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19 Cards in this Set
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globilization
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a force or progress that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
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transnational corporation
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conducts reasearch, operates factories, and sells products in many countries
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distribution
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the arrangement of a feature in space
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density
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the frequency with which something occurs in space
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arithmetic density
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is the total number of objects in an area, commonly used to compare the distributionof population in different countries
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physiological density
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the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture
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agricultural density
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the number of farmers per unit area of farmland
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concentration
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the extent of a features spread over space
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pattern
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the geometric arrangement of objects in space
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space-time compression
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describes the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place
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distance decay
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contact diminshes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
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hearth
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the place from which an innovation ofrginates
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diffusion
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the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
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relocation diffusion
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the spread of an idea throught movement of people from one place to another
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expansion diffusion
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the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
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hierarchical diffusion
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the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons
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contagious diffusion
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is the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
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stimulus diffusin
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the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
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uneven development
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the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globilaziation of the economy
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