Midterm Exam #1 Review Sheet
World Regional
Geography
Key Terms
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Globalization (5 key components) |
Commodity / Commodity chain |
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Personal space |
Comparative advantage |
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Region (formal, functional) |
Demographic transition |
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Scale |
Development theory |
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Diffusion |
Diaspora |
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Bowling Alone |
Modernization theory |
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Environmental determinism |
Nation / Nationalism / Nation-state |
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New international division of labor |
Neocolonialism |
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Hegemon / Hegemony |
Neoliberalism |
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Market system |
Primary / Secondary / Tertiary /
Quaternary activities |
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World-systems theory |
Structural adjustment policies |
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Transnational Corporation (TNC) |
Agglomeration economy |
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Newly Industrialization Country (NIC) |
Balkanization |
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Buffer zone |
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International Monetary Fund |
Command economy |
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World Bank |
Deindustrialization |
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First / Second / Third world |
Ethnic cleansing |
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Deterritorialization |
Enclave / Exclave |
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Offshore |
Marshall Plan |
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Financial markets |
Privatization |
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Place |
Nationalization |
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Digital divide |
Satellite state |
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Free trade |
State socialism |
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Glocalization |
Collapse of the |
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State |
Welfare state |
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Distance decay |
European Union (members, applicants,
functions, history) |
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Time-space compression |
Civil society |
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Environmental determinism |
Pluralist democracy |
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Transnational community |
Near Abroad |
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Core / Periphery / Semi-periphery |
Iron Curtain |
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Capitalism |
Cold War |
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Colonialism |
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