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Space

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The physical gap or interval between two objects

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Situation

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The location of a place relative to another place

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Site

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The physical character of a place

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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle

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Assimilation

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The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group

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Atmosphere

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The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth

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Biosphere

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All living organisms on the earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms

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Biotic

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Composed of living organisms

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Concentration

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The spread of something over a given area

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Contagious diffusion

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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Density

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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area

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Diffusion

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The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Distribution

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The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface

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Expansion diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process

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Hydrosphere

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All the water on and near Earth’s surface

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Latitude

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator

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Longitude

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian

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Meridian

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An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles

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Parallel

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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians

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Place

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A specific point of Earth, distinguished by a specific characteristic

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Region

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An area distinguished by one or more distinctive characteristics

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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

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Agricultural density

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land

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Arithmetic density

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The total number of objects in an area

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Crude Birth Rate
The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society
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Crude Death Rate
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society
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Doubling Time
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
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Infant Mortality Rate
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society
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Life expectancy
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live
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Maternal Mortality Rate
The annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management
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Natural Increase Rate
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude north Rate minus the crude death rate
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Pandemic
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
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Physiological density
The number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
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Population pyramid
A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex
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Sex ratio
The number of males per 100 females in the population
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Zero Population Growth
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero
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Asylum seeker
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
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Brain Drain
Large-scale emigration by talented people
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Chain migration
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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Emigration
Migration from a location
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Immigration
Migration to a new location
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International migration
Permanent movement from one country to another
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Inter regional migration
Permanent movement from region of a country to another
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Intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
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Intraregional migration
Permanent movement within one region of a country
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Migration
A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location
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Net migration
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration
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Pull factor
A factor that induces people to move to a new location
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Push factor
A factor that induces people to leave old residences
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Refugees
People who are forced to leave their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution
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Remittance
Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated
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Unauthorized immigrant
A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so
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Culture
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition
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Custom
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
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Folk culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
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Habit
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual
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Hearth
A center of innovation
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Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
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Agnosticism
Dyke belief that the existence of God can’t be proven or disproven empirically
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Animism
The belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural event, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a distinct spirit and conscious life
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Atheism
The belief that God does not exist
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Branch
A large a fundamental division within a religion
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Caste
The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law
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Cosmogony
A set of beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
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Denomination
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body
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Hierarchical religion
A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
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Missionary
An individual who helps to diffuse a universalize game religion
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Monotheism
The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one God
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Polytheism
Belief in or worship of more than one god
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Syncretic
Combining several religious traditions

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