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Absolute location |
The position or place of a certain place on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude 0 to 90S or N of the equator,and longitude 0 to E or W of prime meridian . |
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Contagious diffusion |
Distance-controlled of spreading of an idea ,innovative or some other item through local population by contact from person to person. |
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Culture difference |
Expansion and adoption of a culture element,from its place of origin to wider area. |
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Culture landscape |
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
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Distance |
Measurements of physical space between two places |
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Environmental determinism |
View that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life |
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Expansion diffusion |
Spread of invasion or idea through a population in an area |
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Fieldwork |
The study of geographic phenomena by visiting place and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places. |
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Five themes |
Location, human- environment, region, place and movement |
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Formal region |
Type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in 1 or more phenomena |
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Absolute direction |
A compass direction such as north or south are absolute directions . |
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Absolute distance |
An absolute distance is the exact measurement of the physical space between to places . |
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Area distortion |
Disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world of the : shape,distance, relative size , and direction of places on maps. |
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Census data |
A periodic and official count of a country’s population |
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Clustering |
Objects in area are close together . |
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Dispersal |
Objects in area are relatively far apart |
Far from each other |
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Elevation |
The height of physical features such as mountains is measured from the sea level rather than the grand level |
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Field observation |
A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reactions vary. |
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Flows |
A pattern of migration in which migrants move back and forth between to or small number of places. |
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Global scale |
The geographic scale realm encompassing all of earth |
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Local scale |
Distinctive site or physical characteristics of each place on earth |
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Regional scale |
Can apply to any area larger than a point and smaller that the entire planet |
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