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| The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
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| area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characterists |
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| the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole |
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| The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
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| georgraphic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships |
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| location of a place relative to other places |
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| an area organized around a node or focal point |
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| Environmental determinism |
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| approach to the study of the geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could me found in the physical sciences |
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| the concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without dimiishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations |
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| The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
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| the increasing gap in economical conditions between care and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy |
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| Greenwhich Mean time (GMT) |
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| The international agreement designated the time at the prime meridian. Universal time. Master reference time for all points on earth |
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| area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
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| The spread of something over a given area |
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| the sphere of economic influence of a town or city |
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| the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse somethign to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
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| 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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| individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a geographical information system to understand and analyze a spatial relationship |
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| data associated with a more humanistic approach to geography, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpetation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives |
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| The Number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
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| physical character of a place |
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| adopter the "regional studies" approach to geography. Aruged that each region has its own distinctive landscaping resulting from a unique combination of social relationships and physical process |
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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 position of anything on earths surface |
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| substance in the environment that is useful to epople, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use |
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| dada associated with mathematical models and statidstical techniques used analyze spatial location and association |
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| Arrangement of something accross earths surface |
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| designated east-west lines |
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| location based on nearby features |
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| specific point on earth distinguised by a particular character |
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| Geographical Information system |
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| Computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data |
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1 mile by 1 mile
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| square 6 miles on each side |
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| divided much of the country into a system of townships and ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settlers in the west |
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| The scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map |
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| wrote 8 volume guide to geography. He made an accurate map that lasted hundreds of years as most accurate. Didn't have the americas or the pacific ocean |
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| north-south lines seperating townships |
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| The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities |
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| claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions: the earth-science tradition, the culture-environment tradition, the locational tradition, and the area-anaylsis tradition |
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| combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation |
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| pulling people into greater cultural and economic interaction w/ others |
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| change in shape or size of a place on a map |
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| the world is not flat, sphere |
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| the acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbitting earth |
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| the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
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| name given to a place on earth |
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