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1
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Reversing pattern of wind/weather that dictates seasonal
pattern of annual (summer) rains aka “wet ______” with
60+ days of rain followed by dry season

A

Monsoon

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The strict social stratification and residential segregation of people—specifically in
India’s Hindu society—on the basis of ancestry and occupation

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Caste System

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The subdivision of the British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan on 15 Aug., 1947

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Partition

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A national development strategy based on privatizing state-run companies, lowering
taxes; an overall deregulation of business activity

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Neoliberalism

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The sub-discipline that focuses on the characteristics, distribution, growth,
and other aspects of spatial demography

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Population geography

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A process whereby a rapid increase in births and decrease in deaths leads
to sharp population increase, followed by balance and decline

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Demographic transition:

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The number of births per woman

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Fertility rate

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A demographic indicator showing the ratio of males to females in a given population

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Sex ratio

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Proportion of population Proportion of population hat is either too old or too
young to be productive and that must be cared for by productive population

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Demographic burden

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A seismic sea wave that can attain gigantic proportions and cause coastal devastation

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Tsunami

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The PRC’s inter-basin water transfer scheme to deliver massive quantities of fresh
water from the Huang He and Chiang Jiang river systems to the cities of N. China that face severe water shortages

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South-to-North Water Diversion Project:

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A succession of Chinese rulers that came from the same line of male descent, sometimes enduring for centuries.
The last Chinese dynasty ended in 1911.

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Dynasty

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Imparting of a cultural imprint by the ethnic Chinese (“Han”), included migration of Han Chinese into
periphery of the country

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Hanification:

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The name given to four countries that began to rapidly industrialized and compete with Japan in the global
export markets in the second half of the 20th century = Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore

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Asian Tiger

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15
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Products of improved net worth

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High-value-added Goods

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An indicator of pressure on a country’s workers, the age-population ratio of (dependent) people who
are not in the labor force to those (productive) people who are in the labor force

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Dependency Ratio

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Chinese population control project est. in late 1970s that enforced a limit of one child per family of
ethnic Han Chinese; ended in 2016

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One-Child Policy

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Demographic imbalance of males outnumbering females, resulting from selective birth control

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Gender Imbalance:

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China’s global development strategy, announced in 2013, involving over a hundred infrastructure-
investment projects. Some serve to connect China to surrounding countries, others support infrastructure developments
within or between countries around the world. Overall, the BRI has significantly increased China’s global presence

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Belt and Road Initiative

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20
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The total variety of plant and animal species that exists in a given area

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Biodiversity

21
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The 50+ mil. ethnic Chinese who live outside of China, 2/3rds of which live in S. East Asia – many
maintaining links to China

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Overseas Chinese:

22
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The world’s fastest-growing national market economies as measured by economic growth rates,
attraction of foreign direct investment, and other key indicators

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Emerging Market

23
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A center that functions as a point of connectivity within a regional network or system

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Node

24
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The particular geographic layout of sovereign territory of a state, that influences its
internal functioning and external relations

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State Territorial Configuration

25
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A state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from
the geometric center to any point on the boundary exhibits little variance

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Compact State

26
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Territorial shape of a state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the
main body of territory

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Protruded State

27
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A state whose territory is decidedly long and narrow in that its length is at least six times greater
than its average width

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Elongated State

28
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A state whose territory consists of several separated parts vs. contiguous whole

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Fragmented State

29
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Map used by China to indicate Chinese claims to S. China Sea

A

Nine-dashed Map

30
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A calculated mix of tactics to achieve aggressive geopolitical objectives while avoiding direct war,
including military, diplomatic, economic, and intelligence means

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Hybrid Warfare

31
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The Ocean that surrounds Antarctica

A

southern Ocean

32
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A narrow marine transition zone girdling the globe around lat. 40 degrees S. that marks the
equator-ward limit of the frigid Southern Ocean & poleward limits of warmer oceans to the North (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian)

A

Subtropical Convergence

33
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The clockwise movement of water as a current that circles around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean

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West Wind Drift

34
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The study of flora (plant life) and fauna (animal life) in spatial perspective

A

Biogeography

35
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The zoogeographical boundary proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace that separates the marsupial fauna of
Australia and New Guinea from the non-marsupial fauna of Indonesia

A

Wallace’s Line:

36
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Native or aboriginal peoples; often used to designate the inhabitants of areas that were conquered
and subsequently colonized by the imperial powers of Europe

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Aboriginal Population

37
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The name given by Australians to the vast, sparsely settled interior of the country

A

Outback

38
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A periodic, abnormal warming of the sea surface in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. Disturbs weather
patterns across much of the world, especially in northwestern and northeastern South America

A

El Niño

39
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The process of removing dissolved salts from water to make fresh water from seawater

A

Desalinization

40
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The legal campaign in which Australia’s indigenous peoples have claimed title to traditional land in
several parts of that country

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Aboriginal Land Issue

41
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Peripheral Development

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Spatial pattern in which a country’s or region’s development (and population) is most heavily
concentrated along its outer edges rather than in its interior

42
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Volcanic islands in the Pacific Realm with enough elevation to wrest (take) enough moisture from the
tropical ocean air in order to be well-watered, and thus support productive agriculture and larger populations

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High Island

43
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Low-lying coral islands in the Pacific Realm that cannot gain sufficient moisture from the tropical
maritime air to avoid chronic drought – No agriculture, populations rely on fishing and gathering + More
threatened by rising sea levels

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Low Island

44
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A ring-like coral reef surrounding an empty lagoon that probably formed around the rim of a now-
completely-eroded volcanic cone standing on the seafloor – typically uninhabitable by humans

A

Atoll

45
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The geographic study of oceans and seas. Its practitioners investigate both the physical as
well as human aspects of oceanic environments

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Marine Geography

46
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A zone of seawater adjacent to a country’s coast, held to be part of the national territory and
treated as a component of the sovereign state

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Territorial Sea

47
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Areas of the oceans away from land, beyond national jurisdiction, open and free to all

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High Seas

48
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Beyond the coastlines of many landmasses, the ocean floor declines very gently until about
600 feet. Beyond the 600-foot line the sea bottom drops off sharply, along the continental slope, towards the
much deeper mid-oceanic basin. The submerged continental margin is called the continental shelf, extending
from the shoreline to the upper edge of the continental slope.

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Continental Shelf

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