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20 Cards in this Set
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Agricultural Density
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total rural population/ agricultural land
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Arithmetic Density
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total population/ kilometers or miles squared
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Base line
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a line that is the base for measurements
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Cartography
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The science of mapmaking
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Concentration
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The density of an object within an area.
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Connections
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Points at which two or more things meet physically or mentally.
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Contagious diffusion
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The spread of an idea by person-to-person contact.
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Cultural ecology
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The relationship between a society and it's natural environment.
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Cultural landscape
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Geographic areas showing the combined work of nature and man.
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Culture
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Shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that set apart a group from others.
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Density
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Amount within an area.
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Diffusion
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The spreading of an idea.
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Distance decay
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The effect of distance on cultural interactions.
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Distribution
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Variation in local density.
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Environmental determinism
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View that the local environment determines the culture.
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Expansion diffusion
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Where the phenomenon has a source that it spreads outwards from.
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Formal region
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A region marked by official boundaries.
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Functional region
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Region marked by it's connections.
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Geographic Information System
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Captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that is linked to location.
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GPS
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Space-based global navigation system.
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