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Geography Vocabulary List
Geography Vocabulary List
Unit 1:
Abiotic
Absolute Location
Assimilation
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Biotic
Cartogram
Cartography
Choropleth Map
Citizen Science
Climate
Concentration
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Landscape
Culture
Density
Diffusion
Distance Decay
Distribution
Dot Distribution Map
Ecology
Ecosystem
Environmental Determinism
Formal Region
Functional Region
GIS
Geotagging
GMT
GPS
Globalization
Graduated Symbol Map
Hearth
Hierarchical Diffusion
Hydrosphere
International Date Line
Isoline Map
Latitude
Lithosphere
Location
Longitude
Map
Map Scale
Mental Map
Meridian
Network
Parallel
Pattern
Place
Possibilism
Prime Meridian
Projection
Region
Relocation Diffusion
Scale
Site
Situation
Space
Space-Time Compression
Spatial Association
Stimulus Diffusion
Sustainability
Syncretism
Toponym
Vernacular Region
Unit 2:
Agricultural Density
Antinatalism
Arable Land
Arithmetic Density
Carrying Capacity
Census
CBR
CDR
Demographic Transition
Demography
Dependency Ratio
Doubling Time
Ecumene
Epidemic
Epidemiologic Transition
Epidemiology
Industrial Revolution
IMR
Life Expectancy
Maternal Mortality Rate
Medical Revolution
NIR
Overpopulation
Pandemic
Physiological Density
Population Pyramid
Potential Support Ratio
Pronatalist
Sex Ratio
TFR
Zero Population Growth
Asylum Seeker
Brain Drain
Circular Migration
Circulation
Emigration
Family Based Migration
Floodplain
Forced Migration
Guest Worker
Immigration
Internal Migration
IDP
International Migration
Interregional Migration
Intervening Obstacle
Intraregional Migration
Migration
Migration Transition
Mobility
Net Migration
Pull Factor
Push Factor
Quota
Refugees
Remittance
Step Migration
Unauthorized Immigrant
Voluntary Migration
Unit 3:
Cultural Homogenization
Custom
Fake News
Folk Culture
Habit
Popular Culture
Taboo
Terroir
Language
Centripetal force
Centrifugal force
Institutional language
Developing language
Vigorous language
Threatened language
Dying language
Literary tradition
Language family
Language branch
Language group
Lingua franca
Logograms
Official language
Working language
Pidgin language
Dialect
Subdialect
Isogloss
Mutual intelligibility
Endangered language
Isolated language
Four largest religions
Folk religions
Atheism
Agnosticism
Universalizing Religions
Ethnic Religions
Congregation
Denomination
Branch
Syncretic religions
Animism
Monotheism
Polytheism
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Protestantism
Five Pillars of Islam
Sunni Islam
Shia Islam
Buddhism
Four Noble Truths
Theravada Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism
Vajrayana Buddhism
Hinduism
Pilgrimage
Utopian settlement
Autonomous Religion
Hierarchical Religion
Cosmogony
Solar Calendar
Lunar Calendar
Lunisolar Calendar
Fundamentalism
Caste
Ethnicity
Race
Nationality
Racism
Ethnic enclaves
Ethnoburbs
Triangular slave trade
Apartheid
Nationalism
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
Xenophobia
Balkanization
Unit 4:
Democracy
Anocracy
Autocracy
Balance of Power
Boundary
City-State
Microstate
Primate City
Colonialism
Colony
Neo-Colonialism
Devolution
State
Nation
Nation-State
Multinational State
Sovereignty
Self-Determination
Terrorism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Shatterbelt
Frontier
Supranational
Relict Boundary
Antecedent Boundary
Superimposed Boundary
Physical Boundary
Cultural Boundary
Geometric Boundary
Perforated State
Prorupted State
Compact State
Elongated State
Federal State
Unitary State
Median Line Principle
Unit 5:
Agribusiness
Agricultural Revolution
Agriculture
Aquaculture
Cash Crop
Cereal Grain
Columbian Exchange
Commercial Agriculture
Crop
Crop Rotation
Desertification
Double Cropping
Factory farming
Fishery
Fishing
Food Security
Genetically Modified Organism
Green Revolution
Herbicide
Horticulture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Milkshed
Mixed crop and livestock farming
Monocropping
No tillage
Organic agriculture
Overfishing
Pastoral Nomadism
Pesticide
Plantation
Ranching
Second Agricultural Revolution
Shifting Cultivation
Subsistence Agriculture
Transhumance
Truck farming
Undernourishment
Wet rice
Metes-and-bounds
Township-and-range
Long-lot
Commodity Chains
Wheat Belt
Bid-rent Theory
Feedlot
Basic Business
Business Service
Central Place
Central Place Theory
Clustered Rural Settlement
Consumer Service
Dispersed Rural Settlement
Economic Base
Food Desert
Gravity Model
Market Area/Hinterland
Megacity
Metacity
Non-basic Business
Periodic Market
Primate City
Primate City Rule
Public Service
Range (of a service)
Rank-size Rule
Service
Settlement
Threshold
Urbanization
Annexation
Census Tract
Central Business District, CBD
Central City
Combined Statistical Area, CSA
Concentric Zone Model
Core-based Statistical Area, CBSA
Edge City
Galactic/Peripheral Model
Gentrification
Informal Settlement
Megalopolis
Metropolitan Statistical Area, MSA
Micropolitan Statistical Area
Multiple Nuclei Model
Rush Hour
Sector Model
Smart Growth
Social Area Analysis
Sprawl
Suburb
Underclass
Urban Area
Urban Cluster
Urbanize Area
Unit 6:
Adolescent Fertility Rate
Developed Country
Developing Country
Fair Trade
Female Labor Force Participation
GDI
GII
GDP
Global City
GNI
HDI
IHDI
Literacy Rate
Microfinance
Primary Sector
Productivity
Pupil/Teacher Ratio
PPP
Secondary Sector
Structural Adjustment Program
Sustainable Development Goals
Tertiary Sector
World-Systems Theory
Acid Deposition
Acid Precipitation
Active Solar Energy
Air Pollution
Animate Power
Biomass Fuel
Brea-of-bulk Point
Bulk-gaining Industry
Bulk-reducing Industry
CFC
Consumptive Water Usage
Cottage Industry
Demand
Fission
Fordist Production
Fossil Fuel
Fusion
Geothermal Energy
Just-in-time Delivery
Labor-Intensive Industry
Maquiladora
New International Division of Labor
Nonconsumptive Water Usage
Nonpoint-source Pollution
Nonrenewable Energy
Nonrenewable Resource
Outsourcing
Ozone
Point-source Pollution
Pollution
Post-Fordist Production
Potential Reserve
Proven Reserve
Recycling
Remanufacturing
Renewable Energy
Renewable Resource
Right-to-work Law
Sanitary Landfill
Site Factors
Situation Factors
Supply
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