Ch. 14 Rubenstein Flashcards Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards Acid deposition: Sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, emitted by burning fossil fuels, enter the atmosphere-where they com¬bine with oxygen and water to form sulfuric acid and nitric acid-and return to Earth’s surface Acid precipitation: Conversion of sulfur…
Ch. 13 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 13 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 7: Urbanization Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards Annexation: process of legally adding land area to a city. Concentric zone model: model created by EW Burgess in 1923, which explains that a city grows outward from a central…
Ch. 12 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 12 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 7: Urbanization Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards Basic industries: industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement business services: services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses central business district (CBD):…
Ch. 11 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 11 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 6: Industrialization & Development Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards “Fordism” (post-Fordism): Approach that explains how many industries are attracted to locations with relatively skilled labor to introduce new rules. Traditionally, in large factories, each worker was…
Ch. 10 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 10 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 6: Agriculture Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards Agribusiness: system of commercial farming found in the United States and other relatively developed countries. Boserup Hypothesis: based on the observation that explains how population increase necessitates increased inputs…
Ch. 9 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 9 Rubenstein Flahscards Unit 6: Industrialization & Development Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards Developing Country: Term that analysts use instead of the term “less developed country.” Economic Development: Process of improving economic/material conditions of people through the diffusion of knowledge…
Ch. 8 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 8 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 5: Political Geography Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards balance of power: condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries boundary: invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory city-state: a sovereign…
Ch. 7 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 7 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 4: Culture Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards Apartheid: Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. Balkanization: Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among…
Ch. 6 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 6 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 4: Culture Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards | Study religion flash cards Animism: belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life Autonomous…
Ch. 5 Rubenstein Quizlet pages Ch. 5 Rubenstein Flashcards Unit 4: Culture Main Vocabulary Page Choose a Study Mode Scatter Learn Flashcards Study these flash cards accent: the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world bi-linguality: Speaking two languages. BRP: British Received Pronounciation. The dialect…