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| want to answer the questions: where are the people and activities found on earths surface |
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| global positioning system - system that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth |
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| Geographic Information System - a computer system that captures, stores, queries, analyzed, and displays geographic data |
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| the name given to a portion of earths surface |
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| combo of cultural features, economic features, and physical features |
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| an area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. |
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| an area organized around a node or focal point |
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| an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. |
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| a representation of a portion of earths surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in the place and whee the place is located. |
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| a body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a groups distinct tradition |
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| Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope |
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| transnational corporations choose where to set up factories and where to sell |
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| The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
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| The spread of something given over a given area |
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| The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
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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 spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process |
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| The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to another persons or places |
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| The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
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| the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
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| The use of earths renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future |
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