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Human Geo Unit 3 vocab Flashcards

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qualitiative data

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descriptive data

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quantitative data

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number data

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world city/global city

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important centers of finance/banking/cluture adn commerce

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consumer

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services, retail

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business

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facilitate other busineses activities

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public

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security and protection

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threshold

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number of people needed to support a business

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range

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the distance the customer is willing to go for a service

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terroir

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contribution of a places’ physical features to the way their food tastes

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taboo

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restriction of behavior by religious law/social custom

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malware/malicious software

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hostole software made to cause intentional harm

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ransomware/cryptioviral extortion

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malware encrypt files until ransom payed to decrytp them

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cyber espionage

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unauthroized use of virus to observe/destroy data in government agency’s compuer system

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fake news

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false, newws

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alternative fact/alt fact

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statement false

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trolling

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post on purpose extraneous/off topicd messages to provoke fights

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cultural homogenizatoin

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loss of localized folk culture due to spread of pop culture convergence of cultural preterence

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franchise

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agreeemnet between comapny and businesspeople to market the company’s products in a local area

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cultural landscape

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natural landscape that has been modified by humans to reflect their cultural beliefs and values

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ethnocentrism

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judging other cultures based on one’s own culture, belief that ones own culture is better

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sequent occupancy

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societies adn culture groups leave their cultural imprints when they live in a place

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cultural relativism

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unbiased way of viewing another culture

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ethnicity

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sense of belonging/identity within a group of peole by common ansestory or culture

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language

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system of communicting with speech, moveent, sound or symbol taht a group of people can understand

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centripetal force

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force unifiy people

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centrifugal force

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force splitting people

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literary tradition

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written and spoken language

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vulgar latin

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variations in latin. regional differnces in latin, and dialect of latin when conquered. Also integrated local words

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lingua franca

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a language of international communication, like englishl

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logograms

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symbols represent words/part of words. like in chinese

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official language

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used by governemtn for government stuff

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working language

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used by people for daily chitchat

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pidgin language

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to communicate with speakers of another language, both groups construct a pidgin language by learning a few grammar rules and lingua franca adn mix with their own language

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dialect

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regional variation in a langages. pronounciation, spelling, and vocab are charcteristst

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subdialect

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subdivision of a dialect

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standard dialect

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dialect msot acceptable for governemtn, well estalblished, and widely recognized for mass communication

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recieved pronounciation (RP)

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accent used all over the country

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isogloss

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geographic boundary of a certian word/linguistic feature

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creole/creolized language

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mix of colonizer and indigenous language. indigenous people geing colonized

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mutual intelligibility

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people speaking in 2 ways able to undertanad each other without prior familiarability or special effort

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endangered languages

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children not using

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isolated language

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unrelated and not attached to any language or language family

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extince language

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language no longer in use

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universalizing religions

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attempt to be global

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ethnic religions

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appeal to 1 ethnic culture group

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congregation

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local assembly of people for a common religious worship

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denomination

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unites same-religion congretations into 1 single legal body

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branch

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large and fundimental division in a religion

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atheism

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belief that god does not exist

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agnosticism

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belief that god cannot be proven

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syncretic

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combine several differnt traditions

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animism

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objects having a soul. elements of the natural world (plants, stones, thunderstorms etc.) all have spirits and consious life

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monotheism

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belief that there is only one god

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polytheism

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worship of a collection of gods

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missionaries

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people who help transmit religion through relocation diffusion

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ghettos

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city neighborhods set up by law to be used by jews

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utopian settlement

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community made to reflect ideals of a particular group

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autonomous religions

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self sufficient, little interation between communites

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hierarchical religion

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well defined power structure

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cosmogony

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religious belief concernd with the origin of the world

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solar calendar

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month depending on sunna

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lunar calendar

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month corrispond wiht moon cycle

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lunisolar calendar

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lunar months aligned with solar uear through peirodic adjustment

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solstice

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when sun reaches its highest/lowest point of the year

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fundamentalism

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literal interpretiation, strict/intense adherence to what religion fundamentalists define as basic principal of religion

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caste

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system indicating class/hierarchy order when a hindu is born

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pagoda

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a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.

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