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

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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
Taoism because it combines Confucianism and Buddhism
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Toponym
Journal name for any place or geographical entity. Nickname for place.
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cosmogony
Set a religious beliefs concerning creation of the universe
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Balkanization
The process by which a state collapsed due to ethnic conflict
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Boundary types
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
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
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
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
Predicts location of different farming industries based on land and transport costs
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Green revolution stuff
Defined by two practices high yield seeds and fertilizers 1950-1984
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Second agricultural revolution
Began UK 17th century due to increased productivity with breeding of livestock and crop rotation
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Central place theory
Used to determine the most profitable place for a business
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Gravity model
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
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
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)
Same as MSA but central city 10,000-50,000 people
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galactic city model
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
Mall strip going through center and central business district 
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IHDI. Inequality adjusted human development index
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
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
One traditional society Two preconditions for takeoff Three takeoff Four. Drive to maturity. Five age of mass consumption
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Centripetal
A force that unifies people in a country
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Centrifugal force
A force that the force that divides people in a country
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Criticisms of Rostow model for international trade
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
Laws that make it harder for workers to unionize. More prevalent in the south and west.
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Metes and bounds
The system on east coast relies on description of natural features to set property boundaries
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Sector model factors
Takes ethnicity into account Made without private automobile ownership
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Sequent occupancy
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
Based on a medieval European method of dividing land, depends, solely upon natural features such as rivers forest, etc.
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How to calculate the gravity model
Population X location Divided by square of distance between them
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Heartland theory
Idea that whoever controls Eurasia would dominate the world
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Tragedy of commons
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?
Because it was based on the soviet system
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Free trade zones
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
How concentrated connectivity is around a central place
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Theory of industrial location
Manufacturing sites are best, determined by looking at the site available transportation labor in agglomeration
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Urban hierarchy
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
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.
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What is market area Defined by
Threshold and range
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Piedmont industrial region
Southeastern United States
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Total fertility rate
Ages, 15 to 45
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New Asian tigers and old Asian tigers
Old Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong No, vietnam India, Malaysia, Indonesia, China
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Operational border dispute
Occurs when borders are agreed to, but passes across the border is a problem
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Allocational border dispute
When a resource lies on either side of a border
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Locational border dispute
When a border moves like a river
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Five pillars of Islam
Five daily prayers, Islamic creed ohms to the poor observance of Ramadan and a hajj

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