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139 Cards in this Set
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Absolute location |
The exact spot of a place . |
Uses longitude and latitude |
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Accessibility |
The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a one location to the other |
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Cartography |
The art and science of making maps |
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 |
A spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from one person to person. |
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Cultural barrier |
A cultural that can not do certain things due to it being unacceptable to there culture |
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Cultural complex |
A related set of cultural traits
Dress codes/cooking/eating utensils |
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Cultural complex |
Related set of cultural traits |
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Cultural diffusion |
Adoption of a culture element from its origin to a wider area |
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Activity space |
A space within which Daily activities occur |
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Front (Term) Five themes |
Back (Definition) Location human-environment region place and movement |
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Front (Term) Formal region |
Back (Definition) A region marked by one or more phenomena |
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Cultural ecology |
Relationships between the culture and it's natural habitat |
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Cultural hearth |
The place where the cultural started |
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Culture |
Habitual behavior patterns shared by members of a society |
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Cultural landscape |
Visible imprint of human activity on the land related to that culture |
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Distances |
The measurement from one object to another |
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Environmental deterioration |
The view that the natural environment has controlling factors of human life |
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Epidemic |
A disease that is particular to that region |
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Expansions diffusion |
Spread of an innovation through a population in a way that it becomes huge |
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Field work |
The studding of a geographic phenomena by visits the place and recording how people I interact with it thereby changing those places |
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Activity space |
A space within which Daily activities occur |
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Front (Term) Five themes |
Back (Definition) Location human-environment region place and movement |
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Front (Term) Formal region |
Back (Definition) A region marked by one or more phenomena |
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Functional region |
Region defined by the particular set of activities that occur within it |
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Cultural ecology |
Relationships between the culture and it's natural habitat |
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Cultural hearth |
The place where the cultural started |
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Culture |
Habitual behavior patterns shared by members of a society |
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Cultural landscape |
Visible imprint of human activity on the land related to that culture |
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Distances |
The measurement from one object to another |
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Environmental deterioration |
The view that the natural environment has controlling factors of human life |
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Epidemic |
A disease that is particular to that region |
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Expansions diffusion |
Spread of an innovation through a population in a way that it becomes huge |
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Field work |
The studding of a geographic phenomena by visits the place and recording how people I interact with it thereby changing those places |
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Activity space |
A space within which Daily activities occur |
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Front (Term) Five themes |
Back (Definition) Location human-environment region place and movement |
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Front (Term) Formal region |
Back (Definition) A region marked by one or more phenomena |
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Functional region |
Region defined by the particular set of activities that occur within it |
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Generalized map |
Helps us see the general trends |
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Cultural ecology |
Relationships between the culture and it's natural habitat |
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Cultural hearth |
The place where the cultural started |
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Culture |
Habitual behavior patterns shared by members of a society |
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Cultural landscape |
Visible imprint of human activity on the land related to that culture |
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Distances |
The measurement from one object to another |
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Environmental deterioration |
The view that the natural environment has controlling factors of human life |
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Epidemic |
A disease that is particular to that region |
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Expansions diffusion |
Spread of an innovation through a population in a way that it becomes huge |
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Field work |
The studding of a geographic phenomena by visits the place and recording how people I interact with it thereby changing those places |
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Activity space |
A space within which Daily activities occur |
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Front (Term) Five themes |
Back (Definition) Location human-environment region place and movement |
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Front (Term) Formal region |
Back (Definition) A region marked by one or more phenomena |
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Functional region |
Region defined by the particular set of activities that occur within it |
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Generalized map |
Helps us see the general trends |
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Geocaching |
A hunt for a cache using the gps coordinates that are placed by other geocachers |
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Cultural ecology |
Relationships between the culture and it's natural habitat |
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Cultural hearth |
The place where the cultural started |
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Culture |
Habitual behavior patterns shared by members of a society |
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Cultural landscape |
Visible imprint of human activity on the land related to that culture |
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Distances |
The measurement from one object to another |
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Environmental deterioration |
The view that the natural environment has controlling factors of human life |
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Epidemic |
A disease that is particular to that region |
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Expansions diffusion |
Spread of an innovation through a population in a way that it becomes huge |
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Field work |
The studding of a geographic phenomena by visits the place and recording how people I interact with it thereby changing those places |
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Activity space |
A space within which Daily activities occur |
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Front (Term) Five themes |
Back (Definition) Location human-environment region place and movement |
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Front (Term) Formal region |
Back (Definition) A region marked by one or more phenomena |
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Functional region |
Region defined by the particular set of activities that occur within it |
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Generalized map |
Helps us see the general trends |
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Geocaching |
A hunt for a cache using the gps coordinates that are placed by other geocachers |
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Geographic concept |
Ways of seeing the world spatially |
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Cultural ecology |
Relationships between the culture and it's natural habitat |
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Cultural hearth |
The place where the cultural started |
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Culture |
Habitual behavior patterns shared by members of a society |
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Cultural landscape |
Visible imprint of human activity on the land related to that culture |
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Distances |
The measurement from one object to another |
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Environmental deterioration |
The view that the natural environment has controlling factors of human life |
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Epidemic |
A disease that is particular to that region |
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Expansions diffusion |
Spread of an innovation through a population in a way that it becomes huge |
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Field work |
The studding of a geographic phenomena by visits the place and recording how people I interact with it thereby changing those places |
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Cultural trait |
Single element of a normal practice in a cultural |
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GIS |
Collection of softwares that lets spatial data be collected |
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Globalization |
The expansion of economical political and cultural processes across the world |
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Globalization |
The expansion of economical political and cultural processes across the world |
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Global positioning |
Satellites based system for determining the absolute location of a place |
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Hierarchical diffusion |
The idea spreading to the most connected people first then going person to person |
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Human environment |
The relationship between the human and it's environment |
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Human geography |
Spatial analysis of a human population cultural activities and landscapes |
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Independent invention |
Many cultural hearths that have developed independence from each other |
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Independent invention |
Many cultural hearths that have developed independence from each other |
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Isotherm |
Line on map Connecting point of equal temp levels |
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Independent invention |
Many cultural hearths that have developed independence from each other |
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Isotherm |
Line on map Connecting point of equal temp levels |
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Landscape |
Overall appearance of an area |
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Independent invention |
Many cultural hearths that have developed independence from each other |
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Isotherm |
Line on map Connecting point of equal temp levels |
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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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Independent invention |
Many cultural hearths that have developed independence from each other |
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Isotherm |
Line on map Connecting point of equal temp levels |
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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 |
Logical attempts to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity |
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Independent invention |
Many cultural hearths that have developed independence from each other |
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Isotherm |
Line on map Connecting point of equal temp levels |
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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 |
Logical attempts to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity |
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Medical geography |
The study of Health and diseases on a map |
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Mental map t |
The persons mindset and knowledge of that place |
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Movement |
The mobility of people across the earth |
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Pandemic |
Outbreak of a disease that's world wide |
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Pandemic |
Outbreak of a disease that's world wide |
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Pattern |
The design of a spatial distribution |
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Pandemic |
Outbreak of a disease that's world wide |
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Pattern |
The design of a spatial distribution |
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Perception of a place |
The "understanding" about a place based on media |
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Pandemic |
Outbreak of a disease that's world wide |
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Pattern |
The design of a spatial distribution |
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Perception of a place |
The "understanding" about a place based on media |
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Perceptual region |
The region that's only based on conception |
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Physical geography |
The spatial analysis of structure |
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Physical geography |
The spatial analysis of structure |
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Place |
Uniqueness of the location |
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political ecology |
approach to studying nature-society relations in the way that they relate to political context |
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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 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 map |
maps showing absolute location |
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region |
an area marked on the earth by one of the three regions |
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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
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sequential diffusion process in 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
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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 |
of placestate 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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spatial interaction
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- intervening opportunity the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites further away
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spatial distribution
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physical location of geographic phenomena across space
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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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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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stimulus diffusion time-distance decaythe declining degree of acceptance of an ideas or innovation with increasing time and distance from its points point of origin or source
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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 ideas or innovation with increasing time and distance from its points point of origin or source
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