Human Geography vocab quizz 31.3

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Site factor

Factors that relate to the unique characteristics of a location (labour, land and capital).

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Situation factor

Factors that relate to how the location of the place relates to other things.

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Megacity

Cities that have 10 million to 19,999,999 population.

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Metacity

Cities that have over 20 million population.

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Core country

Very important countries that can impact global economics (socially developed, capitalist).

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Semi-periphery country

Countries with the economics are growing; sometimes the economy is huge but the country is maybe communist or socially not that developed.

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Periphery country

Countries do not have a big impact on global economics; poor countries and developing socially.

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Rank-size rule

When a country’s second largest settlement (city) is a half the population of the largest settlement.

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Primate city

When the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.

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Gravity model

About how cities pull people into them.

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