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Land hemisphere
The half of the globe containing the greatest amountof land surface, centered on Europe TERM 2
Physiography
DEFINITION 2 Refers to the total physical geography of a place; includes all of the natural features on the earths suface, including landfills, climate, soil, vegetataion, and water bodies. TERM 3
Infrastructure
DEFINITION 3 Foundations of a society: urban centers, transport networks, communications, energy distribution systems, farms, factories, mines and facilities. TERM 4
Local functional specialization
DEFINITION 4 A hall mark of Europes economic geography that later spread to many parts of the world, whereby particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods and services. TERM 5
Isolated State
DEFINITION 5 The transformation of Europe's farmlands reshaped its economic geography, producing new patterns of land use and market links. John Heinrich von Thunen, studied the changes and published his observations named The Isolated State
Model
An idealized representation of reality built to demonstrate its most importany properties. TERM 7
Industrial Revolution
DEFINITION 7 The social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing and urbanization that resulted from theological invovations and specialization. TERM 8
Nation-State
DEFINITION 8 A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity. The ideal form to which most nations and states aspire. TERM 9
Nation
DEFINITION 9 All citizens of a state; a group of tight knit people possessing langauage, ethincity, and religion. TERM 10
Centrifugal forces
DEFINITION 10 To designate forces that end to divide a country
Primate city
A county's largest city, ranking atop the urban hierarchy most expressive of the national culture and usually the capital city as well. TERM 17
Metropolis
DEFINITION 17 urban agglomeration consisting of a cantral city and its subrurban ring. TERM 18
Central Business
District
DEFINITION 18 The downtown heart of a central city; marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings TERM 19
Supranationalism
DEFINITION 19 involving 3 or more states-political, economic, and cultural coorporation o promote shared industrilization. TERM 20
Devolution
DEFINITION 20 The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central governmnent
Four Motors of Europe
France, Germany, Spain, Italy. Each is a high-technology driven region marked by exceptional industrial vitality and economic successnot onlywithin Europe but on the global scene as well. TERM 22
Regional State
DEFINITION 22 A natural economic zone that defies political boundries and is shaped by the global economy of which it is a part; its leaders deal directly with foreign partners and negogiate the best terms they can with the national governments under which they operate. TERM 23
Site
DEFINITION 23 The internal locational attributes of an urban center, including its local spatial organization and physical setting TERM 24
Situation
DEFINITION 24 The external locational attributes of an urban center; its relative location or regional position position eith reference to other nonlocal places. TERM 25
Conurbation
DEFINITION 25 General term used to identify a large multimetropolitan complexed formed by the coalescnce of 2 or more major urban areas.
Exclave
A bounded piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies seperated from it by the territory of an another state. TERM 32
Irredentism
DEFINITION 32 A policy of cultural extension and political potential expansion by a state aimed at a communtiy of its nationals living in a neighboring state.
