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20 Cards in this Set
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Spatial exchange |
When ideas, products, and even cultural traits can spread from one culture to another. |
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Colonization |
One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit |
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Diffusion |
Spread of ideas, inventions or patterns of behavior |
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Plate tectonic theory |
Idea that the lithosphere is made up of moving tectonic plates |
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Urbanization |
Mass movement of people from rural areas to cities; growth of city into surrounding countryside |
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Globalization |
The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world |
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Erosion |
Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation) |
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Weathering |
Wearing away of Earth's surface caused by wind, water, ice, or chemicals |
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Industrialization |
Development of a system which supports machine production of goods |
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Tectonic forces |
forces from within the earth, building up of earth's surface, based on plate tectonics resulting in mountains, plateaus, & valleys |
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Population statistics |
an aggregate of creatures, things, cases and so on. |
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Geographic contexts |
the locational circumstances of an event. |
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Concept of chronology |
when events are arranged in the order of occurrence |
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Colonization |
the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin. |
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Sectionalism |
he placing of the needs of one section of the nation over the needs of the whole nation. |
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Cultural adaptation |
the process and time it takes a person to assimilate to a new culture. |
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Abolitionism |
a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. |
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Temperance |
moderation or voluntary self-restraint |
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Methodology |
a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity. |
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Propaganda |
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
