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75 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Location
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The precise location of a place.
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Accessibility
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How easy it is to reach other places.
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Activity Space
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Where daily activity occurs.
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Cartography
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The science of making maps.
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Climate Region
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Regions with similar climate characteristics.
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Connectivity
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One place being connected to the other using transportation.
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Contagious Diffusion
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The spreading of an idea through person. (Think like diseases; contagious)
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Culture
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How a society behaves and its traditions.
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Cultural Barrier
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Ideas of cultures and not excepted in different areas.
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Culture Complex
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Traits of the culture. (Example, clothing, eating utensils, cooking)
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Cultural Diffusion
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Expanding of a culture.
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Cultural Ecology
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Interactions between a culture and the environment.
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Cultural Hearth
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Origin of a culture.
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Cultural Landscape
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Things that humans do to affect the land.
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Cultural Trait
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Daily traditions (Example: Turban)
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Dispersion
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Spreading widely.
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Distribution
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Being scattered; distributed.
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Environmental Determinism
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Environment controls human life.
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Epidemic
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A big disease spreading all over.
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Expansion Diffusion
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Spread of an idea through people.
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Distance
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Space between two places.
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Fieldwork
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Going to the place you're about to study.
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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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A region with the same traditions.
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Functional Region
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Region known for its activities.
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Generalized Map
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A map that shows the most important locations.
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Geocaching
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A hunt for hidden things using a GPS
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Geographic Concept
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Seeing the world spatially to answer questions.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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Data that can be "collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed".
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Globalization
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People, money, and information flow freely across borders.
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
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Determines your exact location according to a satellite.
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Global Grid System
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Uses longitude, latitude and the meridian to find your location.
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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
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Base for calculation time anywhere on the world.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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Were ideas first pass through the most populated areas and then to rural areas.
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Human-Environment Interaction
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Relationship between humans and the environment.
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Human Geography
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Population, Religion, Place, Development and Agriculture.
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Independent Invention
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Cultures that grew independent of each other.
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International Date Line
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An imaginary line on the Earth where a new day starts.
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Isotherm
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A line on a map connecting places with the same temperature.
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Landscape
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How an area looks.
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Local Diversity
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A variety on a local scale.
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Location
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Where people and places are.
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Location Theory
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A logical theory used to explain where and why economic things happen.
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Medical Geography
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Where diseases/healthy people are located.
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Mental Map
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A map drawn from your brain.
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Movement
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How people, goods and ideas move across the planet.
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Multinational (Transnational) Corporation
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A business in more than one country.
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Pandemic
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Spread of a disease; epidemic.
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Pattern
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How people and places are spaced out.
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Perception of Place
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How people think about places and books and movies.
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Perceptual Region
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A name of a region; midwest, south, west coast, etc.
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Physical Geography
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Regular geography... Places, climate, animals...
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Place
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How unique a location is.
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Political Ecology
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Study of nature and how people affect it.
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Possibilism
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People who see nature holding people back from decisions.
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Reference Map
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Shows exact places of places using references (like latitude and longitude).
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Region
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An area where certain people live.
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Relative Location
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Comparing where two places are and if distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect it.
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Relocation Diffusion
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People relocating from a old area to a new one.
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Remote Sensing
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Collecting data through a satellite or something that is far away.
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Rescale
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Creating interest for a position or goal using "other scales" (using internet to get interest).
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Scale
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A level, or a line used to measure distances on a map.dd
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Sense of Place
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Remembering where a place is using memories.
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Sequent Occupance
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Rich societies leaving marks on a place
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Site Location
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Where a site is located.
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Situation Location
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Used with reference to other "nonlocal" places.
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Space-Time Compression
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Technology that make communication across long distances easier (internet, fax, phone).
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Spatial
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Geographic; Earth's surface
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Spatial Distribution
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Locations of places or people across Earth.
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Spatial Interaction
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When two regions work together to satisfy each other and when a opportunity "steals the spotlight" from another place farther away.
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Spatial Perspective
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Observations to see geographic occurrences.
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Stimulus Diffusion
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Were a culture adapts another cultures traits.
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Thematic Maps
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Maps that show movement of "geographic phenomenon"; tells stories.
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Time-Distance Decay
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Popularity of an idea diminishes over distance and time.
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Time Zones
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24 regions whose time is set according to Greenwich.
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