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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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| An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. |
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| The science of making maps |
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| The spread of something 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 the 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 constitutes a group of people's 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 spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
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| The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
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| the arrangment of something across Earth's surface. |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. |
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| The spread of a feature or tend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
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| uniform or homogeneous region. An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. |
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| an area organized around a node or focal point. |
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| Geographic information system(GIS) |
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| A computer system that stores, organize, analyzes and displays geographical data. |
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