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40 Cards in this Set
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Location
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Explains where something is on the Earth and the effects that position has on human life
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Site
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Refers to a place's internal physical and cultural characteristics (such as terrain and dominant religions)
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Formal Region
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An area that has common physical or cultural features
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Functional Region
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group of places linked together by some type of movement or function
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Perceptual Region
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Group of places linked together because of perceptions about them
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Place
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All the human and physical attributes in a location
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Movement
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Movement of people, info, goods
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Distance decay
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intensity of some phenomenon decreases as the distance from it increases
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Space time compression
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"world is becoming smaller"
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Demographic Transition Model
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helps explain and predict patterns in population change over time
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Physical Geography
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Spatial analysis of the Earth's natural phenomena (where and why patrerns of climate, soil, and topography exist)
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Human Geography
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spatial analysis of human patterns on Earth and their interactions with Earth (where and why patters of religions, governments, languages, poulation, and economieis exist)
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Cartography
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Process of making a map
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Disortion
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Errors resulting from the flattening process
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Mercator Projection
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conformal because it accurately reprelsents the shape of landforms but is not equal in area
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Demography
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the study of human poulations
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Agricultural Density
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the number of farmers per unit of arable land
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Physiological density
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number of people per unit of arable land
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Overpopulation
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occurs when a region's population ourgrows its carrying capacity
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Spatial Interaction
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Interaction between two places (communication, economic transaction, migration, or travel)
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Migration
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Process of permanently moving from your home region and crossing an administrative border
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Push Factor
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Negative influences that pull a person want to move away
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Pull Factor
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Positive influences that pull a person toward a particular place
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Migration stream
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Pathway from a place of origin to a destination
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Net out migration
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When a place has more emigrants than emigtants
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Migration Counter stream
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People moving back to the place of origin from the new place
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Chain Migration
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people migrate to be with other people who migrated before them
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Refugees
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migrants fleeing some form of persecution or abuse
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Cultural Geography
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study of people's lifestyles, relationships to the Earth and the supernatural
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Possibilism
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theory that developed as a counteragent to environmental determinism
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universalising religions
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try to have an universal appeal and attract all people to their beliefs
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ethnic relifions
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appeal not to all people but to only one group
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Monotheistic
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Religions that believe in one supreme power
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Language Divergence
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Speakers of the same language scatter and develop variations of that original form of the language to meat their needs in the new new surroundings
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Language Replacement
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Invaders replace the language of those places they concur
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Conquest theory
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IE diffusion began in the empire building Kurgan culture located in the steppe region of Russia
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Monolingual states
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Contain speakers of only one language
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Official language
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declared by the leaders of a country to be the language used in legal and government proceedings
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Standard Language
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Acceptable form of a given language as declared by political or societal leaders
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Lingua Franca
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Language used to facilitate trade among groups speaking different languages
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