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MASTER STUDYGUIDE ( All The Stuff I Meed To Know But Cant Remember. Flashcards

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1
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Latitude vs longitude

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Latitude = north/south

Longitude = west /east

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Tertiary quaternary and Quinary sector meaning ( specifically cus the all service)

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Tertiary. Business services
Quaternary : knowledge services
Quinary consumer services

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Who is Norman Borlaug

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The main spearheaded of the green revolution invented super wheat seeds

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Irredentism

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The movement to unite a nations homeland when part of it is contained in another state

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Technopole

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Node of important scientific research innovation etc ex silicon valley

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Arab spring

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A rise of democracy in 2011 through several revolts in Arab countries

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Iron law of wages

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Wages turned toward the minimum required to sustain workers. As worker pool narrows pay increases and vice versa

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Difference run pop and folk culture specifically

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Folk culture made in smaller unnamed isolated groups pop is opposite

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Geographic definition of place

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An area of bounded space of some human importance

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Geographic definition of space

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The geometric surface of the earth

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Map scale geographic definition

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The ratio of distance on a map to that in the real world

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Geographic definition of scale

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The relationship between an object and the earth

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How to calculate doubling time with rni

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70 divided by rni

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Globalization definition

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A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something a worldwide scope ( communication trade etc )

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Distance decay

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The theory that the father away two people are the less likely they are to interact

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Space-time compression

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The lessening of distance decay because connection takes less time do to new technology

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Three pillars of sustainability

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Environment society economy

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Assimilation

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The process by which a groups cultural are altered to resemble those of another group

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Acculturation

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The process of changes in the culture that result from the meaning of two groups

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Elder support ration

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Work age people divided by number of age, 15 to 65

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Parts of epidemiologic transition

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1 need for food
2 treatable disease
3 degenerative disease like cancer etc
4 delayed lifestyle diseases

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Terroir

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Contribution of a location, distinctive, physical features to have food taste

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Pidgin language

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Created by learning grammar rules in words of lingua franca, and mixing in certain elements of other language, no native speakers

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Major branches of Buddhism

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1 Theravada. Mainland south Asia in Sri Lanka.
2 Mahayana china Japan Korea
3 vajvayana. Mongolian Tibet

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Example of syncretic religion

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Taoism because it combines Confucianism and Buddhism

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Toponym

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Journal name for any place or geographical entity. Nickname for place.

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cosmogony

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Set a religious beliefs concerning creation of the universe

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Balkanization

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The process by which a state collapsed due to ethnic conflict

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Boundary types

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1 cultural ( follows patterns of cultural factors
2 geometric (human ideas latitudes borders )
Physical ( landscape features)

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LAw of the sea rules

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Territorial: 12 km can set laws
Contiguous: 12-24 pollution taxes customs immigration
Exclusive economic zone EEZ all fishing and mining rights reserved

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Crops hearths worldwide

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East Asia : soybean, rice , walnut
SW Asia lentils/beans, olives, rye barley wheat
SEAsia mango taro coconut pigeonpea
Africa yams,sorghum,finger miller, coffee
Latin American maize, cotton, potatoes ,Lima bean

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What’s in rings of con thunen model

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1 market
2dairy market gardening
3 lumber
4 grain field crops
5 livestock
6 wilderness

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Main idea of von thunen model

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Predicts location of different farming industries based on land and transport costs

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Green revolution stuff

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Defined by two practices high yield seeds and fertilizers 1950-1984

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Second agricultural revolution

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Began UK 17th century due to increased productivity with breeding of livestock and crop rotation

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Central place theory

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Used to determine the most profitable place for a business

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Gravity model

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Determines that optimal service location is directly related to the number people and that area and inversely related to distance needed to travel to access it

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Megalopolis

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A collection of adjacent or overlapping metropolitan areas that merge into a continuous urban region. Ex east coast

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MSA metropolitan statistical area

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An urbanized area of over 50,000 . Contains county of urbanized are and parts of adjacent area ex La MSA complicated

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Ûsa micropolitan statistical area ( weird u is supposed to be upside down h)

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Same as MSA but central city 10,000-50,000 people

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galactic city model

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When urban area consists of an inner-city, surrounded by suburban residential service nose, or nuclei, all interconnected by surrounding Ring Road

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Important part of Latin American city model

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Mall strip going through center and central business district 

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IHDI.
Inequality adjusted human development index

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Measure HDI but with amount of j equality in a country if HDI lower there is inequality the bigger the difference the more inequality

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GDI
Gender development index

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1 reproductive health, or adolescent fertility rate, and maternal mortality rate
2 empowerment, or percent of women, in legislation and percent with secondary school education

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Five factors of rosters model of international trade

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One traditional society
Two preconditions for takeoff
Three takeoff
Four. Drive to maturity.
Five age of mass consumption

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Centripetal

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A force that unifies people in a country

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Centrifugal force

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A force that the force that divides people in a country

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Criticisms of Rostow model for international trade

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ethnocentric views, being too linear, and having overlapping stages. Many note that it focuses only on the Westernized path to economic development.

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Right to work laws

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Laws that make it harder for workers to unionize. More prevalent in the south and west.

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Metes and bounds

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The system on east coast relies on description of natural features to set property boundaries

51
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Sector model factors

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Takes ethnicity into account
Made without private automobile ownership

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Sequent occupancy

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The way, the current cultural landscape of a region is defined as the sum total of all the marks the previous civilizations have left on the region

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Metes and bounds

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Based on a medieval European method of dividing land, depends, solely upon natural features such as rivers forest, etc.

54
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How to calculate the gravity model

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Population X location
Divided by square of distance between them

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Heartland theory

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Idea that whoever controls Eurasia would dominate the world

56
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Tragedy of commons

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When communal things are messed up because of people acting in their own self interest. Mess up resources.
This is why we can’t have nice things type shit

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Why is the first world 2nd world third world country model no longer used?

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Because it was based on the soviet system

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Free trade zones

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Geographic areas where goods may be receive, sent, manufactured, or reconfigured under customs regulations without have to pay customs duty

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Agglomeration

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How concentrated connectivity is around a central place

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Theory of industrial location

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Manufacturing sites are best, determined by looking at the site available transportation labor in agglomeration

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Urban hierarchy

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Shows several layers of places across the human landscape that follow regular patterns. Related to central place theory example: Village market for small items, town market for me and items city market for large items

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Footloose industry

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One that can be placed at any location because it is not affected by factors, such as transportation or resources. Example chip manufacturing or diamond cutting.

63
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What is market area
Defined by

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Threshold and range

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Piedmont industrial region

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Southeastern United States

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Total fertility rate

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Ages, 15 to 45

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New Asian tigers and old Asian tigers

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Old Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong

No, vietnam India, Malaysia, Indonesia, China

67
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Operational border dispute

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Occurs when borders are agreed to, but passes across the border is a problem

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Allocational border dispute

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When a resource lies on either side of a border

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Locational border dispute

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When a border moves like a river

70
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Five pillars of Islam

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Five daily prayers, Islamic creed ohms to the poor observance of Ramadan and a hajj

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