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Absolutes Location ~Lovie |
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. |
Long and Latitude |
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Contagious Diffusion ~Lovie |
Distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person |
The idea that is passed from person to person throughout the whole local population |
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Cultural Diffusion ~ lovie |
Expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area |
Expanding culture from its original place to a new place |
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Cultural Landscape ~ lovie |
The visible imprint of human activity and cultural on the landscape |
Human activities in culture on land |
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Distance ~Lovie |
Measurement of the physical space between two places |
The space between two places or objects |
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Environmental Determinism ~ Lovie |
View that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life's, including cultural development |
Natural environment controlling aspects of the human's life |
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Expansion Diffusion ~Lovie |
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 |
The ideas spreading throughout the population to the point that the population grows continuously larger and with the results of an expanding area with changes in those area. |
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Fieldwork~Lovie |
The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places |
The study of geographic by visiting and observing how people interact with the changes in the area |
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Five Theme~ Lovie |
Movement, Region, Human- Environment, Location, and Place |
Remember MR. HELP |
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Formal Region~ lovie |
Type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in 1 or more phenomena; aka uniform or homogenous region |
Uniformed |
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Absolute Direction~ lovie |
A compass direction such as North, South, East and West are absolute direction |
Compass |
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Absolute Distance~ lovie |
The exact measurement of the physical space between two places. |
Using the amount of miles that separates two places is an example of a absolute distance. |
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Area distortion~ lovie |
Disadvantages for map depicting the entire world of the: shapes, distance, relative size and direction of places on map |
Shape, distance, relative size and direction of places on a map |
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Census data~ lovie |
A periodic and official count of a country's population |
The number of people in a country |
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Clustering~ lovie |
Objects in the area that are close together |
Closed together |
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Dispersal~lovie |
Objects in an area that are relatively far apart |
Far apart |
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Elevation~ lovie |
The height of physical features such as mountains is measured from the sea level rather than the ground level |
Measured from sea level |
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Field observation~lovie |
A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reactions vary |
Studying what people do and how they react to something |
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Flows~ lovie |
A pattern of migration in which migrants move back and forth between two or a small number of places, such as their homes and a distant work site |
Migrants move back and forth between two or small numbers of places |
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Global scale~ lovie |
The geographic scale realm encompassing all of Earth |
The geographic scale compassing Earth |
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Local scale~lovie |
Distinctive site or physical characteristic of each place on Earth |
The physical characteristic of a place on Earth |
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Regional scale~lovie |
Can apply to any area larger than a point and smaller than the the entire planet |
Any area larger than a point and smaller than the planet |
