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Expansion Diffusion

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the spreading of an idea or innovation without the physical movement of people

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Azimuthal Map

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planar projection that shows Earth from the poles while maintaining direction and distance

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Types of commercial agriculture

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Mixed crop and livestock, dairy farming, grain farming, livestock ranching, commercial gardening and fruit farming, and Mediterranean agriculture

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Four Asian Dragons

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Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea

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Possibilism

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The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

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Maquiladora

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Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico.

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Gross Domestic Product

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The total value of goods and services produced within the borders of a country during a specific time period, usually one year.

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Agricultural Density

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

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Guest Worker

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Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.

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1800's-1900's Intraregional Migration trends

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Rural to Urban

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Environmental Determinism

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the belief that the physical environment exclusively shapes humans, their actions, and their thoughts

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Break of Bulk

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A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.

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Large scale map

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shows a small area with much detail; used to see relative location within a region

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Five Themes of Geography

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Movement, Location, Human-Environment Interaction, Place, Region

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Site

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The physical character of a place.

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Subsistence Agriculture

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Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family

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Step Migration

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Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city

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Prime Meridian

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0 degrees longitude

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Von Thunen Agricultural Theory

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It explains agricultural land use patterns by varying transportation cost. The pattern predicts more-intensive rural land is closer to the marketplace, and more extensive rural land is farther from the market place. These rural land use zones are divided into concentric rings.

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Spatial Approach

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Allows geographers to look at earth in terms of relationships between various places

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Human Development Index

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Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy

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Countries in Stage 4 of DTM

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Australia, France, United Kingdom, Italy

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Small scale map

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Shows fewer details, and focuses on a larger area (region, world)

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Endemic

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A disease that is particular to a locality or region.

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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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Domestication of wheat

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Middle East, Turkey, Southwest Asia

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Rostow's Model

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Traditional society, preconditions for takeoff, takeoff , drive to maturity, age of mass consumption

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Physiological Density

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

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Webers Least Cost Theory

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Industries will locate where three things can be done. These things being: minimize transportation costs, minimize labor costs, maximize agglomeration.

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Bulk Reducing Industry

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An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.

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Map scale

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The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.

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Green Revolution

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The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe.

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Shifting Cultivation

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the use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost. Plots are then abandoned, and farmers move on to new sites

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A population pyramid with a young age structure

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