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| A 2D representation of Earth's surface or part of it |
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| A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particulat character |
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| An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features |
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| The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth |
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| The physical gap between two objects |
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| relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
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| How the map compares to the actual Earth. Three ways (written, graphical, ratio) |
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| The system used to transfer locations on Earth's surface to a flat map |
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) |
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| A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data |
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| The acquisition of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite or other long dist. methods |
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| Global Positioning Sys. (GPS) |
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| A system that detemines the precise position of something through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and recievers |
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| The position of anything on Earth's surface |
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| The name given to a portion of the Earth's surface |
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| The physical character of a place (ie. campsite) |
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| The location of a place relative to other places |
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| The exact location of something on the earth (lat. and long.) |
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| # sys. used to measure dist. from east to west |
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The meridian designated as 0deg. longitude
Passes through Greenwich England |
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| # sys. used to measure north to south |
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| Fashioning of a natual landscape by a cultural group |
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| An area where everyone shares in 1+ distinctive characteristics |
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| An area organized around a focal point (cell phone reception area) |
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| Perceptual (venacular) Region |
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| An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural idetity |
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| An internal representation of a part of Earth's surface based on what a person knows about a place |
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| The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a people's distinct actions |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| A 19th/20th century approach to geography that argued that the environment determines human actions |
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| The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people can adjust |
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| Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something world wide |
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| The arrangement of something on Earth's surface |
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| # of people/ unit of arable land (divided) |
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| # of farmers/ amount of land for agriculture |
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| # of people/ total land area |
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| The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
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| The spread of something over a given area |
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| isolated houses (not clustered) |
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| Houses situated together in a settlement |
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| The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area |
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| The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communication and transport sys. |
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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 process of spread of a feature or trends from one place to another over time |
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| The region from which innovative ideas originate |
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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 a snowballing process |
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| The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons/ places |
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| A rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
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| The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
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