Ashley's Chapter 1: De Blij Cards

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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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Absolute Location

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The position or place pf a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degree, minutes, and seconds of latitiude, o to 90 N or S of the equator, and longitude, o to 180 E or W of the prime meridian.

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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 attitide rendering certain innovations, ideas, or practices unnacceptable 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 codes 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 and culture and the natural enviroment.

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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 culture 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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Enviromental Determinism

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View that the natural enviroment has controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural developement (enviromentalism)

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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 populaton in an area in such a way that the number of those influences 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-enviroment, 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 homogenious 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 cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed 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 System (GIS)

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Collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stores, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user.

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Globalization

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The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processesto the point that they become global in a scale impact.

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

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Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features.

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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Form of diffusion in which and idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.

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Human Enviroment

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Reciprocal relationship between human and environment.

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Human Geography

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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

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The term of a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independence of each other.

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Isotherm

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Line on a map connecting point of equal temperate values.

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Landscape

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Overall appearance of an area.

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Location

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Geographical situation of people and things.

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Location Theory

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A logical attempt 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

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The study of health and disease withing a geographic context and from a geographical perspective.

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Mental Map

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Image or picture of the way space is organize as determined by and individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space.

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Movement

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The mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet.

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Pandemic

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An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide

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Pattern

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The design of a spatial distribution (scattered or concentrated).

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Perception of Place

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Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories, or pictures.

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Perceptual Region

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Region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcrated entity.

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Physical Geography

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One of two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processees, and location of Earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography.

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Place

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Uniqueness of a location.

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Political Ecology

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An approach to studying nature-society 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

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Geographic view point- a response to determination that holds the human decision making, not the enviroment as providing a set of broad constraints that limits the possibilists view the environment as providing a set of broad constraints that limits the possibilities of human choice.

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Reference Maps

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Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitute.

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Region

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An area on the earth's surface marked by degree of formal, functional, perceptual, homogeneity of some phenomenon.

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Relative Location

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The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.

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Relocation Diffusion

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Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones.

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Remote Sensing

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A method of collecting data of info through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the are or object of study.

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Rescale

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Involvement of player sat other scales to generate support for a position or initiative.

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Sense of Place

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State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important event that occured in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.

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Sequent Occupance

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The notion that sequencive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.

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Spatial

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Pertaining to, involving or having the nature of space on the earth's surface.

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Spatial Distribution

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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.

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Spatial Interaction- Intervening Opportunity

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The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites further away.

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Stimulus Diffusion

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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

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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

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The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its points point of origin or source.