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absolute location
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the position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degree, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0 to 180 E or W of the prime meridian.
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accessibility
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the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations
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activity space
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the space within which daily activities occur
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cartography
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the art and science of making maps, including data, compilation, layout and design.
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connectivity
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the degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network.
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contagious diffusion
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distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person
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cultural barrier
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prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas, or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that certain culture
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cultural complex
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a related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress code and cooking/eating utensils.
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cultural diffusion
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expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area.
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cultural ecology
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multiple interactions and relationships between cultural and the natural environment
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cultural hearth
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heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
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cultural landscape
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the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
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cultural trait
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single element of normal practice in a cultural, such as wearing a TURBAN!!!
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culture
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sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of society (Ralf Linton's def.)
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distances
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measurements of the physical space between two places
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environmental determinism
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view that the natural environment has controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development (environmentalism)
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epidemic
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a disease that is particular to a locality or region
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expansion diffusion
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spread of innovation or ideas through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination
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fieldwork
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the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
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five themes
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location, human-environment, region, place and movement.
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formal region
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type of region marked by certain degree of homogeneity in 1 or more phenomena; aka uniform or homogenous region
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functional region
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region defined by the particular set of activities or interaction that occur within it
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generalized maps
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help us see general trends
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geocaching
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a hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are place on the internet by other geocachers
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geographic concept
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ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions.
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geographic info systems (GIS) |
collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial date to be collected, recorded, stores, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user |
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globalization |
the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale impact |
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global positioning system (GPS) |
satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. |
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hieracrchical diffusion |
form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples |
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human-environment |
reciprocal relationship between human and environment |
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human geography |
one of the two major divisions of geography the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities and landscapes. |
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independent invention |
the term of a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independence of each other |
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isotherm |
line on a map connecting point of equal temperature values |
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landscape |
overall appearance of an area |
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location |
geographical situation of people and things |
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location theory |
a logical attempts to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity, and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. |
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medical geography |
the study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective |
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mental |
image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by and individual's perception, impression and knowledge of that space |
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movement |
the mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet |
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pandemic |
an outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide |
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pattern |
the design of a spatial distribution (scattered or concentrated) |
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perception of place |
belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures |
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perceptual region |
region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity |
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physical geography |
one of two major divisions of sytematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals and topography |
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place |
uniqueness of a location |
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political ecology |
an approach to studying nature-society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect and are the result of the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated |
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possiblism |
Geographic view point- a response to determination that holds human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development, nonetheless, possibilists view the environment as providing a set of broad constrains that limits the possibilities of human choice |
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reference maps |
maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference |
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region |
an area on the earth's surface marked by degree of formal, functional, perceptual homogenity of some phenomena |
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relative location |
the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places |
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relocation diffusion |
sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones |
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remote sensing |
a method of collecting data info through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area of object of study |
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rescale |
involvement of a player sat other scales to generate support for a position or initiative |
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sense of place |
state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important event that occureed in that place |
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sequent occupance |
the notion that sequencive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place,each contributing to the landscape |
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spatial |
pertaining to, involving, or having the nature of space on the earths surface |
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spatial distribution |
physical location of geographic phenomena across space |
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spatial interaction - intervening opppurtunity |
the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminshes the attractiveness offsite further away |
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stimulus diffusion |
form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the intro of a cultural trait from another place |
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thematic maps |
Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of show attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon |
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time- distance decay |
the declining degree of acceptance of an ideas or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source |