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authoritarian
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Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority especially the government at the expense of personal freedom.
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Immigrant/Emmigrant
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People who come to or leave a country to live
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Urbanization
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Growth in the proportion of people living in towns & cities.
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Biosphere
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The part of earth that includes all life forms
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diffusion
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a process ocurring when an idea or innovation spreads from one person to another & is accepted.
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culture
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All the features of a people's way of life
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equinox
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The time when both of earth's poles are at a 90 degree angle from the sun & the sun's direct rays strike the equator.
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solstices
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The time that earth's poles point at their greatest angle towards or away from the sun
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tropics
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warm low latitude areas near the equator
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atmosphere
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The envelope of gases that sorrounds a planet like earth
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exports
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goods leaving a country
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cottage industry
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usually small scale industry carried on at home
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fossil fuels
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energy resources formed from the remains of ancient plants & animals including coal, natural gas, & petroleum
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Imports
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goods entering a country
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nuclear energy
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energy released by anuclear reaction especially by fission or fusion
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geothermal energy
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heat of earth's interior
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primary economic activities
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takes natural resource from source
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secondary economic activities
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turns the source into something more valuable
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Tertiary economic activities
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A service
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Quaternary economic activities
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Gathers information
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subsistence farming
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farming that meets the needs of one family with little extra to sell
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innovation
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new idea that a culture accepts
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dialect
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a regional variety of a language
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perspective
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The way a person looks at something
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topography
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elevation, layout, & shape of the land
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degree
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Unit used to measure distances between parallels & meridians
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Nonrenewable resource
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Resource that cannot be replenished
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Renewable resource
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resource that can be replenished
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Acculturation
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Process in which in individual or group develops some of the traits of another culture
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Assimilation
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merging of cultural traits from distinct cultural groups by force
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Lingua Franca
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A langauge of trade & communication used by people who speak different langauges
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Demography
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Statistical study of human populations
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population density
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average number of people living in an area, usually expressed as persons per square mile
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monotheism
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the belief in one god
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polytheism
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the belief in many gods
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pantheism
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any religious belief that identifies god with the universe
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aquifers
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rock layers where ground water is plentiful
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aqueducts
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artificial channels for transporting water
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birthrate
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The number of live births per 1000 people living in a place
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World Trade Organization
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works to make trade between countries fairer
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United Nations
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Discuss international issues & voice concerns
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Purpose: Collective security. Established 1944
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Five themes of geography
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Location- Absolute or relative
Place- Human & physical characteristics of a location H.E.I.- How humans adapt & modify the environment Movement- PIG regions- Areas with some sort of characteristic that unifies the area |
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A countries nonmaterial culture
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Religion, language, values, & beliefs
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Types of boundaries:
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cultural
geographic geometric |
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Cultural Boundarie
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Based on culture traits
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geographic boundarie
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follows a feature of the land
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Geometric boundarie
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Followsgeometric patterns
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Cultural convergence
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Growing similarity between natural cultures
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Three regions
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Formal
Functional Perceptual |
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Formal region
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A region with a lot of common features than the surrounding areas
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Functunal region
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Made up of different places that are linked & function as a unit
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Perceptual region
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reflects human feelings & attitudes
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Measurement between meridians & parallels
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Degrees, equator & prime meridian
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General trend of the worlds population since 1950
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rising; logistic growth
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main elements of a map
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Distnce scales, compass rose, legend, title, & labels
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Drives the hydrologic cycle
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solar energy
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earth's rotation causes:
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day & night
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three processes that create landforms
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tectonic processes, erosin, & weathering
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Why did religions move from polytheistic to monotheistic?
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easier to pray to one god than many
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the idea of earth's crust as large moving plates
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plate tectonics
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The root language of many of the world's languages
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Indo-European
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Most spoken language
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Manderin
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where is the ring of fire?
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Sorrounding the Pacific Ocean
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What are psuh pull factors?
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push=leave
pull=come |
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Greatest agent of erosion
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Water
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Why is it important to conserve renewable resources?
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So they don't become nonrenewable
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What is NAFTA and what countries are involved?
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North American Free Trade Agreement. Cnanda, America, & Mexico.
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What does average per capita GDP of a nation refer to?
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Average national income of an individual
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Prophets of the worlds major religions?
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Islam-Mohammed
Christianity-Jesus Christ Judaism-Moses zoroastrianism-Zarathursta Buddhism-Buddha Hinduism-Brahma |
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What are the major monotheistic religions in order?
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zoroastrianism, judaism, christianity, & islam
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