Vocab Words Set 1

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Absolute Location

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The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees minutes and seconds of latitude

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Contiguous Diffusion

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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

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Distance- expansion and adoption of a cultural element,from its place origin to wider area

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Cultural Landscape

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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape

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Distances

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Measurements of the physical space between two places

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Environmental determinism

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View that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development

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Epansion Diffusion

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Spread of innovation or idea through a population in an area of dissemination

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Fieldwork

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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

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Location,Human-Environment,Region,place,and movement

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Formal Region

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Type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in 1 or more phenomena aka uniform or homogeneous region

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Absolute Direction

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Compass direction such as north or south are absolute directions Saying that Canada is north of the US is an example of absolute direction

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Absolute Distance

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Absolute Distance is an exact measurement of physical space between two places.Using the amount of miles that separates two places is an example of of absolute Distance

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Regional Scale

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Can apply to any area larger than a point and smaller than the entire planet

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Area distortion

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Disadvantage for maps depicting the entire world of the:shape,Distance,relative size,and direction of places on maps

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Census Data

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A periodic and official count of a country's population

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Clustering

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Objects in an area are close together

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Dispersal

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Objects in an area are relatively far apart

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Elevation

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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

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A method of studying what people are doing and observing how there actions and reactions vary

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Flows

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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

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The geographic scale realm encompassing all of earth

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Local scale

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Distinctive site or physical characteristics of each place on earth