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Absolute location |
The position or place or plae of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degree minutes, and secons of latitude, 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 unadoptable in that certain culture |
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Cultural complex |
A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes anc 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 knoledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of society |
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Distances |
Measurements of the physical space between two place |
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Environmental dterminism |
View that the natural environment has controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural developement |
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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 continiously 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 matked by certain degree of homogeneityin 1 or more phenomena; aka uniform or homogenous region |
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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 questions |
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Gis |
Collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stores, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed l, and displayed to the user |
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Globalization |
The expansion of exonomic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale impact |
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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 udea or innovation spreads by passingfirst 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 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 develope independance 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 grographic context and ftom a geographical perspective |
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Mental map |
Image or picture of the way space is organize as determine by and individuals perception, impression, and knoledge 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 |
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Perception of place |
Belief of understanding about a place developed though books, movie, stories, or pictures |
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Perceptual region |
Region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as physically demarcated entity |
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Physical geography |
One of two major divisions of systematic geography the spatial analysis of the dtructure processes and location of earths 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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Possiblism |
Geographic view point a response to determination that holds the human decision making not the environment is the crucial factor in cultural developement noneless possibilists view the environment as providing a set of broad constrains that limits the possibilities of himan 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 earths 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 diffusion |
Sequential diffusion processin which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the 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 are 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 occured in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character |
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Sequent occupance |
The notion the sequencive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to cumulatuve cultural landscape |
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Spatial |
Pertaining to involving or having the nature of space on the earths surface |
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Spatial distribution |
Phyysical 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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Stimulus diffusion |
Form 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 innovations with increasing time and distance from its points point origin or source |