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Movement in Geography (defininitions are in italics, "beyond…
Movement in Geography (defininitions are in italics, "beyond definitions" are in bold)
Migration: Movement of something to another place 
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Carrying capacity: The number of people or things that can be hold by a vessel at one given time-This could technically apply to trade, but I think this speaks to the problems we face as countries go past their carrying capacity in terms of immigrants
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Mexico: A country in Central America that borders America and multiple countries belonging to Latin America -There is a huge border crisis right now at the U.S.-Mexico border
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Syria: A country in the Middle East bordered by Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and Israel -Many refugees are fleeing the violence in the middle east looking for asylum in Europe and America
Undocumented immigrant: A immigrant without legal documents to prove housing within a particular country
UNHRC: A United Nations organization focused on human rights across the globe (United Nations Human Rights Council)
Globalization and Trade: (see definitions provided to the right)
Balance of trade: The difference between a countries imports or exports -Essentially the break even of trade
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China: A country in Asia bordering Mongolia, Vietnam, and a variety of other Asian countries
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Choke point: An small area one must pass through to get through to the other side -The official definition is a point of blockage
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Container ship: A ship containing shipping containers -The more space saved, the cheaper! (bigger ships stacked with shipping containers will get you a better price)
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Fair trade: A system that regulates trade at makes sure the prices or offers being exchanged are fair to all parties -Essentially a system to make sure neither party is being exploited
Globalization: Interaction between countries concerning economic, political, and cultural interests -There are arguments to be made that globalization is either good or bad
Global supply chain: When companies split up different parts of manufacturing over multiple countries rather than one factory
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Infrastructure: Very basic systems in place to make sure everything in a specific society function on some level -Infrastructure is the skeleton of society
Losers from globalization: People who globalization has negatively impacted, whether they are aware of it or not
Mexico: A country in Central America that borders America and multiple countries belonging to Latin America
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Trade: The exchange between parties of goods or services for some kind of cost -In a economic setting, the same applies
Winners from globalization: People who benefit from globalization -They are generally benefiting from quality products, cheap labor, cheap products etc.
Comparative advantage: The idea that certain people can do certain economic activities (like making a product) better than other people
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Urbanization: The process of making an area more urban -This is generally due to the raise in demand for cities via a raise in population
Brain drain: Movement of intelligent people out of a current living area simply because of their intelligence -Meaning that brain drains on poorer neighborhoods only help a few people, holding the rest of lower class down with the endless cycle of poverty
Favela: Slums in Brazil -There is no real urban planning behind the favelas, so the houses look stacked on top of each other and messy
Arab Spring:
Anti-government protests taking place in Tunisia from 2010 to 2012 -The Arab Spring protests mainly stemmed from mass unemployment
Gentrification: Renovating a property of any kind to appeal to a middle class or possibly bourgeoisie taste and/or budget -Gentrification is a fancy term for renovation of a building or several buildings/districts/neighborhoods
Megacity: A city with a population of more than 10 million -There used to be three, but now we have 21
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Primate city: A city disproportionately larger in population than the general geographic boundaries in which it falls -i.e. New York city has a disproportionately large population compared with the rest of the population in New York state
Rural to urban migration - push factors: The exact opposite of pull factors; factors that may play a part in deciding if a person or group of people will move to an urban area, specifically factors that are negative and "push" people into urban areas -Again, this is the opposite of its counterpart. Push factors are what might cause you to ditch the rural lifestyle
Rural to urban migration - pull factors: An encompassing term describing some attracting factors that might pull a person or group of people from rural areas to more urban areas -This term is exactly as it sounds. Pull factors are what is attractive about the urban lifestyle
Suburban: In between rural and urban, meaning populated areas with signs of civilization, but not highly populated with the kind of stack and pack attributes many cities and urban areas tend towards -Nowadays, suburban generally refers to the white picket fence kind of neighborhood facilitated by the 1950's american dream
Urban: A term encompassing generally more populated, developed cities or towns -A general term for tightly packed areas (cities)