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- 2. The study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. This word is the VIT for unit seven because this unit focuses on the system of urban areas, their location, and the history behind urban areas. This unit also looks at the political, cultural, and economic function of urban areas.( 7 VIT)
- 5. A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. (5 CC)
- 8. The number of males per 100 females in the population. (2 CC)
- 9. Areas in which particular genders of people, and particular types of gender expression, are considered welcome or appropriate, and other types are unwelcome or inappropriate. (Just to clarify, I chose this as a CC because sounds similar to other CC in this unit, but it doesn’t have the same meaning) (2 CC)
- 12. The absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics. (1 CC)
- 13. The study that analyzes geography,history, and social science with reference to spatial politics and patterns at various scales. This is a VIT because unit four looks at the organization of states in reference to spatial concepts and politics. (4 VIT)
- 14. Map line that connects points of equal or very similar values. ( 1 IDK)
- 16. Refers to the practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race. (7 CC)
- 17. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. (5 CC)
- 18. An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state (4 CC)
- 21. Attempts to reconnect people to place through its architecture, the preservation of historical buildings, the re-emergence of mixed land uses and connections among developments (7 IDK)
- 22. A system of farming where lots up to a half mile or more extend back from a river, which farmers use as their primary means of hauling their agricultural products to the market. (5 IDK)
- 23. The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.( 2 IDK)
- 25. A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time as a result of a country developing its economy. I chose this word as the VIT for unit two because this model best explains the concepts of dynamics,growth, and change of population, which is what this unit basically looks at. (2 VIT)
- 29. Geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases.(6 IDK)
- 30. The process of a culture adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage. (3 CC)
- 31. The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. I chose this as the VIT for unit five because this unit looks at the geography, history, and issues related to this word.( 5 VIT)
- 33. Diffusion of a process with negative side effects ; image takes precedence over practicality — What works well in one region may not in another. ( 3 IDK)
- 34. the position that a state should be annexed because of ethnicity of prior historical possession. (4 IDK)
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- 1. A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit data. (1 IDK)
- 3. Any culture having an agricultural system that is dependent upon large-scale government-managed waterworks—productive (for irrigation) and protective (for flood control). (7 IDK)
- 4. The traditional Chinese and Korean practice of designing buildings in accordance with the principles of cosmic harmony and discord that supposedly course through the local topography. ( 3 IDK)
- 6. The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system (1 CC)
- 7. An attempt to measure the quality of life or well-being of a country; the value is the average of three statistics: basic literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one all equally weighted on a 0-100 scale (6 CC)
- 8. Model where economic development is based on the idea of successive stages of development, though some regions or countries may take longer than others to make the transition from one state to the next. The speeds are determined by their resource endowments, their productivity, and the wisdom of their people's policies and decisions. I chose this model as a VIT for unit six because this unit looks at sectors of the economy and economics of a country in relation to country-scale levels of development sort of like this model. (6 VIT)
- 10. As a company produces larger numbers of a particular product, the cost of each unit of the product goes down. (6 IDK)
- 11. how fertility rates are lowered; the final two stages of the DTM depend on both the successful cultural diffusion of effective methods of birth control and the widespread acceptance of the notion that small families are preferable to large ones. fertility decline became accepted as countries industrialized largely because children were no longer needed to help with farm work. (2 IDK)
- 15. A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.( 5 IDK)
- 19. A measure of living conditions by the UN using factors such as life expectancy, education, and income; calculates development in terms of human welfare(6 CC)
- 20. The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. I chose this as the VIT for Unit 3 because this unit looks at the various components of this word such as identity, change, adaptation, and conflicts. ( 3 VIT)
- 24. Moving a nation's capital to another area within the state to make a statement or create economic growth. (4 IDK)
- 26. 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(7 CC)
- 27. The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. (3 CC)
- 28. Arrangement of features in space; it includes three main properties: density, concentration, pattern. I chose this as a VIT because unit one mostly talks about spatial organization and understanding this word is essential to understanding the key concepts of space and place in this unit.(1 VIT)
- 32. Forces of disruption and dissolution threatening the unity of a state (4 CC)