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26 Cards in this Set
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Ecumene |
Area that is inhabited. ex. Where the people are due to either farm or city. |
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Entrepôts |
port cities (colonial centres) ex. the link to the outside world and the world trading market |
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Scale |
Producing products for the world not only fo your own country.
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Diffusion |
Amount of time to adopt new technology |
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Agglomerative forces |
Regions with many industries ex. Widget and the gidget (better if it is close then far if they cluster together they can share forces. |
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Deglomerative Forces |
Industries that are together and the make the land prices rise. |
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Complementary |
Have a surplus then trade. Two places through an agreement have an exchange of goods that can specifically benefit each others demands. ex. Italy trading to get coal with food products. |
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Transferability |
The ease of transportation. The ease of with which a commodity may be transported or the capacity to move a good at a bearable coast. ex. Rivers, mountain passes, rail road networks, Advance in tech = cheaper |
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Intervening opportunity |
The presence of a nearer source of supply or opportunity that acts to diminish the attractiveness of more distant sources and site. |
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Supranationalism |
When a number of individual states come together to work together toward common goals. Italy, Germany, and Greece all transformed from separate entities into single countries. League of Nations and eventually the United Nations. NATO, NAFTA, the Arab League, and the African Union. |
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Devolution |
The process where by regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. |
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Politico |
Geographical transition (peripheral location) ex. The Pacific Realm |
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Equatorial Zone |
Closet the equator 10 N + 10 S of the equator, Extreme Heat area |
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Coral Reef |
Small sea creatures that waste onto the bottom of the ocean. |
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Panacea |
A solution or remedy for all difficulty's or diseases. |
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Littoral |
A settlement pattern near the coast line. ex. Brazil, Europe |
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Altiplano |
Were key to settlement patterns. Elongated basins along the mountains. Long mountain valleys. |
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El Nino |
West coast of South America causes the warm winter in Canada. Cold water for most of the year then then most times a warm south current happens. every few years the warm water doesn't replace the cold. Triggers climate change~droit or rain |
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Hyper urbanization |
Rural urban migration. (everyone moves to the cities) The movement to and clustering of people in towns + Cities |
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Barrios Favela |
Slumps - on the outskirts of the cities. |
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Growth pole |
location set of activities given a start will expand. widening activities of development. Growth Centre. ex. States with free trade |
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Primate city |
Disproportional large city in comparison to cities around it. ex. Paris |
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Site |
The physical attributes of the place it occupies. |
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Situation |
Its location relative o surrounding area. |
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High Island |
are seafloor-based volcanic peaks and ridges that protrude above the once surface sometimes thousands of feet. |
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Low Islands |
More common, Consist of coral and sometimes rise above sea level. |
