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Geography
9th Grade
04/14/2012

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Space
Definition
  1. Geometric surface of the Earth 
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Spatial Thinking
Definition
Understanding the pattern and distribution of objects and analyzing their relationships, conectedness, movement, growth, and change across space and overtime
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Place
Definition
an are of bounded space of some human importance 
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Regions
Definition
An area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon. 
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sequent occupancy
Definition
the succession of groups and cultural influences throughout a place's history
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map scale
Definition
ratio of distance on a map and distance in the real world in absolute terms
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level of aggregation
Definition
the level at which you group things together for examination
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Fieldwork
Definition
A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reacctions vary.
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Human Geography
Definition
The study of how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localtiy, region, and world.
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Globalization
Definition
A set of processes that are increasing interactions, interpendence without regard to country borders.
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Physical Geography
Definition
The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth's natural phenomena.
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Spatial
Definition
How something is laid out; space on Earth's surface.
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Spatial Distribution
Definition
Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.
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Pattern
Definition
The design of spatial distribution
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Medical Geography
Definition
The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective; looking at sources, diffusion routes, and distribution of disease.
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Pandemics
Definition
A worldwide outbreak of disease.
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Epidemic
Definition
Regional outbreak of disease
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Spatial Perspective
Definition
Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space
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Location
Definition
The geographical situation of people and things
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Location Theory
Definition
A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of the economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated
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Accessibility
Definition
The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certian location from other locations
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Connectivity
Definition
The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
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Landscape
Definition
Material character of a place, complex of natural featues, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place its form
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Cultural Landscape
Definition
The visible imprint of human activity ona landscape
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Thematic Maps
Definition
Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon
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Absolute Locations
Definition
The position of place of a certian item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, and longitude
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
Definition
Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geograpic features
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Geocaching
Definition
A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers
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Relative Location
Definition
The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places
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Activity Space
Definition
The space within which daily activity occurs
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Remote Sensing
Definition
A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study
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Geographic Information System (GIS)
Definition
A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user
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Formal Region
Definition
A uniform region
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Functional Region
Definition
Defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it
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Perceptual Region
Definition
A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity
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Culture
Definition

 

The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society

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Cultural Trait
Definition
A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban
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Cultural Complex
Definition
A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
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Independent Invention
Definition
The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other
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Cultural Diffusion
Definition
The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area
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Cultural Barriers
Definition
Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certian innovations; ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture
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Expansion DIffusion
Definition
The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger
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Contagious Diffusion
Definition
The 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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Hierarchial Diffusion
Definition
An idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples
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Stimulus Diffusion
Definition
A cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place
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