Chapter 1: Part 2 Vocab.

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