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25 Cards in this Set
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Agricultural Density |
The number of farmers per unit of farmland |
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Arithmetic Density |
Total number of objects in an area |
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Base line |
East west lines separating townships |
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Cartography |
The science of map making |
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Concentration |
The extent of a features spread over space |
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Connections |
Relationships among people in space |
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Contagious diffusion |
Rapid wide spread diffusion of characteristics |
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Cultural Ecology |
The study of human environment relationships |
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Cultural landscape |
Combination of cultural features such as language and religion |
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Culture |
The body of customary beliefs |
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Density |
The frequency something occurs in space |
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Diffusion |
The process by which characteristics spreads across space over time |
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Distance decay |
The farther away a group is from another the less likely they are to communicate |
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Distribution |
The arrangement of a feature in space |
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Environmental determinism |
How they physical environment caused social development |
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Expansion diffusion |
Features spread from one place to another in a snowball fashion |
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Gis |
A computer that can capture store and analyze data |
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Longitude |
The location of each meridian |
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Map |
Tool for communicating geographic info |
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Mental map |
An internal representation of a portion of earths surface |
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Meridian |
An arc between the north and south poles |
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Parallel |
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angle to the prime meridian |
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Pattern |
The geometric arrangement of objects in space |
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Physiological density |
The number of people per unit of suitable agriculture |
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Place |
A specific point on earth distinguished by a characteristic |
