AP HUG Vocab Review

Bind countries together, include strong national institutions, sense of common history, reliance on strong central gov.

Systematic use of violence by a group to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.

The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services.

Countries in which more than one language is in use.

When an established town near a very large city grows into a city independent of the larger one.

Services that provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them.

A model observing that cities grow outwards from their CBDs in a series of concentric rings.

A system of written communication.

The transition of land from fertile to desert, and environmental damage.

The boundaries between variations in pronunciation or word usage.

Physical storefronts.

The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

A theory that predicts where businesses will or should be located .

The study of the flow of goods and services through space.

A policy of extending a country's political and economic power.

A region that suffers instability because it is located between two very different regions.

Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.

Mass, organized killing, in which people are targeted because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.

The source of origin where a religion or ethnicity begins, and then tracks its movement, predicts it's future direction.

States that the nth largest city in any region will be 1/n the size of the largest city.

Division of human geography dealing with spatial variations in distribution,composition,growth,movements of population.

Manipulating plant and animal species in order to sustain life.

The number of live births per year for each 1000 people.

The process of diverting water from its natural course or location to aid in the production of crops.

A description of where something is in relation to other things.

The percent at which a country's population is growing or declining, without the impact of migration.

The study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities.

The distance East or West of the prime meridian.

Belief traditions that emphasize strong cultural characteristics among their followers

Pull countries apart and include regionalism, ethnic strife, and territorial disputes.

The belief that land forms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development.

A theory that suggested that control of coastal land was key to power.

Agriculture that uses fewer inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used.

The study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states.

The process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities.

The number of years the average person will live.

The study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment.

An ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group.

A willingness by one person or a group of people to defend space they claim.

Indicates that when things are father apart , they tend to be less well connected.

A repetitive act that a particular individual performs, such as wearing jeans every day to class.

The size of a population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable.

The art and science of mapmaking.

The process of intensified interaction among peoples, governments, and companies of different countries around the globe

When a nation stretches across borders and across states.

The number of people a region can support without damaging the environment.

A place with a permanent human population.

The transfer of political power from the central government to subnational levels government.

A model showing U.S. cities as decentralized with multiple realms that have their own functions.

A location where transfer of goods among transportation modes is possible.

Clusters of people of the same culture, but surrounded by people of a culture that is dominant in the region.

A model showing that as cities develop, wedge-shaped sectors and divisions emanate from the CBD along transit routes.

Increasing the salt content in soil which decreases crop yield and fertility.

Home-based manufacturing.

When industrial facilities leave an area, taking that region's economic base with them.

A value comparing the working to the non-working parts of a population.

A system in which the inputs needed in the assembly process arrive at the assembly plant close to when they are needed.

Farmers produce goods to provide for themselves and others in the local community.

A boundary established by a legal document such as a treaty that divides one entity from another.

The spatial grouping of businesses in order to share costs.

The precise spot where something is according to some system.

The number of children who died before their first birthday.

The deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food, feed, and fiber.

Agriculture that involves greater inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the space being used.

Small informal settlements built without planning and connection to services.

A theory that suggested that control of central land was key to power.

Density calculated by dividing a region's population by its total area.

The removal of large tracts of forest that has occurred throughout human history.

Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities.

The process by which banks refuse loans to those who want to purchase and improve properties in certain urban areas.

A type of movement in which people do not choose to relocate, but do so under the threat of violence.

The development of higher-yielding, disease-resistant, faster-growing grains beginning in the late 1930s - 1960s.

The distance north or south of the equator.

The shrinking "time distance" between locations due to improved methods of transportation and communication.

The worlds largest cities that typically have more than 10 million people.