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| A diagrammatic map that presents statistical information visually |
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| An approach developed by Julian Steward in the 1930s that focused on the dynamic interactions between human societies and their environments |
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| A landscape that is essentially dominated by the effects of human activity, such as arable or pastoral farming, or forestry. |
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| The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
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| North, south, east, and west. |
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| Left, right, up, down, forwards, and backwards. |
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| The distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length such as a mile or kilometer. |
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| The amount of social, cultural, or economic connectivity between two places. |
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| A function that represents the way that some entity or its influence decays with distance from its geographical location. |
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| On a map or image, the misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth. |
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| The natural arrangement and apportionment of the various forms of animals and plants in the different regions and localities of the earth. |
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| Environmental Determinism/Possibilism |
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| The belief that a physical environment affects social and cultural development. |
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| An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. |
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| The friction of distance is the concept that the length of the journey (distance), and the difficulty of the journey (friction) affects the time needed to complete the journey (time) |
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| An area organized around a node, or focal point, and is defined by interactions or connections |
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| Information about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values in a geographic coordinate system |
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| Geographic Informational System (GIS) |
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| A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data |
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) |
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| A radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world |
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| A process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology |
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| The place where a new innovation affecting humans first appears and diffusion is its pattern and process of spread across the landscape from the hearth area. |
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| The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other. |
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| The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. |
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| A location of a place in relation to another place (i.e. south or downhill) |
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| An area defined by local, ordinary folks' subjective perceptions reflecting their feelings & images about key place characteristics |
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| They include much of the same data found on a political map, but their primary purpose is to show landforms like deserts, mountains and plains |
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| The study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes |
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| The art and science of making measurements of the earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites |
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| The ratio of a distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the ground |
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| The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape |
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| The land upon which a settlement was built |
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| Situation of a Settlement |
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| A settlement's location in relation to surrounding human and physical features |
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| The set of processes that cause the relative distances between places (i.e., as measured in terms of travel time or cost) to contract, effectively making such places grow “closer.” |
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| The process, made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communication, by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel (or send messages) between them |
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| Estimates the flow of people, material or information between locations in geographic space |
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