Quizlet amanda's human geo key terms

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  1. Greenwich Mean Time: the timezome encompassing the prime meridian
  2. Gross Domestic Product: the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a contry in any given period
  3. Guest Workers: workers who migrate to a more developed country in search of highers paying jobs
  4. Habit: a repetitive act performed by an indaviual
  5. hearth: the region where innovative ideas originate
  6. hierarchical diffusion: the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority to other persons or places
  7. hierarchical religion: a religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
  8. horticulture: the growing of fruits, veggies, and flowers
  9. hull: the outer covering of a seed
  10. hydroelectric power: power generated from running water
  11. ideograms: a system of writting that uses symbols to represent ideas or concepts
  12. immigration: migration to a new location
  13. imperialism: control of a territory already occupied by an indigenous society
  14. industrial revolution: a series of improvments in industry technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
  15. infant mortality rate: the number of deaths in a year of infants under 1 for every 1000 born
  16. intensive subsistance agriculture: a form of subsistance agriculture that requires larg amounts of labor to make the largest crop possible on small plots of land
  17. internal migration: permanent movment within a particular country
  18. international date line: an arc that follows the 180 longitude and moves the clock 1 day head when traveling west and one day back when traveling east
  19. international migration: movment from one country to another
  20. interregional migration: movment within a region of a country
  21. intervening obstacle: an enviormental or cultural feature that hinders migration
  22. isogloss: a boundary that separates regions in which different language usage is predominate
  23. isolated language: a language that is unrelated to any other languages and not attached to any language family
  24. labor-intensive industry: an industry in which labor cost comprises a high percentage of total expenses
  25. landlocked state: a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
  26. language: a system of comunication though speech that is understood by a group of people
  27. language branch: a collection of languages related through the use a common ancestor. more distinct then a family but less similar then a group
  28. language group: a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin that is relatively recent with few differances in grammar
  29. latitude: a numbering system used to indicate location of parallels down a globe and meassuring distance north and south of the equator
  30. less developed county: a country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of its economic development
  31. life expectancy: the average number of years one can expect to live within a particular country
  32. lingua franca: a language mutualy understood by speakers of two differance native laguages used to conduct trade
  33. literacy rate: the percent of people in a particular country that can read and write
  34. literary tradition: the written language
  35. location: the position on earths surface
  36. longitude: a numbering system used to indicate location and meassureing distance running west and east of the prime meridian
  37. map: a two-dimensional representaion of earths surafce or portion of it