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22 Cards in this Set
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Absolute location |
The place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0 - 90 N or S of the equator, and longitude, 0 -180 E or W of the prime meridian |
Location |
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Contagious diffusion |
Distance - controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through local population by contact from person to person |
Idea= Person to person |
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Cultural diffusion |
Expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area |
Becoming popular |
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Cultural landscape |
The way culture impacts the landscape |
Effect of humans and culture |
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Distances |
Physical space between two places |
Far |
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Environmental determinism |
Influence of humans and cultural development on natural environment |
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Expansion diffusion |
Spread of idea through population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows |
Population grows |
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Fieldwork |
Studying geographic phenomena through traveling and observing there culture and thereby change those places |
Changing someone |
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Five themes |
Location, human - environment, region, place, and movement |
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Formal region |
Homogenous region |
Type of region |
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Absolute direction |
Compass direction |
North/ south |
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absolute distance |
exact measurement of physical space between two places |
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area distortion |
disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world |
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census data |
a periodic and official count of a country population |
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clustering |
objects in an area are close together |
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dispersal |
objects in an area are far apart |
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elevation |
height of physical features |
mountains |
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field observation |
studying what people do and observing how their actions vary |
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flows |
a pattern of migration in which migrants move back and forth between two or small # of places |
home to work |
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global scale |
geographic scale realm encompassing all of earth |
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local scale |
physical characteristics of each place on earth |
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regional scale |
area larger than a point and smaller than the entire planet |
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