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| the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
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| the total number of people divided by the total land area |
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| the science of making maps |
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| the spread of somethjing over a given area |
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| relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
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| the rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
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| geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships |
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| fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
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| the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of peoples distinct tradition |
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| the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
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| the process of the spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
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| the dimminshing inimportance and eventual dissapearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
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| the arrangement of something across earth's surface |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| a 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that agrued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the the physical sciences |
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| the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snow-balling process |
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Formal Region (homogeneous region/uniform region) |
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| an area in which everyone shares in one of more distinctive characteristics |
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| Functional (Nodal) Region |
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| an area oraganized around a node or focal point |
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Geographic Information System GIS |
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| a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data |
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Global Positioning System GPS |
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| a system that determines the precises postion of something on the earth through a series of satellites tracking stations, and recievers |
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| the time in that time zone encompasses prime meridian |
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| the region from which innovative ideas originiate |
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| the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to persons or places |
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| mostly follows 180 degress longitude and when you cross it heading east the clock moves back an entire day, vice versa |
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| the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe |
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| the position of anything on earth's surface |
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| the numbering system used to indicate the locations or meridians drawn on a globe |
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| a two-dimmensional representation of earth's surface |
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| an international representaion of a portion of the earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place |
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| an arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles |
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| a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians |
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| the geometric or regular arrangments of something in a study area |
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| the number of people per unit of area of arable land which is land that is suitable for agriculture |
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| a speicific point on earth distinguished by a particular character |
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| the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and chose a course of action from many alternatives |
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| the meridian, designated at 0 degress longitude, which passes through the royal observatory at Greenwhich, England |
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| the system used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map |
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| an area distinguished by unique combinations of trends and features |
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| the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another |
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| the aqusition of data about earths surface from a satelite orbiting the planet or other long distance methods |
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| a substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasable to access, and is socially acceptable to use |
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| generally, the relationships between the portion of earf being studies and earf as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on earfs surface |
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| the physical character of a place |
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| the location of a place relative to other places |
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| the physical gap or interval between two objects |
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| the reduction in the time in takes to diffuse something to a distant place |
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| the spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristIICCC is rejected |
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| the name given to a portion of earfs surface |
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| Transnational Coorporation |
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| a company the conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located |
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| the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economny |
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Vernacular Region (or perceptual region) |
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| an area the people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
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