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Formal/Uniform Region

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An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics

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Relocation Diffusion

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Spread of physical movement of people from one place to another

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Situation/relative location

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Location of a place relative to other places

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Concentration

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Extent of a feature’s spread over space

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Network

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A chain of communication that connects places

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Isoline map

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Map that connects with lines, places ith particular values

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Environmental Determinism

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The belief that the physical environment caused social development

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Expansion Diffusion

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Spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process

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Preservation

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The maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible

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Cartography

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Art of mapmaking

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GIScience (Geographic information science)

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Analysis of data about Earth through satellite and digital systems

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Projection

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Scientific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to flat map

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Absolute Location

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Describes position of a place in a way that never changes

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Photogrannetry

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Science of taking measurements of Earth’s surface from photos

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Longitude

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Location of each meridian identified according to numbering system. Basis for telling time

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Distance Decay

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Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears

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Sustainability

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The use of Earth’s resources in a way that ensures their availability in the future

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Coordinated universal time (UTC)

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Time at prime meridian is a master reference for all time on Earth

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Biotic system

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Composed of living organisms

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Spacial association

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Observed within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature

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Location

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Position that something occupies on Earth’s surface

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Geo tagging

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Identify and storage of information by latitude and longitude coordinates (concerns about privacy)

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Behavioral Geography

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emphasizes importance of understanding the basis of individual human action in space

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Region

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An area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics

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VGI (volunteered geographic information)
Creation and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and free by individuals
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Latitude
Numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel
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International date line
An arc that mostly follows 180 degrees longitude clock moves 24 hours when crossed East - back, west - ahead
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Mashup
Map that overlays data from one source on top of a map by a mapping surface
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Transitional Corporation
Conducts research, operates factories and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principal shareholders are located
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Hierarchical Diffusion
Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power or other persons or places
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Conection
Refers to relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
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Remote sensing
Acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long distance methods
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Toponym
Name given to places on Earth
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Globalization
Force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
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GPS (global positioning system)
System determines precise position of something on Earth
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Cultural Landscape
A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation
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Functional/nodal regions
An area organized around a node or focal point
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Cartogram
map. the country/state size is proportional to data
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Space
Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects
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Pattern
Geometric arrangement of objects in space
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Erosion
Occurs when the soil washes away in rain or blows away in the wind
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Humanistic geography
emphasizes different ways individuals form ideas about places and give places symbolic meaning
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Syncretism
Combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature
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Cultural Ecology
Geographic study of human-environment relationships
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Acculturation
The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups
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Ecosystem
Group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
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Culture
Body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people
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Place
Specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic
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Assimilation
Process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group
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GIS (geographic information system)
captures, stores, queries, and displays geographic data
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Uneven development
Increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in core and periphery that results from globalization of economy
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Citizen science
Scientific research by ametur scientists
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Density
Frequency with which something occurs in space
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Contagious diffusion
rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
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Diffusion
Process by which a feature spreads across from one place to another over time
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Participatory GIS
Community based mapping
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Chloropleth map
map that uses varying shades of a color to show data
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Distribution
Arrangement of something across Earth's surface
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Climate
Long term average weather conditions at a particular location
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Space time compression
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place
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Stimulus diffusion
Spread of underlying principle even though a characteristic itself is apparently fails to diffuse
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Vernacular/perceptual region
an area that people believe exists as a part of their culture identity
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Hearth
A place from which innovation originates
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Site
The physical character of a place
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Dot distribution map
Map that uses dots to show data
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Scale
relationship between portion of Earth being studied as a whole
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Poststructuaralist geography

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