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Gravity Model
Central Place
Market center for the exchange of goods
Urbanization
Population and urban settlements grow
Consumer Services
Individual services to those who can afford
Business Services
Facilitate activities to businesses
Hinterland
Market area
Public Services
Provide security for citizens/businesses
Rank Size Rule
Countries nth largest settlement is 1/n the population
Red-Lining
Draw a line on a map and refuse to lend money
Gentrification
Neighborhood from low-income
Central City
Self-governing unit
Environmental Determinism
Environment determines human cultures
Scale
Portion and whole study of Earth
Prime Meridian
Passes through Royal Observatory, England, and has 0 longitude
Geographic Information System
Captures geographic data, stores, queries, and displays through satellites
Literary Tradition
Written as well as spoken
Language Family
Common ancestral language before recorded history
Language Branch
Common ancestral language not old nor new
Language Group (GROUP TOGETHER LAST ONE)
Within a branch that shares a common origin newer
Agnostic
Belief that God's existence can't be proven
Self-Determination
Ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
Centripetal Force
Unify people by attitude
Federal State
Power in LOCAL gov
Unitary State
Power in CENTRAL gov
Congregation
Religious worship group