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81 Cards in this Set
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Land Hemisphere
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Physiography
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means land description. includes lands natural features on earth's surface, including landforms, climate, soils, vegetation, and water bodies.
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Infrastructure
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the foundations of a society
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Local Functional Specialization
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(hallmark of europes economic geography) Particular people in particular place focus on on production of particular goods and services
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The Isolated State
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location of agricultural activities in a commercial economy. a process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into concentric rings around the a central market city
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Model
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idealized representation of reality built to demonstrate its most important properties
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Industrial Revolution
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social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce and especially in manufacturing and urbanization that resulted from technological innovations and specialization
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Nation-State
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a country whose population possesses a substantial degree of homogeneity and unity
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Nation
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legally a term encompassing all citizens of a state
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Centrifugal forces
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forces that tend to divide an economy
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Centripetal forces
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forces that bind and unite a country together
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Indo-European language family
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language family that dominates the european geographic realm. most widely dispersed globally
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Complementarity
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Exists when 2 regions, through exchange of raw materials and products, can satisfy each others demands
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Transferability
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capacity to move a goos from one place to another at a bearable cost
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Intervening opportunity
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in trade or migration flows, the presence of nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes attractiveness of sites further away
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Primate city
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a country's largest city
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Supranationalism
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a venture involving 3 or more states to promote shared objectives
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Devolution
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process where regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government
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Four Motors of Europe
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France, Germany, Spain, and Italy
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Regional state
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a 'natural economic zone' that defies political boundaries
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Site
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the internal local attributes of an urban center
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Situation
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the external local attributes of an urban center
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Conurbation
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term used to identify a large multi-metropolitan formed by the coalescence of two or more major urban areas
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Landlocked location
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dont be a dumbass
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Break-of-bulk
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location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another
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Entrepot
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place where goods are imported, stored, and transhipped
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Shatter Belt
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region caught between stronger, colliding external cultural-political forces
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Balkanization
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fragmentation of a region into smaller, ofter hostile political units
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Exclave
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a bounded (non-island) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies seperated from it by the territory of another state. (alaska)
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Irredentism
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policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a state aimed at a community of its nationals living in a neighboring state
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cultural pluralism
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society in which 2 or more population groups, each practicing its own culture, live adjacent to one another without mixing inside a single state
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physiographic province
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physically homogeneous regions
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Rain shadow effect
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relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges caused by orographic percipitation
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migration
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all those damn wetbacks without their greencard
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push/pull factors
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idea that migration flows are simultaneously stimulated by conditions in the source area and the attractiveness of the destinations.
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sunbelt
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name given to southern tier of the US
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American Manufacturing Belt
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North America's core-region, corners are boston, milwaukee, st. louis, and baltimore
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Megalopolis
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lower-cased-synonym to conurbation
capitalized-refers to metropolitan corridor along northeastern seaboard, us. north of boston to south of D.C. |
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Central Business District (CBD)
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downtown heart of the central city
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Inner City
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just beyond CBD
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Ghetto
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Where you can find all them porch monkies
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Edge City
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still significant concentration of urban activities. some even equal to CBD
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Mosaic culture
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many homogeneous groups that form a community
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productive activities
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major components of spatial economy.
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economies of scale
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large scale production, cost of manufacturing is low
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rustbelt
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name for the aging manufacturing belt
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Postindustrial economy
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emerging economy, where traditional industry is increasing being eclipsed by technology
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technopole
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planned techno-industrial complex that manufactures products of post-industrial informational economy
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ecumene
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habitable portions of the earths surface where permanent human settlements have arisen
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pacific rim
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far-flung group of countries and parts of countries that share the following criteria: they face the pacific ocean, they evince relatively high level of economic development, industrialization and urbanization.
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Mental maps
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spatial perspective
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description and explanation of the patterns of human activity on this earth
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scale
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geographic realm
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basic spatial unit in our world regionalization scheme
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transition zone
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line that is a gradual shift rather than a sharp break to seperate geographic entities
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regional concept
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geographic study of regions
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absolute location
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what it sounds like it means
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relative location
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formal region
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region marked by certain degree of homogeneity. aka uniform region or homogeneous region
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spatial system
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components and interactions of a functional region
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Hinterland
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'country behind'
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functional region
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region that focuses more on its central node
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natural landscape
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no shit
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continental drift
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Is this 7th grade geography?
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tectonic plate
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no comment
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pacific ring of fire
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zone of crustal instability along tectonic plate boundaries
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ice age
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glaciation
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repeated advances of continental ice sheets
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interglacial
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ice sheet contractions
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desertification
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process of desert expansion into neighboring steppelands as a result of human degradation of fragile semi-arid enviroments
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global climate change
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occurs naturally in cycles
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population distribution
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urbanization
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cultural landscape
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land modified by humans, forming a unity between the 2
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state
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politically organized territory by a sovereign gov't
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european state model
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state consisting of a legally defined territory inhabited by a population governed from a capital city by a rep. gov't
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development
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growth of national states
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core-periphery relations
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the contrasting spatial characteristics of, and linkages between, the have (core) and have-not(periphery) components of a national or regional system
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core area
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the national heartland of a nation
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regional disparities
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spatial unevenness in standard of living
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globalization
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increase in economic and cultural integration around the world
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