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Splitting up a house into cheap apartments

A flood field for wet rice

Unifies people in a state

Process of converting urban neighborhood from low income to middle class

Regional variety of language distinguished by vocab, spelling, pronunciation

The ability of a country to produce a good or service at a lower cost

Environment controls human actions

Spread of culture from place of authority to others

Degradation of land in semi-arid areas due to human actions

Rural settlement in which houses and farms are close to each other

Someone forced to migrate but has not left the country boundary

Large area of services on the outskirts of urban area; Peripheral model uses them

Harvesting twice a year from same field

Minimum number of people used to support a service

Lots of labor, not a lot of land

Area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use services there

State that contains two or more ethnic groups that agree to coexist

Model

Religion attempting to appeal to all

Area people believe is part of their cultural identity

What is this model?

Location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another

Collection of languages related to each other through common ancestor

Migration of people bc relatives live there

Total number of people divided by total land area

Subsistence agriculture that uses swidden

Combining 2 groups into new cultural feature (often with religion)

Process by which state breaks down into smaller states bc of ethnic problems

Language resulting from mixing colonizer's language with indigenous people's language

Seasonal migration of livestock b/n mountains and lowlands

Boundary that separates regions in which different dialects are

Services

Computer system that stores, organizes, and analyzes geographic data

Real estate agents convince home owners to sell at low price b/c of fear of people of color

Place with high concentration of ethnic group

Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade

Physical character of a place

Disease that occurs over wide area and affects a lot of people

Process of changes in culture when 2 groups meet, each one keeps some of its culture features

State whose territory corresponds to a particular ethnic group

Form of subsistence agriculture based on herding animals

Manufacturing

System in South Africa separating races and fostering discrimination

Power given to central government and subunits of government

Boundaries drawn according to physical features

Spread of culture through bodily movement of people

Portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement

City that is the largest settlement and has 2x as many people as the 2nd largest city

# of people under age 15 and over age 64

Final product weighs more than inputs

Spread of underlying principle even though part of trait is rejected

Rural settlement pattern with isolated farms

Model

Commercial Agriculture

Diminished interaction with increasing distance

Pattern of settlements that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest

Human interaction with the environment - humans change the environment

Transfer of money by workers to people in their home country

Form of commercial farming in which livestock graze over extensive area