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27 Cards in this Set
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How do Geographers explain where they are? |
Geographers use terms about where and why? |
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Hemispheres |
Southern Northern divided by the Equator Eastern Western divided by Prime Meridian |
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Continents |
North and South America Europe Australia Asia Antarctica and Africa |
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Situation |
How a place physically relates to another place |
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Toponym |
A name given to a place |
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Site |
Physical Characteristics of a place |
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Formal Region |
An area where everyone shares one or more distinct characteristics |
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Functional Region |
An area organized around a focal point |
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Vernacular Region |
An area that exists as a cultural identity Not exact |
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Distribution |
How features are arranged spatially density concention and pattern |
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Density |
The frequency with which something occurs in space |
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concentration |
The extent of a features spread things are considered clustered if they are close |
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Pattern |
The geometric arrangement of objects in space |
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culture |
launguage tradition beliefs of groups of people that make them unique |
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contagious diffusion |
a rapid spread of ideas no need for structure |
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hierarchical diffusion |
a trend spreads with athority |
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Stimulus diffusion |
changes through spread |
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Relocation diffusion |
physical movement |
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hearth |
when something starts |
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diffusion |
the spread of something |
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Friction of distance |
a measure of what degree distance affects interaction |
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Distance decay |
the idea of how far split things are the don't interacts much |
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globalization |
is when things travel through the world and makes the world feel smaller |
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Time space |
idea of the world decreasing in size |
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Earths systems |
Lithosphere:land Atmosphere:air Hydrosphere:water Biosphere:life |
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sustainability 3 pillers |
economic social environment |
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sustainibilty |
the resources humans use |
