Human Geography Chapter 1: Key Terms

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feildwork

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visting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places

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human geography

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how we observe, organize, make, interact, and make sense of each other and across space

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globalization

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a set of prosesses that are deepening relationships across national borders

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spatial

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spatial arrangement of places and phenomenon

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spatial distribution

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looking at a map of how something is distributed across space

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patterns

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questions about how the arrangement of a phenomenon came about and the relationships exist between different places and things

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medical geography

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mapping the distribution of a disease

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physical geography

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spatial and material chracteristics of the human made places and people found on earths surface

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pandemics

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worldwide outbrakes of a disease

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spatial perspective

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multitude of phenomena

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epidemic

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fast spreading disease

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5 themes

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geography's spatial concerns

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location

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position of people and places on the earth's surface

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location theory

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decribing locational proporties of a particular phenomena; predicting where things are likely to occur

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human-enviornment

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how humans affect the enviornment and vise-versa

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place

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where things are position on the earths surface

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sense of place

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infusing a place with meaning, by remembering inmoptant events that occur in a place

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region

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features that tend to be more consentrated in particular areas

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perception of place

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bias for home region

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movement

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mobility of poeple, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet

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spatial interactions

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depends on distance,the accessibility of places, and the connectivity among places

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distances

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phisical space between two places

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accessibility

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ease of reaching one location to another

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connectivity

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degree of linkage between locations in a network

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landscape

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material charcter of a place

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cultural landscapes

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the visable imprint of human activity on the landscape

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cartography

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art of making maps

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refrence maps

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show location of places and geographic features

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thematic maps

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attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon

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absolute locations

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using a coordinate to describe a place

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global positioning system (GPS)

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allows us to locate things on the surface of earth with extraordinary accuracy

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geocaching

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use their GPS units, and play a treasure hunt to gain prizes

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relative location

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describes a location using other human and physical features

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mental map

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maps in our brain even if we've only herd of them

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activity spaces

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places we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity

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generalized map

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map of general trends

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remote sensing

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technology that gathers data at a distance from Earth's surface

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geographic information systems (GIS)

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a device that compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the enviornment

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rescale

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involvment of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative

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formal region

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shared cultural trait or a phisical trait

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functional region

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particuar set of of activites or interactctions that occur within it

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perceptual regions

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a set of opinions one has of a particular region

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culture

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all-encompassing term that indentifies not only the whole tangible lifestyle of peoples, but also their prevailing values and beliefs

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cultural complex

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a combination of cultual traits

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cultural hearth

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area where cultual traits develop

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cultural trait

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single attribute of a culture

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independent invention

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when a cultural trait devlopes more than one hearth withoutbeing influencing by its devlopement elsewhere, each hearth operates as a case of a independent invention

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cultural diffusion

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when ideas, people, or good move across space

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time-distance decay

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the farther a place is from a heart, the harder it is for diffusion to occur

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cultural barriers

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powerful prohibiters of cultural diffusion

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expansion diffusion

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an idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading onward

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contagious diffusion

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when an idea spreads everyone is affected

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hierarchical diffusion

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when an idea spreads it is only adopted through ranks

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stimulus diffusion

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not all the idea is adopted but, the concept is still there

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relocation diffusion

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the actual movement of indivisuals that have already adopted a idea who carry it to a new place

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environmental determinism

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human behavior, indivisually and collectively, is strongly affected by, even controlled or determined by, the physical enviornment

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possibilism

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choices that society makes dependon what its members need and on what tecnology is available to them

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cultural ecology

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an area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaption and thealturation of the enviornment

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political ecology

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fundementally concerned with the enviornmental consequences ofdominant poltical economic arrangements and understandings

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geographic concepts

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location, diffusion, culture, landscape, and region

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sequent occupance

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societies leave their cultural imprints on a place