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.
