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Definition: a tax that a government charges people on import and export goods.
Why it is important: It explains taxing

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Definition: the process by which economic activities on the earth's surface evolved from producing basic, primary goods to using factories for mass-producing goods for consumption.
Why it is important: It explains growth in industrialism

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Definition: designated group of countries that have agreed to eliminate tariffs, quotas, and preferences on most (if not all) goods and services between them
Why it is important: it is important because it shows why trade routes and routines are as they are.

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Definition: a political and economic partnership that represents a unique form of cooperation among sovereign countries.
Why it is important: I love Mrs. Privette so its automatically important

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Definition: a measure of inequalities between men's and women's opportunities in a country
Why it is important: It is important because it relates back to the GII

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Definition: A form of tourism, based on the enjoyment of scenic areas or natural wonders, that aims to provide an experience of nature or culture in an environmentally sustainable way.
Why it is important: it is important because it gives people job opportunities

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Definition: the process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country which they have settled and taken over.
Why it is important: It is important because it has taken place in the past

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Definition: a composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market
Why it is important: it is important because it shows how men and women are unequal

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Definition: The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society.
Why it is important: it is important because it relates back to population and development

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Definition: a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago
Why it is important: It is important because we have limited quantities of it

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Definition: combines residential, commercial, cultural, or institutional functions into a building, block, or neighborhood.
Why it is important: it is mentioned multiple times throughout the course

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Definition: having access to facilities for the safe disposal of human waste (feces and urine), as well as having the ability to maintain hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection, industrial and hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and disposal.
Why it is important: It is a key factor in development

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Definition: real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant
Why it is important: It is important to know which areas are brownfields when buying a home

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Definition: Countries that usually have low levels of economic productivity, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living.
Why it is important: It can help explain why a country is at the developmental state it is at

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Definition: the tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city
Why it is important: Because Mrs. Privette said it and everything she says is important

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Definition: The extent to which the built environment is friendly to the presence of people living, shopping, visiting, enjoying or spending time in an area
Why it is important: It is a factor when it comes to buying homes

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Definition: The location of a place relative to other places.
Why it is important: it plays into case studies, much like site, but they're different.

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Definition: the exact location of a city
Why it is important: It plays into case studies

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Definition: A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
Why it is important: It is important because it shows how racism played into housing

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Definition: Housing units that are affordable by that section of society whose income is below the median household income
Why it is important: It is important because it is a big factor for people who are trying to find housing

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Definition: requires a relatively large amount of manual labor.
Why it is important: It is important because you need to know the difference between intensive and extensive farming

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Definition: a type of agricultural production that involves the use of relatively low levels of inputs, such as labor, capital, and chemicals, in order to produce crops or livestock
Why it is important: It is important because you need to know the difference between intensive and extensive farming

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Definition: a predictive theory in human geography that predicts humans will use land in relation to the cost of land and the cost of transporting products to market.
Why it is important: It describes the relationship between cost of transport and type of goods

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Definition: Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides.
Why it is important: It is a result of the Green Revolution

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Definition: a crop whose genetic structure has been altered to make it more useful and efficient for human purposes.
Why it is important: It relates to the Green Revolution and there is lots of conflict with it.

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Definition: a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases
Why it is important: It is used when describing relationships with transporting goods

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Definition: occurs when humans contaminate the air, water, or land
Why it is important: it describes the impact of some chemicals on land

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Definition: A linked system of processes that gather resources, convert them into goods, package them for distribution, disperse them, and sell them on the market.
Why it is important: It is important because it explains the way some items get distributed

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Definition: The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe.
Why it is important: It changed the way food was processed and developed

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Definition: A period of rapid development of industry that started in Great Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Why it is important: It is a turning point in history

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Definition: A boundary created by using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs.
Why it is important: Its important because they are different then other types of boundaries

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Definition: a boundary between opposing cultural, ethnic, or political groups, that was established to settle disputes, end wars, and establish a clear separation between group
Why it is important: It is important because it can help explain different cultural changes land wise.

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Definition: boundaries that used to exist and can still be detected on the landscape
Why it is important: It is important because it can explain why boundaries used to exist or show how countries used to be divided.

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Definition: formed based on religious, ethnic, linguistic, and economic differences between groups of people.
Why it is important: It is important to understand why the boundaries are in those places.

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Definition: the name of a boundary between two states that is created before the area is populated with human society.
Why it is important: It is important because it can explain why some boundaries are how they are.

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Definition: a political alliance agreeing to defend against communist advances.
Why it is important: Its important because lots of nations are in it and it protects them. It also explains why a country might join a war that a different country is in.

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Definition: The movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state or breakup of a large state (balkanization) into several independent ones
Why it is important: It is important to know if you have to describe what it means when a nation moves power.

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Definition:  when a people group commits mass expulsion or mass killing of a particular ethnic group whom they do not want to exist either in a particular region or in the world as a whole
Why it is important: It is important because it caused lots of problems in the past.

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Definition: A politically bound area controlled by an established government that has authority over its internal affairs and foreign policy
Why it is important: This is important to know because some people think states are like how we have states in America and not like a country.

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Definition: geographic region comprised of: culturally-diverse weak states with intra-group animosities; geostrategic importance due to vital resources and transportation corridors; diplomatic and military presence of global rivals.
Why is is important: It can help explain what happens in some wars.

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Definition: the language family that includes all European languages (which are widely spoken in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Australasia) and Indian and Iranian.
Why it is important: Most people fall under this category.

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Definition:  the differences between men and women.
Why it is important: It is important because it can help with population and it an help figure out the lifespan of a population

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Definition: the feeling that one's own ethnic group is superior.
Why it is important: It can explain parts of history

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Definition: Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
Why it is important: Its important because it shows what places have different cultures.

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Definition: an attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state.
Why it is important: Shows why people might want to move into a country

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Definition: forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state
Why it is important: It shows why someone might flee a country

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Definition: The process by which people live and are employed in a city.
Why it is important: It shows how urban areas can spread

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Definition: a concept to explain how people define and categorize locations in their minds
Why is it important: It shows how people think.

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Definition:  identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth
Why it is important: It is important because of the difference of race and ethnicity.

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Definition: a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristic
Why it is important: People often get race and ethnicity mixed up. It is important to know the difference.

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Definition: relates the number of children (0-14. years old) and older persons (65 years or over) to the working-age population (15-64 years old).
Why it is important: Its important because it shows how many old people there are compared to younger people.

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Definition:  Government policies that discourage couples from having children
Why it is important: It helps to see what countries don't want children to be born. An example of this would be the one child policy in China.

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Definition: the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
Why it is important: Its important because it helps to see what countries want more children to be born. If a country has a greater dependent to independent ratio, they may want more children to balance it out.

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Definition: the number of persons per unit of land area
Why it is important: Its important because of its meaning. Population density is a good way to see where a country is at development wise. It also helps to calculate when a country will be at its carrying capacity.

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Definition: a tool demographers use to categorize countries' population growth rates and economic structures
Why it is important: It is brought up many, many, many times throughout the year and we refer to it lots.

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Definition: something that encourages an individual to migrate away from a certain place
Why it is important: It is important because it shows why a person wouldn't want to migrate into a country

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Definition: positive factors that attract people to new areas from other areas.
Why it is important: Pull factors are important because it shows why someone would want to migrate into a certain country.

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Definition:  the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear
Why it is important: The crude death rate plus the total fertility rate helps determine the population growth/decline rate

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Definition: an estimate of the average number of children born to each female in her childbearing years
Why it is important: The total fertility rate for each country can change depending on the stage of development it is in and it can directly relate to knowing how developed a country is.

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Definition: The ability of the land to sustain a certain number of people.
Why it is important: Carrying Capacity is important because we need to know if it is the reason the population is decreasing or staying the same.

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Definition: the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation
Why it is important: Its important to know how and why some maps are distorted so we do not assume it is automatically accurate.

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Definition: the name of the theory that states that as the distance between two places increases, the interaction between those two places decreases.
Why it is important: Distance decay is used to describe the relationship between two places which can be useful in Human Geography.

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Definition: something found within the natural environment that is accessible and economically valuable to humans including food, water, soil, plants, animals, and minerals.
Why it is important: Lots of different regions have more/less natural resources than others and it is important to know which ones.

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Definition: a location.
Why it is important: Human Geography is based around millions of places, without it, we wouldn't have Human Geography!

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Definition: the use of Earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future.
Why it is important: Sustainability is used frequently. It's meaning can relate back to lots of things in our units.

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Definition: transitional and often contested and overlapping.
Why it is important: Boundaries of all sorts are mentioned throughout the year. They are important when it comes to analyzing data. There are different types of them so it is good to know the differences.

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Definition:  a process of collecting, compiling, and publishing data about the population and housing of a country or region.
Why it is important: Census data is a subject that comes up multiple times throughout the year. It comes into play in some of the things we learn and can be helpful when analyzing data and graphs.

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Definition: The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
Why it is important: Possibilism is important because it plays a big part in Ap Hug, as past beliefs usually do.

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Definition: The term used to describe the human use of land.
Why it is important: Land use is a big role in Ap Hug. It is used to describe many things throughout the year such as different economic and cultural activities.

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Definition: The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system.
Why it is important: The time-Space Compression comes up multiple times throughout this course.