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23 Cards in this Set
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Absolute location |
exact position on Earth |
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Capitalism |
Economic system in which people are free make choices with little government interference |
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Climograph |
shows precipitation and temperature over a year in any given place |
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Columbian Exchange |
refers to the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture and disease between the New World (America’s) and the Old World (Europe and Africa) |
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Commercial Agriculture |
Crops intended to widespread wholesaler for distribution |
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Commercial industry |
buying and selling of goods from a manufacturer |
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Connectivity |
what connects us |
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Cottage industry |
business that employs workers in their homes |
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Delta |
triangular shaped area of land that is formed by water deposits at the mouth of a river |
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Democracy |
government authority is based on what the people want |
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Desertification |
arable land becomes desert land |
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Dictatorship |
System if government in which one person has full control |
It's a movie lol |
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Direct democracy |
system of government in which the people decide by voting |
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TODALS |
T= title, subject, place time O= orieirection, direction D= date, when the map was made A= author, who wrote the map L= legend, explains the symbols on the map S= scale, measurable unit which indicates the size of the map |
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Erosion |
the wearing away of the Earth’s surface by wind, water, glaciers |
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Formal region |
region based on some common feature |
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Function region |
region which is created by movement |
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Geographic Information System (GIS) |
large database of information which is used to make layered maps |
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Global positioning system |
uses satellites to determine coordinates |
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Globalization |
process in which connections around the world increase and cultures merge |
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Human Envirement Interaction (HEI) |
How do humans and the environment affect each other? |
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Island |
land that is completely surrounded by water |
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Isthmus |
narrow stretch of land which connects two larger pieces of land |
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