APHG

Financial Capital

Money for investment

Capital Goods

Physical items that contribute to making money

Human Capital

Education

Infrastructure

Transportation, communication, etc

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color coded maps

Primate cities

Primate Cities has more than twice the population of the next largest city AND is politically, economically, and socially dominant.

Mega cities

A city with 10 million people

Brain Drain

Smartest people leave

Internal Brain Drain

When people move from rural areas to urban areas within a country

External Brain Drain

When educated people leave developing countries for opportunities in developed countries

Sustainability

Meeting the needs of the present while not compromising the future

Enviornmental Determinism

The Idea that the environment in which we live determines the type of life we lead.

Patterns

How items are arranged in an area

Flows

Movement of people, ideas, or services

Space

The physical gap between two objects

Aggregation of data

The level of accumulated data that you are comparing global, regional, national, subnational, and local

Toponym

Place Names

Cultural Landscape

Any Combination of human activity and the physical environment

Situation

Location in Relation to (where)

Site

Physical character (whats) of a location

Relative Location

A location in relation to things around it

Absolute location

Exact Location

Clustered

Close together

Distrubution

Location

Density

Frequency

Agricultural Density

Number of farmers per arable land

Physiological Density

Number of persons per arable land

Arithmetic Density

Number of persons per unit of land