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Spatial System
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Any group of objects or institutions and their mutual interactions
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Hinterland
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The surrounding area served by an urban center. This area is both served by the urban central core and comes under its cultural and economic influence.
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Functional region
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A region marked less by its sameness than its dynamic internal structure, formed by a set of places and their interactions.
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Scale
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Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain eve of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to actual ground distance; shown on map as bar graph, representative fraction.
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Natural landscape
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The array of landforms that constitue the Earth's surface (mountains, hills, plains, and plateaus) and the physical features that mark them (such a water bodies, soils, and vegetation.
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Physical geography
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The spatial study of the Earth's natural phenomena and their systems, processes, and structures.
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Continental drift
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The slow movement of continents controlled by the processes associated with plate tectonics.
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Plate tectonics
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Bonded portions of the Earth's mantle and crust, called tectonic plates, averaging 60 miles in thickness. More than a dozen such plates exist.
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Subduction
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In plate tectonics, the process that occurs when an oceanic, plate carrying a continental landmass at its leading edge. The lighter continental plate overrides the denser oceanic plate and pushes it downward.
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Pacific Ring of Fire
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zone of crustal instability along tectonic plate boundaries, marked by earthquakes and volcanic activity, that rings the Pacific Ocean basin
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