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100

A person who makes maps

Cartographer 

100

The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s surface 

Population distribution 

100

The physical,visible object made and used by members of a cultural group; includes buildings, furniture, clothing, food, artwork, and musical instrument.

Material culture 

100

A branch of human geography concerned with the spatial analysis of political Systems.

Political geography 

100

The political claim to territory in another country based on ethnic affiliations and historic borders.

Irredentism

200

The placement or arrangement of objects on Earth’s surface; also includes the space between those objects.

Spatial patterns 

200

A city with more than 20 million residents 

Metacity

200

A single aspect of a given culture or society.

Cultural trait 

200

An independent political unity with a centralized authority that makes claim to sole legal, political, and economic jurisdiction over a region with defined boundaries.

State or country 

200

The calculated use of violent acts against civilians and symbolic targets to publicize a cause, intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or affect the conduct of the government.

Terrorism 

300

A Map that shows the surface features of an area.

Topographic map

300

Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods.

Boserup Effect 

300

The spread of an underlying principl, even though a specific characteristi is rejected.

Stimulus Diffusion 

300

A state that possesses the sole authority over the land and people within its boundaries 

Sovereign state 

300

Terrains that transcends national boundaries and is intended to intimidate people in other countries 

International terrorism 

400

The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarized by the phrase “the world is shrinking”

Time-space compression

400

Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support.

Carrying Capacity

400

Barriers that completely halt diffusion 

Absorbing barriers

400

Describing how boundaries are fixed or defined to identify their limits

Delimited Boundary 

400

Acts by individuals or groups against the citizens or government of their own country 

Domestic terrorism 

500

The pattern by which a phenomenon such as the movement of people, or their ideas, technologies, or preferences, spreads from a particular location through space and time.

Diffusion

500

Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rate.

Anti-Natalist Policies

500

A focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they spread.

Culture hearth 

500

A boundary that no longer functions as an international border.

Relic boundary 

500

Basque separatist organization in Spain that used terrorism in its campaign for an independent Basque state.

ETA

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