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14 Cards in this Set
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Chicago lies at 41 degrees, 53 minutes North Latitude and 87 degrees, 38 minutes West Longitute.
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absolute location
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Certain characteristics of a region include location, limits, and
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area
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limits or
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boundaries
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the spreading of ideas from one place to another
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diffusion
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mapping of the ___ of people afflicted by certain illnesses led researchers directly to the sources of the illnesses and thus to remedies for them.
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diffusion
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relationships and actions between humans and enviorment, also a subdivision of geography
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enviormental geography
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the total impression idividuals have of their surrounding which create a mental map
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enviormental perception
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example-a desert basin marked by severe aridity, sandy surface, and steep surrounding mountain slops
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formal region
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example-surrounding region within which workers comute
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functional region
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What is geographic information systems?
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layers of imformation that can determine where a airport could be located.
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hamlets, villages, towns, and cities.
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hierarchy
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cutting down trees, hair spray use, factories burning fuel, cars
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human-enviormental interaction
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spatial analysis of human population, cultures, and activities and landscapes
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human geography
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logical attempt to explain the pattern of economic activity and the mannner in which its producing areas are interrelated
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location theory
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