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14 Cards in this Set
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What is a situation?
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The location of a placerelative to other places.
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What is a meridian?
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An arc drawn between the north and south poles.
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What is a parallel?
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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equater and at right angles to the meridians.
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What is longitude?
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The meridian that passes Royal Obeservatory at Greenwich,England.
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What is enviromental determinism?
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How the environment caused social development.
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What is cultural ecology?
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The georgraphic study of human environment.
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What is globalization?
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A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
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What is transnational corporation?
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It conducts research,operates factories and sells products in many countries.
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What is epidemiologic transition?
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It focuses on the distincive causes of death in each stage of demographic transistion
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What is epidemiology?
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It is a medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect a large number of people.
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What is a pandemic?
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A pandemic is a disease that occurs over a wide are and affects a very high proportion of the population.
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TB
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TB was one of the prioncipal causes of death in the nineteenth century during the Industrial Revolution among the urban poor.
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Malaria
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Malaria was nearly eradicated in the mid twentieth century by sparying DDT in the areas with the mosquitos carrying the parasite
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Who is Thomas Malthus?
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Thomas Malthus was an english economist, he was one of the first to argue that the world's population increase was far outrunning the worlds supply of food.
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