Industries
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industriest hat sell their products or services primarly to consujmers outside the settlement
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Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
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Amount of oxygen required by aquatic bacteria to decompose a given load of organic waste, a measure of water pollution
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Biodiversity
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The number of species within a specific habitat
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Biomass fuel
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Fuel that drevies from plant material and animal waste
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blockbusting
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A process by which real estate ageents convince white property owneres to sell their house at low prices becasue of fear that black families will soon move into the ne
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