Human Geography 121 Test 1

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cartography

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the body of practical and theoretical knowledge about making distinctive visual representations of Earth's surface in fthe form of maps

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cognitive distance

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the distance that people perceive to exist in a given situation

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GIS or Geographic Information Systems

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organized collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data that is designed to capture , store, update, manipulate geographically referenced information

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human geography

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study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people's relationships with their environment

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identity

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sense that people make of themsleves though their subjective feelings based on their everyday experiences and wider social relations

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Lifeworld

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taken for granted pattern and context for everyday living through which people conduct their lives

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Physical Geography

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subarea of the discipline that studies Earth's natural processes and their outcomes

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Regional Geography

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study fo the ways unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes

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Sense of Place

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feeling evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories that they associate with a place and the symbolism that they attach to it.

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Symbolic Landscapes

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representation of particular values or aspirations that the builders and financiers of those landscapes want to impart to a larger public

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Time-space Converg

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rate at which places move closer together in travel or communication time or costs.

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capitalism

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a form of economic and social organization characterized by the profit motive and teh control of the means of production, distribution, and the exchange of goods by private ownership

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colonialism

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the establishment and maintentance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate and alien society

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commodity chain

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network of labor and production processes beginning with the extraction or production of raw material and ending with the deliveryof a finished commodity

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core regions

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regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies and have high levels of productivity within diversified economies

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environmental determinism

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doctrine holding that human activities are controlled by the environment

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globalization

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increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through commmon processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change

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hearth areas

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geographic setting where new practices have developed and from which they have subsequently spead

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hegemony

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domination over the world economy exercised by one national state in a particular historical epoch through a combinations of economic, military, finanacial and cultural means

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peripheral regions

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regions with undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity

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semiperipheral regions

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regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited and dominated by core regions

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world empire

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minisystems that have been absorbed into a common political system while retaining their fundatmental cultural differences

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world system

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interdependent system of coutnries linked by economic and political competition

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age-sex pyramid

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a representation of the population based on its composition according to age and sex

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baby boom

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populations of individuals born between the years of 1946 and 1964

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demography

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the study of the characteristics of human population

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dependency ratio

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measure of the economic impact on the young and old on the more economically productive members of the population

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eco-migration

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population movement caused by the degradation of land and essential natural resources

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guest workers

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individual who migrate temporarily to take up jobs in other countries

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medical geography

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subarea of the discipline that specializes in understanding the spatial aspects of health and illness

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pull factors

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forces of attraction that influence migrants to move to a particular location

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push factors

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events and conditions that impel an individual to move from a location

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undocumented workers

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those individuals who arrive int he country without official entry visas and are considered by the government to be in the country illegally

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GPS

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systems of satellites that orbit Earth on precisley predictable paths, broadcasting highly accurate time and location movements

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IDP's

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the number of individuals who ar eunprooted within the boundaries of their own coutnriy because of conflict or human rights abuse