Human Geo Unit I

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Arithmetic Density

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total number of people divided by total land area

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Physiological Density

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number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture

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Diffusion

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process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time.

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hearth

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place from which an innovation originates. nation much me equipped to support and facilitate innovation.

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relocation diffusion

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spread of an idea through physical movement of people from on place to antoher (this is seen primarily is the spread of language)

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expansion diffusion

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the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process

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hierarchical

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spread of idea from ppl of power to other persons or places. This includes urban to rural. hip hop or rap music

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contagious diffusion

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rapid widespread diffusion throughout the popultaion. AIDS. ideas spread on the web

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Stimulus Diffusion

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spread of underlying prinicple, while characteristic itself does not diffuse. (the clicking idea of Mac computers)

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Toponym

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the name given to ap lace on earth. most straightfoward way to describe sometimes peculiar places

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GPS (Global Positioning System)

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accurately determines the precise postion of something one earth. coding precise locations.

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GIS (Geographical infromation system)

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computer system that graphs, stores, querys, analyzes and displays geographic data. any place can be mathmatically calculated and mapped. layered information.

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Site

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way in describing location. physcial character of the place. climate, water sources, topograhy, soil, vegetation, latitdue, and elevation.

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Situation

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the location of a place relative to other places.

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Possibilism

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theory that the physical enviroment may ste limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from amany alternatives. exemplified in chosing what crop to grow

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environmental determinism

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a 1800's 1900's approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused the human activities.

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relative distance

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distance measured by specifyed reference point, ususally moving

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region

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an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features

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scale

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generally the relationship between the the porthion of earth being studied and earth as a whole, specifcally the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on the Earth's surface

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demograhic transition model

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shows the process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition o f low crude birth and death rate, low rate of natural increase, and highet total pop.

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Stage one of demographic transition model

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low growth, generally high yet varried birth and death rates.hunting and gathering. unpredictable food supplies.

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Stage Two of demographic transition model

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HIGH GROWTH. birth rate remains high and death rate decreases.(18th and 19th centuries). Industrial revolution. medical rev.

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Stage Three of demographic transition model

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there is still increase just less rapid. societal changes invoke smaller CBR rates. also less moralities. stage three sees more city than rural dwellers.

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Stage four of demographic transision model

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CBR equals CDR. society encourage smaller family. zero growht. more women working. strong family planning programs.

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gravity model

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a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related ot the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. the more ppl around the more success...farther the distace of ppl, the less success

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van thunen model

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importance of location of crops to market. different types of farming are different locations depending on cost of transportion. (horticulture and dairy beging the closest in) then foresty, crop ratation and grazing