Midterm Exam #1 Review Sheet
World Regional Geography
Key Terms

Globalization (5 key components)

Commodity / Commodity chain

Personal space

Comparative advantage

Region (formal, functional)

Demographic transition

Scale

Development theory

Diffusion

Diaspora

Bowling Alone

Modernization theory

Environmental determinism

Nation / Nationalism / Nation-state

New international division of labor

Neocolonialism

Hegemon / Hegemony

Neoliberalism

Market system

Primary / Secondary / Tertiary / Quaternary activities

World-systems theory

Structural adjustment policies

Transnational Corporation (TNC)

Agglomeration economy

Newly Industrialization Country (NIC)

Balkanization

New World Order

Buffer zone

International Monetary Fund

Command economy

World Bank

Deindustrialization

First / Second / Third world

Ethnic cleansing

Deterritorialization

Enclave / Exclave

Offshore

Marshall Plan

Financial markets

Privatization

Place

Nationalization

Digital divide

Satellite state

Free trade

State socialism

Glocalization

Collapse of the Soviet Union

State

Welfare state

Distance decay

European Union (members, applicants,                 functions, history)

Time-space compression

Civil society

Environmental determinism

Pluralist democracy

Transnational community

Near Abroad

Core / Periphery / Semi-periphery

Iron Curtain

Capitalism

Cold War

Colonialism