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Duplicate of AP Human Geography Vocabulary
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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Subsistence Farming
Plantation Farming
Nomadism
Shifting Agriculture
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
Nation-state:state
State:government
State:nation-state
Government:state
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What is the gravity model?
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language
Language Family
Creole
Pidgin
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Population Size Rule
Duplification
Rank Size Rule
Doublication
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Suburbanization
Urbanization
Migration
Ruralization
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between population and economic growth
It shows the link between economic and business growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Secondary:Primary
Primary:Secondary
Quinary:Quaternary
Quaternary:Quinary
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The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GNP
GDP
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Elongated
Compact
Perforated
Fragmented
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Mentifact
Artifact
Sociofact
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Controlism
Colonialism
Superiorism
Imperalism
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Imperialism
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Fertility Rate
Replacement Level
Equality Level
Secularism
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What is a charter group?
The first group of people to settle at a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
A large group of people go to a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language Family
Creole
Language
Pidgin
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Enlongated State
Compacted State
Perforated State
Fragmented State
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Anquescent
Conquescent
Subsequent
Andecent
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Possibilism
Determinism
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
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What model is this?
Multiple Nuclei
Sector
Concentric Zones
Urban Realms
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The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Repurposing
Outsourcing
Supervising
Offshoring
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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Middlism
Locational Depedence Theory
Location Theory
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
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Define Megacity
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with over 20 million people
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Secularism
Socioism
Atheism
Segregation
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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Around location
Percieved location
Relative location
Mental location
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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that require maximum transport firms
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
Quintary
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Concentric Zone Model
Rostow's Model
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Sector Model
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
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What is site?
The population density of a place
The culture of a place
The physical location of a place
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What is the domino theory?
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
A group of people move, so more people will move
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
France
England
Russia
The United States East Coast
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Mendel
Malthus
Rostow
Von Thünen
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Migration
Distance decay
Friction decay
Gentrification
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
Overlaying
GIS
GPS
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A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Buddhism
Shamanism
Ancient Belief
Christianity
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
the destruction of arable land
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
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One god:many gods
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
Polytheism:Monotheism
God:Gods
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The rate of natural increase is
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Population-Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population+Migrants
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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
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Afghanistan
Brazil
United States
Haiti
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Gravity model
Migration termination
Location diffusion
Intervening opportunity
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What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Business District
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business Disclosure
Central Business District
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Animism
Animalism
Spiritalism
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What is the multiplier effect
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
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What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Plantation
Nomadism
Subsistence
Horticulture
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What is the dependency ratio?
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
Children: Adults
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People working:People unemployed
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What is a charter group?
The most recent group of people to go to a place
The first group of people to settle at a place
A large group of people go to a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Ethnoism
Superiorism
Imperialism
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Define pastoralism
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are killed in a season pattern
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agribusiness
Agriculture
Industry
Profit Agriculture
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
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What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
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Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The location using a map.
The address of the location.
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What is an example of channelized migration?
Young adult singles move to Chicago
Senior citizens move to California
A Mexican family move to Texas
A Cuban family comes to Florida
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Malthus
Rostow
Mendel
Mackinder
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
Remote sensing
GIS
Overlaying
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Supervising
Repurposing
Outsourcing
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
urban-to-suburban migration
rural-to-urban migration
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Superimposed boundaries
Forced boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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What is CBR?
Crude business rate
Crude baby rate
Crude birth rate
Crude bid rent
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Edge City
Megacity
Megalopolis
Global city
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What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Mega city
World city
Megalopolis
Global city
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An example of a perceptual region is...
The Rocky Mountains
The Deep South
Canada
The Tristate Area
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Spatial
Spreading
Hiearchical
Contagious
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by state and job
The population by age and job
The population by job and economics
Population by age and sex
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Business language
Lingua franca
Pidgin
Creole
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GNP
GDP
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What is the hinterlands?
The urban complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Perceptual Region
Populous Region
Vernacular Region
Fancy Region
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What is an example of a dialect?
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
A French speaker speaks only French
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Freedom Farming
Subsistence Farming
Truck Farming
United Farming
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocation
Irredentism
Reclaimation
Relocotatism
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What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Power
Sovereignty
Laws
War
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What is a centripetal force?
Different cultural backgrounds
Different ethnicities
One language
Different religions
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Former Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Relict Boundary
Relic Boundary
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Gentrification
Rejuvenation
Renovatation
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An exclave is a....
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
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The gerrymandering process is...
Unfair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Fair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling growth
Population growth
Doubling population
Doubling time
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Population Culture: Folk Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Primary City
Megacity
Primate City
Superior City
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Simplistic Language
Creole
Pidgin
Language
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
map
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
Canada: United States
Federal: Confederate
Confederate: Federal
United States: Canada
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What is situation?
The culture of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The absolute location of a place
The agricultural density of a place
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EPZs
EEZs
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country by force
A country colonizing other countries
A country decolonizing from another country
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Power House
Compact State
Unitary State
Federal State
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Agglomeration
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Relocation
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What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Nonbasic
Basic
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Soloculture
Monoculture
Oneculture
Unoculture
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What is step migration?
Migrating up a set of stairs
Moving only a small bit away
A series of small moves to reach a destination
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Compact
Prorupt
Fragmented
Enlongated
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Malthus
Weber
Burgess
Rostow
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Sociofact
Mentifact
Artifact
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What is decolonization?
People go back to their home country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go to another country
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
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A formal region is a region with...
a percieved image of a region
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
a connection to transportation
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Which is a megalopolis?
London
The Corn Belt
The Tristate Area
Toyko
