Across
- 7. Process of draining land inundated with either fresh or salt water to increase areas for agricultural production. Creating a more reliable and easier system to gain water for agricultural production.(IDK 5)
- 10. The movement of people from rural areas to cities. Explains push to cities during and after the Industrial Revolution, seeking better opportunities and jobs than rural life could give.(VIT 6)
- 11. When areas inhabited by low-income people of color are targeted for environmental contamination, like garage dumps being located near a lower-class neighborhood over a high-class one.(CC 6)
- 12. The portion of Earth’s surface with permanent human settlement, meaning the inhabited world expanding greatly through the expanse of human history.(IDK 2)
- 16. When ethnic or immigrant groups adopt enough ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially, like gaining a new language to better their lifestyle in the community.(CC 3)
- 17. Referring to the fact that many places have been controlled or affected by a variety of groups over a period of time. Reshaping the meanings of places and sometimes destroying cultural markers.(IDK 3)
- 22. A country's ability to produce one product a lot more efficiently than it can produce other products within its economy, countries specializing in these certain industries.(CC 7)
- 23. Set of traditional symbols or symbolic forms associated with a country and its citizens. Explains multicultural societies push for nationalism to appeal to a unified population.(IDK 4)
- 27. A boundary identified before an area was settled. Conflict of the 49th parallel, the line of latitude separating the Western United States from Canada.(CC 4)
- 31. An international organization that seeks to foster global monetary cooperation, achieve financial stability, facilitate trade, and promote economic growth and development, providing loans to countries that are very deep in debt that the bank won’t give them a loan.(IDK 7)
- 32. Fuel made from vegetable oils, taking less energy and is usually less expensive.(CC 5)
- 33. Process of introducing plant species that produce chemicals reacting with or draw up contaminants from the soil into shoots and leaves, aiding in brownfield remediation techniques.(IDK 6)
- 34. A crop whose physical state or form has been changed. Like milk, yogurt, or ice cream. Usually price is not as important as quality.(IDK 5)
- 35. Drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences. Boundary coincides with some cultural divide, like language or religion in a certain area, for example China and Vietnam.(CC 4)
Down
- 1. When an ethnic or immigrant group blends in with the host culture and loses many distinctive cultural traits. Intermarriage is a key force that can strongly diminish cultural distinction.(CC 3)
- 2. Inhibiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of most human forms of interaction, time-space compression diminishes friction of distance, explaining and summarizing acceleration of diffusion(IDK 1)
- 3. Period during which the early domestication and diffusion of plants and animals and the cultivation of seed crops led to the development of agriculture. Describing the start of growth and spread of agriculture, leaving to the modern day developments that we have today.(VIT 5)
- 4. Occurring when certain groups, like poor or recent immigrants carry a larger share of environmental risks and hazards than wealthy, long-established ones, the lower class being located near the dumps or sewage plants.(CC 6)
- 5. The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost, creating a globalized and more compressed and tighter-bound world (IDK 1)
- 6. The set of economic and political strategies by which wealthy and powerful countries indirectly maintain their influence over less wealthy areas. The modern-day version of colonialism, the indirect domination of peripheral states, and people by their own core states.(IDK 4)
- 8. A geographic perspective that seeks to identify and explain the uses of space explains reasons for map projection and the perspective of human geography (VIT 1)
- 9. Method for calculating total population of a country/place based on natural increase and migration over a certain time period (usually a year). Describes population fluctuations and how population changes based on different factors.(VIT 2)
- 13. Branch of human geography concerning the spatial analysis of political systems. Provides the foundation of the reason for different political land associations and why these associations are needed.(VIT 4)
- 14. A firm’s relative ability to outperform other transactional corporations in its industry through innovations and upgrading.(CC 7)
- 15. Corresponds to the direction on a compass: north, south, east, west and combinations like southwest and northeast cardinal directions that are commonly used for navigation.(CC 1)
- 18. When refugees/ displaced people are returned to their home country, describing the act of forced migrants returning to peace in their home country, even though sometimes it can take years.(IDK 2)
- 19. When herders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures, traditionally in nomadic communities.(CC 2)
- 20. Idea that disasters and disaster risk become urban phenomena as the world’s population becomes increasingly concentrated in large cities. Showing the negative aspect of a city's location.(IDK 6)
- 21. Blending of beliefs, ideas, practices, and traits most commonly in religious context. Allowing others with different worldviews or cultures to have a better understanding of one another, and unfolding new demographic patterns.(IDK 3)
- 24. A statistical measure of human achievement that combines data on life expectancy at birth, education levels, and gross national income (GNI) per capita purchasing power parity (PPP) population, summarizing the development that people make outside of the economy and in the economy.(VIT 7)
- 25. A single aspect of a given culture or society, explaining how different cultures have differing traits and traditions based on what they believe in, what their language, food, ethnicity, and many other important elements of culture.(VIT 3)
- 26. Referring to the migration based on the time of year, explaining labor demand concentrated during harvest seasons of specific crops in specific places.(CC 2)
- 28. Fuel derived from organic wastes or plant materials, expanding ethanol production.(CC 5)
- 29. Direction that can be described as position, like front or behind to the left or right. More general directions are usually used to describe the location of a person or thing.(CC 1)
- 30. When a firm transfers some of its internal operations to a third party to easy business operations and tasks.(IDK 7)