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- Fragmented State
- A state that includes several discontinous pieces of territory
- Emigration
- Migration from a location
- Fundamentalism
- Literal interpretion and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or religious branch, denomination, or sect)
- Functional Region
- An area organized around a node or focal point
- Fordist Production
- Form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly
- Enclosure Movement
- The process of consolidation small land-holding in to a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century
- Ebonics
- Dialect spoken by some African Americans
- Expansion Diffusion
- The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
- Functional ( or nodal) Region
- An area organized around a node of an urban area or a focal point
- Fusion
- Creation of energy by the joining of two hydrogen atoms to form helium
- Extinct Languages
- A language that was once used by people in their daily activities but is no longer used
- Greenhouse Effect
- Anticipated increase in Earth's temperature, caused by carbon dioxide (emitted by burning fossil fuels) trapping some
- Green Revolution
- Rapid duffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high yield seeds and fertilizers
- Greenbelt
- A ring of land maintained as parks, agricultural, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area
- Folk Culture
- Culture traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous group living in relative isolation from other groups
- Ethnic Religion
- A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its asherents are concentrated
- Economic Base
- A community's colelction of basic industries
- Nodal Region
- An area organized around a node or focal point
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
- Forced Immigration
- Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
- Diocese
- The basic unit of organization in the Roman Catholic Church
- Elongated State
- A state with a long narrow shape
- Edge City
- A large node of office and retail activities on the edge
- Double Cropping
- Harvesting twice a year from the same field
- Dipersed Rural Settlement
- A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages
- Grain
- Seeds of cereal grass
- Doubling Time
- The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
- Geothermal Energy
- Energy from a steam or hot water produced from hot or molten underground rocks
- Formal Region
- An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
- Floodplain
- The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends
- Ethnicity
- Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
- Franglais
- A term used by the French for the Englishwords that entered into the French language, a combination of francais and englais, the French words for French and English respectively
- Federal State
- An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government
- Distance Decay
- The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
- Filtering
- A process of change in the use of a house, from a single family owner occupancy to abandonment
- Ghetto
- During the middle-ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by a law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live in because of social, legal, or economic pressure
- Globalization
- Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
- Fossil Fuel
- Energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago
- Frontier
- A zone seperating two states in which neither state exercise political control
- Distribution
- The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
- Enviromental Determinism
- a 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that srgued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography therefore was the study of how the physical enviroment caused human activities
- Fission
- The splitting of an atomic nucleus to release energy
- Gravity Model
- A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach that service
- GIS
- A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
- Ecumene
- The portion of the Earth occupied by human settlements
- Gentrification
- A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area