Geography Key Words

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A model that explains why wealth becomes concentrated in certain places.
Cumulative Causation
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A small industrial area, often on the coast, where favourable conditions are created to attract foreign TNC's.
Export Processing Zones
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An area of the planet that has remained relatively untouched by human development and is home to only small groups of people.
Wilderness
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A settlement providing a focal point for activities that have global influence. (global and mega cities)
Global Hub
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Materials found in the environment that humans have the ability to use.
Natural Resources
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Due to technology, distant places start to feel closer and physically take less time to reach. This process is sometimes called "time-space compression"
Shrinking World
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The most developed and highly populated region of a country. The growth of these areas is fed by flow from rural areas.
Core
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A geographically concentrated group of connected industries and instituitions including firms, suppliers and banks.
Cluster
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Regions that are strongly connected to other place through trade and consumption.
Switched-on places
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The abilities and potential of the human population in terms of their educational levels, skills and languages and their capacity to create.
Human Resources
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The number of births per 1000 people per year in a region
Birth Rate
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The movement of people between different regions within the same nation
Internal Migration
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A factory built in a country by a TNC that has it's headquartes elsewhere.
Branch Plant
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The decline of regionally important manafacturing industries
Deindustrialisation
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The difference in levels of economic and social well-being between the richest and poorest people
Development Gap
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The movement of individuals between different levels of social heirarchy
Social Mobility
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A company that has operations in more than one country
Transnational Corporation
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Known as the service sector, consisting of buisness that produce no physical product but sell a service
Tertiary Sector
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The distance food travels from producer to consumer
Food Miles
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A migrant whose primary motivation is to seek employment.
Economic Migrant
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A population structure in which the proportion of people aged over 65 is high and rising
Greying Population
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A small industrial area, often on the coast, where favourable conditions are created to attract foreign TNC's.

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Export Processing Zones

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An area of the planet that has remained relatively untouched by human development and is home to only small groups of people.

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A settlement providing a focal point for activities that have global influence. (global and mega cities)

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Materials found in the environment that humans have the ability to use.

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