Chapter 1: Part 2 Vocab.
Across
- 2. a trailing-off phenomenon where contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
- 4. the number of farmers per unit area of farmland- may mean that a country has inefficient agriculture
- 5. term used to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place
- 9. the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture- may mean that a country has difficulty growing enough food to sustain its population
- 10. the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
- 12. the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy
- 13. the place from which an innovation originates
- 14. the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
- 15. the total number of objects in an area, commonly used to compare the distribution of population in different countries
- 16. the extent of a feature’s spread over space
Down
- 1. the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
- 3. the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
- 6. the geometric arrangement of objects in space
- 7. the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
- 8. the arrangement of a feature in space
- 11. the frequency with which something occurs in space