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| The identification of place by some precise and accepted system of coordinates. Also called Mathmatical Location |
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| The position of a place in relation to that of other place or activities. |
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| An absolute location or concept, refers to the physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of the place itself. |
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| Refers to the external relation of a locale. It is an expression of relative location with particular reference to items of significance to the place in question. |
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| A direction based on the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. |
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| Relative Directions or (relational directions) |
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| Directional references that are culturally based and locationally variable, despite there reference to a absolute direction. (Out East)(Up North) |
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| Refers to the spatial separation between two points on the Earth's surface measured by some accepted standard unit such as miles or kilometers. |
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| Transforms linear measurements into other units more meaningful for the space relationship in question. |
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| Attributes that provide the setting within which human action occurs |
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| A mathematical relationship between an area on a map and the actual size of the mapped area. |
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| The visible expression of human activity |
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| The interaction of places with other places in structured and comprehensible ways. |
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| How easy or difficult it is to surmount the barrier of the time and space speration of places. |
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| A concept implying all the tangible and intangible ways in which places are connected.(Telephone Lines)(Road Systems) |
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| The process of dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected. |
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| Implies the increasing interconnection of peoples and societies in all parts of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental processes becomes international in scale and effect. |
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| The arrangement of items on the earth's surface. |
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| Detecting the nature of an object and the content of an area from distance |
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| Geographical Information System (GIS) |
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| Both an integrated software package for handling, processing, and analyzing geographical data and a computer database in which every item of information is tied to a precise geographic location |
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| To bring order to the immense diversity of the earth's surface |
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| Images about an area or an environment developed by an individual on the basis of information or impressions received, interpreted, and stored |
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| Functional Region(Nodal Region) |
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| A spacial system with interdependent parts that operates as a dynamic, organizational unit |
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| (Opposites) the amount of spread of a phenomenon over an area |
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| A simplified abstraction of reality, structured to clarify casual relationships. |
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| Earth areas that display significant elements of internal uniformity and external difference from surrounding territories |
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| The content of area is interrelated and functions as a unit because its component parts are interdependent |
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| The method chosen to represent the earth's curved surface as a flat map |
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| The measure of the number or quantity of anything within a defined unit of area quantity of anything within a defined unit of area |
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| Formal Region(Uniform Region) |
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| Region of essential uniformity in one or a limited combination of physical or cultural features |
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| Loosely structured regions that reflect feelings and images rather than objective data |
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| The geometric arrangement of objects in space |
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