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Unit 1 vocab
Unit 1 vocab
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Geography
9th Grade
09/14/2013

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Agricultural Density
Definition
The ratio of the number of to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
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Arithmetic Density
Definition
The total number of people divided by the total land area
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Base Line
Definition
An east-west line designated under the ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States
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Cartography
Definition
The science of making maps
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Concentration
Definition
The spread of something over a given area
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Connections
Definition
Realtionships among people and objects over the barrier of space
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Contagious Diffusion
Definition
The rapid spread of diffusion of a trend over a population
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Cultural Ecology
Definition
Geographic emphasization of human-environment relationships
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Cultural landscape
Definition
the fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
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Culture
Definition
Vustomary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together make up a groups distinct tradition
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Dansity
Definition
The frequency of when something exists within an area
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Diffusion
Definition
the process of of spread of a trend from one place to another over time
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Cartography
Definition
The science of making maps
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Distance Decay
Definition
The diminishing of importance disappearnce of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
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Distribution
Definition
The arrangement of something over Earth surface
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Expanison Diffisuion
Definition
The spread of a feature or or trend among poeple from one area to another in a snowballing process
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Formal Region, or homogenous region
Definition
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
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Functional Region, or Nodal Region
Definition
An area organized around a node or focal point
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Geographic Information System
Definition
A machine that organizes, arranges, and displays geographic data
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Global Positioning Sytem
Definition
A system that determines the postion of something on Earths surface through satellites
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