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Age-sex Pyramid:
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Graphic representation(profile) of a population showing the percentages of tge totak population by age and sex, normally in five-year groups.
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Agglomeration:
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A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. Thos term often refers to manufacturing plants and buisnesses that benefit from close proximity because they share skilled-labor pods and technology and finicial amenities.
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Agrarian:
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Relating to the use of land in rural communities to agriculture socities in general.
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Agribuisness:
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Farms that have been transformed into corporate like unites.
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Agricultural Industrialization:
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Machinery applied to farming.
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Agglomerated(nucleated) Settlement:
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Houses that are grouped together in tiny clusters.
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Geographic Information System(GIS):
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A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial datra to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed to nthe user.
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Geographic Realm:
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The basic spatial unit in our world regionalization scheme.Each realm is defined in terms of a synthesis of its total human geography.
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Geography:
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From the greek meaning "to write about the Earth". Concerned with the analysis of the physical and human characteristics of the Earth surface.
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Geographic Time Scale:
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The standard timetable or chronicle of the Earth history used by scientists, the sequential organization of geographic time units.
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Geometric Boundaries:
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Political boundaries defined and delimited(ocassionly demarcated)as straight lines or arcs.
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Geodemographic Analysis:
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Practice of using demographic information for the spatial distribution of anything.
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