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30 Cards in this Set
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Human Geography
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the study of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes
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Globalization
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the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The outcomes vary across places and scales.
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Spatial Distribution
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physical location of geographic phenomena across space
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Spatial Perspective
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observing variations in geographic phenomena across space.
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Five Themes of Geography
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coming from the spatial perspective of goegraphy they are; location, human-environment interactions, region, place, and movement.
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Spatial Interaction
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depends on the distances of places, the accessability of places, and the connectivity among places.
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Landscape
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the overall appearence of an area.
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Cultural Landscape
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the visible imprint of human activity and culture. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts imprinted by the activities of various human occupants.
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Cartography
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the art and sciene of making maps, including, data, layout, and design.
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Referance Maps
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maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame citation, typically latitude and longitude.
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Thematic Maps
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maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of one attribute or the movement of a gegraphic phenomenon.
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Absolute Location
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the position or place of a certain item on the suface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds
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Relative Location
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the regional position of a place related to the position of other places
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Global Positioning System
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a satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features.
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Mental Map
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an image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
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Generalized Map
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help us see general trends, but we cannot see all cases of a given phenomenon.
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Geographic Information Systems
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a collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrived, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user
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Culture
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the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
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Culture Complex
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a related set of cultural trait such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
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Cultural Hearth
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heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
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Independent Invention
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the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other
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Cultural Diffusion
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the expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area
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Time Distance Decay
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the declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source
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Cultural Barriers
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when one culture can't accept or adopt practices or habits from another culture resulting in a...
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Expansion Diffusion
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the spread of an idea 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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Contagious Diffusion
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the spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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a form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.
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Stimulus Diffusion
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a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptaion is created as result of the introduction id a cultural trait from another place
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Relocation Diffusion
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the diffusion proccess in which the items being diffused are evacuating the old areas and relocating to new one. The most common form is a migrating population.
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Environmental Determinism
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the view that natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development.
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