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Movement In Geography 
Urbanization
- Brain drain: when educated people leave rural areas and move to more urban areas
- Carrying capacity: the number of people an environment can support
- Choke point: A narrow passage for boats to go through
- Rural: a place the has characteristic of the countryside
- Primate city: a city the has the population double that of the second largest city. London is a primate city
- Urban: more built, the city
- Mexico: Mexico has a primate city, Mexico City
- Infrastructure: the physical features of a place. ie roads, buildings, and sewage
- China: is number one in exports and is very urban
- Creative Destruction: something new becomes what was old. ie. online video streaming(Netflix), this took the place of discs.
- Gentrification: when someone renovates or improves a house or district
- Megacity: a city with ore than 10 million people. some examples are New York, Tokyo, Mexico city
- Rural to urban migration – pull factors: more economic opportunity, family ties, more excitement in the city.
- Suburban: usually a neighborhood lying out side of the city
- Syria: in western Asia there is lots of war and the country is in poverty.
- Vancouver: its in British Columbia, Canada, it touches the north pacific ocean allowing for trade.
Migration
- Immigrant: a person who comes to live in a foreign in a different country
- UNHRC: United Nations Human Rights Council, there mission is to help protect human rights around the world
- Undocumented Immigrant: someone who is born in a foreign country and does not have an immigration documentation
- Favela: a slum, a Brazilian shack
- Refugee: someone who has to leave there country becuase there life is in danger
- Documented Immigrant: Someone from a foreign country who has papers showing that he/she is document
- Asylum: when a nation provides shelter to those who are from foreign countries.
- Rural to urban migration – push factors: lack of economic opportunity, no jobs, lack of health care, lack of education.
- Rural to urban migration – pull factors: more economic opportunity, family ties, more excitement in the city.
Globalization and trade
- Commodity: Raw material
- Exports: When a country/place ships good or services to other place's
- Services: When someone does work for someone else. ie. haircuts, chef, waiters
- Trade: When someone buys goods or services :
- Container ship: A ship specially designed for carrying cargo/containers. ie. Cosco taurus
- Goods: merchandise or items.
- Imports: When a place gets shipments of goods/services
- Fair trade: When a fair price is paid to the producers. ie. The price for a place that produces fruit can not drop below $1.40
- Balance of trade: the difference in value of a country's exports and imports. ie. the U.S is -44.5 Billion, meaning that the U.S imports more than it exports.
- Specialization: a country that specializes in a product or service that there good at. ie. china specializes in making iron, steel, aluminum, and textiles
- Global supply chain: different parts made in different places. ie. ford, apple
- Globalization: How countries interact. A a great example is global supply chian, different parts made in different countries/places
- Per capita: for each person. a common way per capita is used is in the GDP
- Scarcity: Not enough stuff to go around.
- Losers from globalization: are workers becuase of immigration and trade they cant find well paid work anywhere else
- Winners from globalization: the richer people and middle class because big company's are doing really well.
- Arab Spring: was a whole bunch of protest against the government about there standard of living