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| The opportunity for contract or interaction from a given point or location, in relations to other locations. |
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| A form of economic and social organization characterized by the profit motive and the control of the means of production, distribution, and the exchange of goods by private ownership |
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| The distance that people perceive to exist in a given situation |
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| Cognitive images (Mental maps) |
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| Psychological representations of locations that are made up from people's individual ideas and impressions of these locations |
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| Space defined and measured in terms of the nature and degree of people's values, feelings, beliefs, and perceptions about locations, districts, and religions |
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| The rate at which a particular activity or process diminishes with increasing distance |
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| Cost advantages to manufacturers that accrue from high-volume production, since the average cost of production falls with increasing output |
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| Groups of areal units that have a high degree of homogeneity in terms of particular distinguishing features |
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| Deterrent or inhibiting effect of distance on human activity |
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| Regions with some variability in certain attributes but with an overall coherence to the structure and dynamics of economic, political, and social organization |
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| Study of census data and commercial data (such as sales data and property records) about the populations of small districts to create profiles of those populations for market research |
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| Capacity to understand changing patterns, changing processes, and changing relationships among people, places, and regions |
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| Geographic information system (GIS) |
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| Organized collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data that is designed to capture, store, update, manipulate, and displace geographically referenced information |
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) |
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| System of satellites that orbit Earth on precisely predictable paths, broadcasting highly accurate time and locational information |
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| Increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change |
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| Study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people's relationships with their environments |
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| Sense that people make of themselves through their subjective feelings based on their everyday experiences and wider social relations |
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| Infrastructure (fixed social capital) |
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| Underlying framework of services and amenities needed to facilitate productive activity |
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| Shared meanings among people, derived from their lived experience of everyday practice |
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| Assertion by the government of a country that a minority living outside its formal borders belongs to it historically and culturally |
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| Measure north or south from the equator. Equator, Capricorn, etc. |
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| taken-for-granted pattern and context for everyday living through which people conduct their lives |
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| Measured east and west from the Prime Meridian, passes through Greenwich, England |
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| Economic policies that are predicted on a minimalist role for the state, assuming the desirability of free markets as the ideal condition not only for economic organization but also for political and social life |
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| Ordinary landscapes (vernacular landscapes) |
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| Everyday landscapes that people create in the course of their lives |
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| Subarea of the discipline that studied Earth's natural processes and their outcomes |
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| Specific geographic setting with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes |
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| Larger-sized territory that encompasses many places, all or most of which share similar attributes in comparison with the attributes of places elsewhere |
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| Study of the ways unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes |
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| Feeling of collective identity based on population's politico-territorial identification within a state or across state boundaries |
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| Classification of individual places or areal units |
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| Collection of information about parts of Earth's surface by means of aerial photography or satellite imagery designed to record data on visible, infrared, and microwave sensor systems |
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| Contemporary societies in which politics in increasingly about avoiding hazards |
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| Extreme devotion to local interests and customs |
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| Feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories that they associate with a place and the symbolism that they attach to it |
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| Physical attributes of a location--its terrain, its soil, vegetation, and water sources, for example |
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| Location of a place relative to other places and human activities |
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| Study of geographic phenomenon in terms of their arrangement as points, lines, areas, or surfaces on a map |
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| Way that things spread through space and overtime |
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| Movement and flows involving human activity |
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| Independent political units with territorial boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states |
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| Supranational organization |
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| Collections of individual states with a common goal that may be economic and/or political in nature |
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| Representations of particular values or aspirations that the builders and financiers of those landscapes want to impart to a larger public |
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| Rate at which places move closer together in travel or communication time or costs |
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| Connections between, or connectibility of, particular points in space |
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| Usefulness of a specific place or location to a particular person or group |
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| Large-scale geographic divisions based on continental and physiographic settings that contain major groupings of peoples with broadly similar cultural attributes |
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