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Geography Final Exam Flashcards

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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

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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

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The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society

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Doubling Time

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The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase

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Infant Mortality Rate

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population

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Physiological density

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The number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture

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Population pyramid

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A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex

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Sex ratio

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The number of males per 100 females in the population

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Zero Population Growth

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A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero

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Asylum seeker

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Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

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Brain Drain

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Large-scale emigration by talented people

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Chain migration

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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

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Emigration

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Migration from a location

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Immigration

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Migration to a new location

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International migration

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Permanent movement from one country to another

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Inter regional migration

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Permanent movement from region of a country to another

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Intervening obstacle

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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

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Intraregional migration

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Permanent movement within one region of a country

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Migration

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A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location

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Net migration

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The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

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Pull factor

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A factor that induces people to move to a new location

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Push factor

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A factor that induces people to leave old residences

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Refugees

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People who are forced to leave their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution

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Remittance

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Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated

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Unauthorized immigrant

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A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so

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Culture

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The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition

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Custom

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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

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

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Habit

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A repetitive act performed by a particular individual

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Hearth

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A center of innovation

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Taboo

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

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Agnosticism

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Dyke belief that the existence of God can’t be proven or disproven empirically

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Animism

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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

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The belief that God does not exist

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Branch

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A large a fundamental division within a religion

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Caste

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The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law

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Cosmogony

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A set of beliefs concerning the origin of the universe

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Denomination

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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

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A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control

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Missionary

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An individual who helps to diffuse a universalize game religion

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Monotheism

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The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one God

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Polytheism

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Belief in or worship of more than one god

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Syncretic

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Combining several religious traditions

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