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42 Cards in this Set
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Parallel lines across the globe from 0 latitude to 90NandS
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Latitude
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Protect downwind side of a topographic barrier with respect to winds the flows across it
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Leeward
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Angular distance 0-80 east or west ; passes through Greenwich observatory.
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Longitude
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Acquition of gold and silver and maintaining favorable trade balance.
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Mercantilism
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Mixed; person of mixed white and amerindian ancestry
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Mestizo
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Change in residence intended to be permenant
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Migration
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Belief in worship of a single God
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Montheism
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mixed African and European ancestry
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Mulatto
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Group of tight knit people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and shared cultural attributes
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Nation
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A valued element in the environment which includes minerals, water, vegetation soil.
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Natural Resource
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The standard measure at sea
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Nautical Mile
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small or large area where supply of water transforms desert into green cropland.
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Oasis
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Fall setting of the sun; Western
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Occidental
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means to rise; sunrise
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Oriental
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group of countries extending clockwise from New Zealand to Chile that shares: face pacific ocean, high levels of economic development, urbanization. imports and exports move across Pacific waters
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Pacific Rim
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Outbreak of disease that spread worldwide
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Pandemic
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landmass that consists of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica that existed until the Mesozoic era.
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Pangaea:
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Narrow finger like stretch of land that extends from main landmass into the sea
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Peninsula
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people who lived in middle and south America in serfdom to a wealthy landowner.
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Peon
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Income, production, or some other measure given per individual.
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Per Capita
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Journey to a religious place with one or a group of people
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Pilgrimage
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Bonded plate portions of the Earths mantle and crust averaging 60 miles.
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Plate tectonics
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migration stimulated by conditions in the source area that drives people away
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Push-Pull concepts
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Vertical distance between the lowest and highest elevation in a certain area.
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Relief
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Tropical grassland containing widely spaced trees or tropical wet dry climate
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Savanna
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The ratio of map distance to ground distance.
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Scale
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tropical rain forest
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Selva
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Farmers pay rent for the land they farm by giving the landlord share of the annual harvest
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Sharecropping
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Cultivation of crops in recently cut and burned tropical forest clearing. known as slash and burn
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Shifting Agriculture
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Politically organized territory ran by sovereign government, must contain permanent resident, organized economy,function internal circulation system
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State
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Semiarid grassland, short grass prairie
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Steppe
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existing on minimal necessities to sustain life
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subsistence
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transformation of a hillside or mountain slope into steep horizontal fields for cultivation
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Terracing
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State whose government is under control of a ruler under a group of religious people
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Theocracy
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increases nearness of places as modern transportation reduces the time between them
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Time Space convergence
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cultural borrowing when different cultures of approx equal complexity and technology comes in close contact
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Transculteration
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a seismic sea wave of gigantic proportions which causes coastal devastation
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Tsunami
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Non-rural area suburban appendages
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Urban Metropolitan area
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open grassland in S .African plateau, mixed with shrub at lower elevations
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Veld
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the upper level of saturation when rain falls through the pores in soil and rock .
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Water Table
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upwind side of a barrier that faces the wind that flows across it
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Windward
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seasonal reversal of wind in certain parts of the subtropic and lower middle latitudes.
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monsoon
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