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| Environmental Determinism |
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| cultures are a direct result of where they exist |
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| suggest that humans are not a product of their environment but possess the skills necessary to modify their environment to fit human needs. |
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| keep the size or amount of area intact but distort shapes |
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| the distance between latitude lines increases the farther one moves away from the common line of latitude |
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| show true direction but loses distance. |
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| any azimuthal map, which shows true direction and examines the Earth from one point-usually a pole or polar projections, is an example o fa planar class |
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| the combination of the cylindrical and conic projection. Molleweide projection is an oval projection |
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| are good for determining movement |
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| put data into a spatial format and are useful for determining demographic data, such as infant mortality rates |
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| chart and assign data by size. |
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| indicate strength in a factor, place name on a map, false projections |
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| is the study of human characteristics on the landscape |
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| examines the physical features of the Earth and tries to define how they work. |
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| Fives Themes of Geography |
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| Place, Region, Location, Human-environment interaction, and Spatial interaction or movement |
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| is the description of what and how we see and experience a certain aspect of the Earth's surface |
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| links places together using any parameter the geographer chooses |
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| regions where anything and everything inside has the same characteristic or phenomena. Includes religion, languages, or cultural trait |
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| Defined around a certain point or node. |
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| The sphere of influence that is reduced as the distance increases. |
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| Perceptual Region/Vernacular Region |
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| Exist primarily in an individual's feelings. |
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| giving location in referance to another feature on the Earth's surface. |
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| using latitude and longitude coordinates. |
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| internal, physical characteristics of a place |
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| is a map that the person believes to exist. |
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| parallel lines that run east/west on the surface of the Earth |
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| imaginary lines at 0 degrees latitude. |
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| lines that run north and south. |
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| runs through Greenwich, England. the O degree longitude line. |
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| Human-Environment Interaction |
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| describes how people modify or alter the environment to fit individual or social needs. |
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| Spatial Interaction/movement |
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| how linked a place is to the outside world. |
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| Six Essential Elements in Geography |
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| The spatial world, Places and regions, physical systems, Human systems, Environment and Society, Uses of geography in today's society |
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| the movement of any characteristic. |
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| the place where the characteristic began |
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| is the physical spread of cultures, ideas, and diseases through people. |
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| the physical spread of cultures, ideas, and disease through their movement from one place to another. |
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| the spread of a characteristic from a central node or a hearth through various means. |
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| the spread of a characteristic from a central node or a hearth through various means. |
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| the idea that a phenomenon spreads as result of a group, usually the social elite, spreading ideas or patterns in a society. |
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| usually associated with the spread of disease |
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| takes part of an idea and spreads that idea out to create an innovative product. |
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| Everything on the Earth's surface has a physical location and is organized in space in some fashion. |
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| how often an object occurs within a given area or space |
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| how often people occur within a given area or space. |
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| the number of people divided by the arable land. |
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| calculates the density using all the land in a given area. |
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| refers to the proximity of a particular phenomenon over the area in which it is spread. |
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| if objects are close together in the area of concentration |
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| if the objects are spread out |
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| if geometric shapes are used to describe how the phenomena are laid out in a straight line. |
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| if geometric shapes are used to describe how the phenomena are clustered. |
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| if geometric shapes are used to describe how the phenomena are laid out in a lack of a pattern. |
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| Demographic Transition Model |
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| describes human activities in the past and predicts human activities in the future. |
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