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Samenvatting Aardrijkskunde Keywords Chapter 3
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Absolute numbers
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Actual quantities or amounts
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Bilateral aid
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Development aid given by one country (donor)
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Birth control
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Planning the number of children in a family
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Caste system
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Division of Indian society into different social
groups (castes). There is a lot of inequality between the groups.
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Coastal plain
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A flat area with an altitude below 500 m
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Colony
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A county overseas that belongs to another
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Coriolis effect
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Because the Earth rotates, the wind turns to the
right in the northern hemisphere, and the left in the southern hemisphere
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Cultural region
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Large regions with similar cultural
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Demographic transition model
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Model that shows four periods in the long-term
natural increase in population in a country
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Deterioration of the terms of trade
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When the relationships between the price level
of import products and the price level of export products (=terms of trade) becomes less
favourable for a country
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Developed country
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Rich country with a high level of development
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Developing country
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Poor country with a low level of development
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Development cooperation
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Help given by rich countries to developing
countries
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Diversification
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Happens when an economy starts selling
different products instead of only one
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Drainage basin
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An area of land where the water drains
downhill into a river and its tributaries
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Dual economy
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Economy with a modern, developed part and a
traditional, less developed part
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Economic power bloc
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Country or cooperating countries producing a
lot of goods and with a large market with a high level of purchasing power
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Elite
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A small group of people in a society who have
a lot of economic and political power
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Emergency aid
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Help given so that people can survive when
there is a family or other type of disaster
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Emerging country
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Country with and economy that is growing fast
but has a low GDP per inhabitant
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European Union (EU)
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A group of twenty-seven European countries
that want safety, democracy and freedom for all Europeans
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Exchange rate
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How much a country’s currency is worth in
terms of another country’s currency
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Exploitation colony
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Colony that was used to provide raw materials
for developing industry in Europe
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Federation
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Political system with a united group of states
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Free market economy
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Companies decide for themselves which
products to make (capitalist system of production
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Globalization
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Growing international exchange of people,
money, goods and ideas
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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Total production in a country expressed in
money
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Gross National Product (DNP)
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The amount of money (billions of euros) that
all the people who live in a country earn together
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High mountain range
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Range of mountains with peaks higher than
1500 m
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Informal sector
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Unskilled, temporary, low-paid work in the
service sector
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Joint venture
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When a company involved in a foreign
investment works with a company or the government of the country concerned
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Low-wage economy
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Country where the workers are paid low wages
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Market
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The number of customers who want to buy
products
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Masses
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The vast majority of the population
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Maximum
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Area where there is too much air flow:
high-pressure area
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Metropolis
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Enormous agglomeration
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Microcredit
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Small loans to people in developing countries
who want to start their own small businesses but cannot borrow money from an
‘ordinary’ bank
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Minimum
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Area where there is not enough air flow:
low-pressure area
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Monsoon
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A wind that reverses its direction every six
months
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Multilateral aid
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Development aid given by a group of countries
(donor)
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Multinational
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A company that does business all over the
world
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Natural border
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A border along a natural obstacle such as a
river or a mountain range
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Offshore wind
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Wind that blows from the land towards the sea
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One-child policy
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Couples are not allowed to have more than one
child (China)
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Onshore wind
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Wind that blows from sea toward land
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Outsourcing
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Sending work to companies in another country
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Passat
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Easterly wind that blows towards the tropical
minimum on the equator (from the subtropical maximum)
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Peninsula
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Area surrounded by water on three sides
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Plateau
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A flat area with an altitude higher than 500 m
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Polar maximum
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High-pressure area at the Poles: cold
temperatures cause the air to cool and sink
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Political system
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The way in which a state is governed
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Population chart (or pyramid)
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Chart / pyramid showing the age distribution of
the population
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Population explosion
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Fast population growth due to a falling death
rate and high birth rate
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Rain shadow
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Are where very little rain falls, situated behind
a mountain
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Raw materials
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Materials that a factory uses to produce goods
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Relative numbers
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Date expressed as percentages or permillages
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Relief
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Differences in altitude in a landscape
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Savannah climate
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Tropical climate (warm and moist) with a dry
season
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Self-subsistence
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When people produce something for their own
use (i.e. not to sell)
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Slum
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A neighbourhood that people build themselves,
where housing is poor, amenities are scarce and the inhabitants have an uncertain future
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Social structure
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the groups that make up a society and the way
in which they interact
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South-west monsoon
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Moist tropical sea wind from the Indian Ocean
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Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
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‘open’ areas where foreign companies can
establish themselves and pay a low rate of tax
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Subpolar minimum
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Low-pressure area at 60° latitude
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Subtropical maximum
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High-pressure area at 30° latitude
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Sustainable development aid
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Aid that helps people in the long term
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Tropical minimum
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Low-pressure area on the equator: heat causes
the air to rise and flow away
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Tropics
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Temperature zone on Earth between 23½° NL
and 23½° SL
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