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A language that is spoken by a group of native people.
What is an indigenous language?
A favorable circumstance that causes people to stop a planned migration to take advantage of the prospect.
What is an intervening obstacle?
A boundary created after settlement and evolution to the cultural landscape.
What is a subsequent boundary?
When assembled parts arrive right as they are needed.
What is just-in-time delivery?
The number of people a business must receive in order to remain profitable.
What is threshold?
The spread of an idea through a population where the amount of those influenced grows continuously larger.
What is expansion diffusion?
Leaving an area as a part of a permanent move.
What is emigration?
What is neocolonialism?
The concentration of highly innovative and technically advanced industries stimulating economic growth.
What is a growth pole?
The process when a private funder funds an area of a city and develops it.
What is gentrification?
A system that measures distance from a series of satellites to determine location on the planet
What is a global positioning system?
Methods of preventing pregnancy.
What is contraception?
A zone where a sovereign state can pick and choose what marine resources are used.
What is the exclusive economic zone?
This survey method typically is used for short distances.
What is metes and bounds?
A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside of the central business district, and is connected through a transportation route.
What is an edge city?
A language created between a group of people for the sake of communication.
What is a pidgin language?
The event in the 20th century that allowed countries in South America to move up the Demographic Transition Model.
What is the Medical Revolution?
A state where the government no longer has control and ability to provide.
What is a failed state?
The amount of goods / services created by a country's citizens in a year.
What is gross national product?
Disproportionate exposure of a community with an alike group of people, like ethnicity, to pollution and other negative effects on the environment.
What is environmental disjustice?
A map that displays not only locations but maps a topic or subject of information with the location
What is a thematic map?
Tthe permanently inhabited portion of the earth as distinguished from the uninhabited or temporarily inhabited area
What is the ecumene?
The idea of different governments coming together to create institutions or policies.
What is supranationalism?
The ability for farmers to trade and get payment effectively with no discrimination or being taken advantage of.
What is fair trade?
When an area uses similar design that it gets to the point where it loses its unique aspects.
What is placelessness?