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15 Cards in this Set
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polder
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Land created by Dutch by draining water from area
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toponym
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The name given to aportion of the Earth's surface (city, state, etc.)
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situation
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relative location; where aplace it related to other places
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site
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physical characteristics
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meridian
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North-South (longitude)
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parallel
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East-West (latitude) ♦lats are flat♦
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Greenwich Mean Time(GMT)
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Time zone placed along the Prime Meridian (0* longitude)
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International Date Line
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Line that follows 180* long. ◄ back 24 hours, ► forward 24 hours
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cultural landscape/regional studies
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Area fashioned from nature by a cultural group; a combonation of cultural features(language & religion) economic features(agriculture & industry) and physical features (climate & vegetation)
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environmental determinism
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19th-20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that general laws needed by geographers could be found with physical science.
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formal(uniform, or homogeneous) region
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An area where people are alike ad share one or more similar characterists (ethnicy, religion, etc.)
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funtional(or nodal) region
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Area organized around a nodal or focal point (radio station, industry, etc.)
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vernacular(or perceptual) region
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Regions made from someone's informal sense of place rather than from scientific models (mental map)
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cultural ecology
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Geographic approach that emphasizes human-enviromental relationship
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possibilism
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The theory of people modifying their environment to make it useful to them
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