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22 Cards in this Set
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Absolute location |
The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0 to 90 N or S of the equator, and longitude, 0 to 180 E or W of the prime meridian. |
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Contagious diffusion |
Distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from 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. |
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Cultural landscape |
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. |
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Distances |
Measurements of the physical space between two places. |
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Expansion diffusion |
Spread of innovation or 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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Environmental determinism |
View that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development (environmentalism). |
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Fieldwork |
The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places. |
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Five themes |
Location, human-environment, region, place, and movement. |
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Formal region |
Type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; a.k.a. uniform or homogeneous region. |
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Absolute direction |
A compass direction such as north or south are absolute directions. Saying that Canada is North or the US is an example of absolute direction. |
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Absolute distance |
An absolute distance is the exact measurement of the physical space between two places. Using the amount of miles that separates two places is an example of absolute distance. |
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Area distortion |
Disadvantages for Maps depicting the entire world of the: shape, distance, relative size, and direction of places on maps. |
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Census data |
A periodic and official count of country’s population. |
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Clustering |
Objects in an area are close together. |
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Dispersal |
Objects in an area are relatively far apart. |
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Elevation |
The height of physical features such as mountains is measured from the Sea level rather than the ground level. |
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Field observation |
A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reactions vary. |
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Flows |
A pattern of migration in which migrants move back and forth between two or a small number of places, such as their home and a distant work-site. |
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Global scale |
The geographic scale realm encompassing all of earth. |
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Local scale |
Distinctive site or physical characteristic of each place on earth. |
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Regional scale |
Can apply to any area larger than a point and smaller than the entire planet. |
