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Absolute Location |
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 90 N or S of the equator, and longitude, 0 to 180 E or W of the prime meridian. |
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Accessibility |
The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations |
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Activity Space |
The space within which daily activities occur |
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Cartography |
The art and science of making maps, including data, compilation, layout, and design. |
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Connectivity |
The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network |
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Contagious Diffusion |
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 |
Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas, or practices unacceptable or in adoptable in that certain culture |
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Cultural Complex |
A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking/eating utensils |
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Cultural Diffusion |
Expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area |
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Cultural Ecology |
Multiple interactions and relationships between and culture and the natural environment |
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Cultural Hearth |
Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture |
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Cultural Landscape |
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
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Cultural Trait |
Single element of normal practice in a culture, such as wearing a TURBAN!!! |
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Culture |
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 |
Measurements of the physical space between two places |
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Environmental Determinism |
View that the natural environment has controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development (environmentalism) |
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Epidemic |
A disease that is particular to a locality or region |
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Expansion Diffusion |
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 |
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 |
Location, human-environment, region, place, and movement |
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Formal Region |
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 |
Region defined by the particular set of activities or interaction that occur within it |
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Generalized Maps |
Help us see general trends |
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Geocaching |
A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are place on the internet by other geocachers |
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Geographic Concept |
Ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions |
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Geographic Info System (GIS) |
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 |
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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Hierarchical Diffusion |
Form of diffusion in which and idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people |
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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 attempt to expel in 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 Map |
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 a place |
Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories, or pictures |
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Perceptual Region |
Region that only exists is a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity |
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Physical Geography |
One of the two major divisions of systematic 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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Possibility |
Geographic view point- a response to determination that holds the 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, typically latitude and longitude |
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Region |
An area on the earth's surface marked by degree of formal, functional, perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon |
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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 Diffussion |
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 |
A method of collecting data of info through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study |
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Rescale |
Involvement of 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 occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character |
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Sequent Occupance |
The notion that sequencive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape |
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Spatial |
Pertaining to, involving, or having the nature of space on the earth's surface |
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Spatial Distribution |
Physical location of geographic phenomena across space |
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Spatial Interaction-Intervening Opprtunity |
The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites 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 points point of origin or source |