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Angiosperms
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Plants whose seeds are encased in fruit
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Animism
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The belief that inanimate objects, such as hills, rocks, rivers, and other elements of the natural landscape possess souls and can help as well as hinder human efforts on Earth
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Antecedent Boundary
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A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area
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Anthropogeographic boundaries
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political boundaries that coincide substantially with cultural discontinuities in the human landscape, such as religious or linguistic transitions
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Apartheid
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Literally, "apartness". (segregated)
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Aquaculture
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The use of a river segment or an artificial body of water such as a pond for the raising and harvesting of food products, including fish, shellfish, and even seaweed.
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Arable
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Literally, cultivable. Land fit for cultivation by one farming method or another.
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Area
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A term that refers to a part of the Earth's surface with less specificity than region.
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Areal Interdependence
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A term related to functional specialization. When one area produces certain goods or has certain raw materials or resources and another area has different resources/goods; they satisfy their requirements by exchanging.
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Arithmetic Population Density
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The population of a country/region expressed as an average per unit area. The figure is derived by dividing the pop. of the area by the # of sq. kilometers/miles that make up the unit
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Aryan
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From the Sanskrit Arya ("noble"), a name applied to an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European languagfe and who moved into northern India from the northwest
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Ashkenazim
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One of the two main ethnic groups within Jewish culture eventually settling in Central Europe
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Assimilation
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The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
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Australopithecus
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Early hominid species dating to 4-5 million years ago; branches survived the Pliocene climate changes in Africa
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