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| an area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to environment |
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| study of geographic phenomena by visiting people and observing how people interact |
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| an area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the environment consequences of dominant political-economic arrangements and understandings |
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| espoused by geographers who argued that the natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture |
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| lines connecting points of equal temperature values |
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| environmental determinism |
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| the view that the natural environment has a controlling influencing over various aspects of human life |
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| involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation and carry it to a new locale and disseminate it |
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| a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place |
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| pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused |
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| an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward |
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| diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals are affected |
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| prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable in that particular culture |
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| the declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance |
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| the spread of an idea or innovation from it's hearth to other places |
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| a trait with many hearths that developed independent of each other |
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| area where cultural traits diffuse and develop |
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| a discrete combination of traits |
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| single attribute of a culture |
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| sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of society |
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| constructs designed to help understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geo |
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| the product of interactions, of movement of various kinds |
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| region marked by one or more phenomena; defined by physical criteria or cultural traits |
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| involvement of other players at other scales to generate support for a position or initiative |
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| data collected by sattelites and aircraft |
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| geographic information system |
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| places we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activities |
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| place in relation to other human and physical features |
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| a hunt for a cache whose coordinates are placed on the internet by other geocachers |
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| locatons determined by latitude and longitude |
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| typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon |
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| show locations of places and geographic features |
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| art and science of making maps |
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| successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to cultural lanscape |
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| the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape |
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| refers to the material character of a place |
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| the degree of direct linkage b/w one particular location and others in a transport network |
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| theme that refers to the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of earth |
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| understanding about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures |
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| state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events or by labeling with a certain character |
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| movement b/w locationally seperate places |
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| theme that is an area on earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon |
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| theme meaning reciprocal relationship b/w humans and environment |
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| attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and how it's producing areas are interrelated |
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| theme meaning the geographical situation of people and things |
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| worldwide outbreak of a disease |
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| regional outbreak of a disease |
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| pertaining to space on the earths surface |
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| study of physical phenomena on earth |
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| set of processes that are increasing interactions, depening relationships and heightening interdepence w/o regard to country borders |
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