Acronyms
NIR / NRI.
What is the Natural Increase Rate / Natural Rate of Increase?
A country experiences a rapid decline in the death rate while the birth rate remains high, leading to a very rapid population increase. (DTM)
What is stage 2 of the DTM?
About 8% of jobs are in this service category.
What are public services?
a language used as the primary means of communication within a particular context, such as an international organization, a business, or a specific industry.
What is a working language?
the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
What is sovreignity?
MMR.
What is Maternal Mortality Rate?
This stage of Rostow's Model involves the development of infrastructure, the beginning of manufacturing, and the emergence of a merchant class.
What are Preconditions for Take-Off?
A debated practice in the US (which is not yet enforced) that shows what products use crops that are modified genetically.
What is GMO Labeling?
constitutes the largest branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is Indo-Iranian?
a gradual and partial process where individuals adopt some practices and values of a new culture while still holding onto aspects of their own cultural identity.
What is acculturation?
BPO
What is Business Process Outsourcing?
An international organization that works to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, and promote high employment and sustainable economic growth.
What is the IMF?
The shape used for the representation of market areas in central place theory.
What is the hexagon?
The vast majority of members of this religion reside in two countries: Israel and the United States.
a geographical theory that challenges environmental determinism.
What is environmental possiblism?
µSA.
What is a Micropolitan Statistical Area?
A shift occurs in the leading causes of death, shifting from infectious diseases towards chronic and lifestyle-related diseases like cancer, heart disease, and obesity. (ETM)
What is stage 5?
The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted; a synonym for market area.
What is a hinterland?
The place where Sikhs come together for worship.
What is a Gurdwara?
CBD.
What is the central business district?
ZPG.
What is Zero Population Growth?
GII, GNI, IHDI, HDI, GDI, WTO, and SDGs.
What are the Gender Inequality Index, Gross National Income, Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index, Human Development Index, Gender Development Index, World Trade Organization, and Sustainable Development Goals?
The way the range is measured, rather than in distance.
What is time?
A community built to reflect the ideals of a particular religious or social group.
What is a Utopian Settlement?
Full definition of the word geography.
What is the study of where things are found on Earth's surface and why they are found there?