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Semester Exam Review Flashcards

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ASSIMILATION

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Joining the DOMINANT culture and losing MOST of or ALL of your ORIGINAL culture

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ACCULTURATION

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Adopting certain aspects of DOMINANT culture but KEEPING some of OG culture

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TIME-SPACE COMPRESSSION

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REDUCTION of TIME it takes to diffuse something to a DISTANT place

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CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

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Using ANOTHER culture as your OWN

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COMMODIFICATION

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Process in which something is given MONETARY value

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PLACELESSNESS

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Loss of UNIQUENESS of cultural landscape

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POSSIBILISM

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People can OVERCOME their environmental OBSTACLES (Japan)

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ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

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European theory- Temperate zones are where the best countries will be

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LARGE SCALE

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SMALL area, LOTS of details

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SMALL SCALE

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LARGE area, LITTLE detail

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FORMAL REGION

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Has ONE thing in common

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FUNCTIONAL REGION

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SOCIAL or ECONOMIC function

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PERCEPTUAL REGION

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Boundaries drawn in people’s MINDS

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ARITHMETIC DENSITY

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Total # of People/ Total Land

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PHYSIOLOGICAL DENSITY

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Total # of People/ Arable Land

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AGRICULTURAL DENSITY

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Total # of Farmers/ Arable Land

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CENTRIPETAL FORCE

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UNITE the state and ENHANCES support for it

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CENTRIFUGAL FORCE

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TEAR apart political and ethnic groups

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THOMAS MALTHUS

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Believed there would NOT be enough FOOD to SUPPORT the people

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ESTHER BOSERUP

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Proved Thomas WRONG, TECHNOLOGY would be invented to be able to support the people

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PRONATALIST

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WANTS people to have MORE kids

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ANTINATALIST

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Want people to STOP having kids

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TOTAL FERTILITY RATE (TFR)

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AVERAGE # of children born to WOMEN in their lifetime

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ZERO POPULATION GROWTH

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Birth and death rates are EQUAL

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REPLACEMENT RATE

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Number of births needed to keep a population STEADY

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BASQUE LANGUAGE

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ISOLATED language

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LARGEST LANGUAGE FAMILY

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Indo-European family

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ISOGLOSS

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A word usage BOUNDARY

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RUST BELT

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New York— Midwest
(Manufacturing)

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SUN BELT

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South & West U.S.

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MOST CROWDED PLACES

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Europe, South Asia, East Asia

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COUNTRIES IN STAGE 1

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None

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TABOO

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Behaviors that are DISLIKED by a culture

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FOLK CULTURE

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SMALL, homogeneous groups who are ISOLATED & SLOW CHANGING

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POP CULTURE

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LARGE, heterogenous groups who are NEW & YOUNG, WIDESPREAD and FAST-CHANGING

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TOPONYM

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Name of a place that has SIGNIFICANCE

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GLOBALIZATION

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The increasing CONNECTIONS around the world due to improvements in TECHNOLOGY

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REMITTANCES

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Money SENT BACK to a HOME country from foreign (guest) workers

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CASTE SYSTEM

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SOCIAL class system found in INDIA

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ETHNIC RELIGIONS

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Judaism, Hinduism

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UNIVERSALIZING RELIGIONS

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Islam, Buddhism, Christianity

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CARRYING CAPACITY

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The number of people a place can support using RESOURCES and TECHNOLOGY

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MEGALOPOLIS

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Boston to DC

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DEPENDENCY RATIO

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How many people need to be SUPPORTED by the WORKING class

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ASYLUM

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PROTECTION granted to REFUGEES

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CYCLIC MOVEMENT

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Takes place DAILY

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PERIODIC MOVEMENT

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MONTHLY or SEASONAL movement

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TRANSHUMANCE

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SEASONAL movement of LIVESTOCK

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LINGUA FRANCA

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An INTERNATIONALLY used language (ENGLISH)

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ROMANCE LANGUAGES

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French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

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CREOLE LANGUAGE

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Mix of INDIGENOUS and COLONIAL languages

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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

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The PHYSICAL imprint on the ENVIRONMENT cause by HUMANS

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CULTURAL BARRIERS

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PREVENT cultural DIFFUSION

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CULTURAL REALMS

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PERCEPTUAL regions of the world (Middle East, Latin America, East Asia)

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ISLANDS OF DEVELOPMENT

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Areas in LDCs that have RESOURCES and MODERN technology

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RACE

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People distinguished by PHYSICAL traits

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ETHNICITY

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People who share an IDENTITY

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POPULATION TRENDS

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Growing at a rate of 0.84%

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RELOCATION DIFFUSION

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People migrate and take their culture with them

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EXPANSION DIFFUSION

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When innovations spread to a NEW place while staying STRONG in the original location

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STIMULUS DIFFUSION

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When an idea diffuses OUTWARD from the hearth, but the idea is CHANGED by the new ADOPTERS

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HIERARCHICAL DIFFUSION

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Innovation is spread through people of POWER or INFLUENTIAL people

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