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61 Cards in this Set
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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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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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activity space |
the space within when daily activities occur |
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cartography |
the art and science of making maps, including data, compliation, 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 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 or origin to a wider area |
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cultural ecology |
multiple interactions and relationships between culture and the natural enviroment |
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cultural health |
heartland,source,area,innovation center; place of origin of a major culture |
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cultural landscape |
the visible imprint of a human activity and culture on the landscape |
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cultural trait |
single element of a normal practice in a culture, such as wearing a turban |
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culture |
sum total of the knowledge, attitude, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of a society |
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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 of over various aspects of human life, including cultural development |
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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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the five themes |
location human-environment place region movement |
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formal region |
type of region marked by certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena |
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functional region |
region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions 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 questons |
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geographic info system (GIS) |
collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected,recorded,manipulated,analyzed, and displayed to the user |
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globilization |
the expansion or 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 an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples |
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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 temperate 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 explain 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 geographical perspective |
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mental map |
image of picture of the way space is organize as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space |
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sequent occupance |
the notion that sequencive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscapes |
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time-distance decay |
the declining degree of acceptance of an ideas or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source |
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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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rescale |
involvement of player sat other scales to generate support for a position or initative |
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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 opportunity |
the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites further away |
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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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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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remote sensing |
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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stimulus diffusion |
form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of tr intro of a cultural trait from another place |
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perception of place |
belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories, or pictures |
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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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place |
uniqueness of a location |
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possibilism |
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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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 |
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perceptual region |
region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity |
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physical geogrpahy |
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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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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relocation diffusion |
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 |
