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Arithmetic density

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The total number of people decided by the total land area

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Agricultural Density

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

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Base line

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An east west line designated under the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US

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Cartography

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The science of map making

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Concentration

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The spread of something over a given area

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Connections

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Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Contagious diffusion

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The rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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Cultural ecology

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Geographic approach that emphasises human environment relationships

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Cultural landscape

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Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

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Culture

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The body of customary beliefs social forms and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition

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Density

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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area

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Diffusion

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The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Distance decay

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The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

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Distribution

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The arrangement of something across earths surface

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Environmental determinism

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A nineteenth and early twentieth century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical environment CAUSED human activities

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Expansion diffusion

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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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Formal region

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An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics

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Functional region

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An area organized around a node or focal point

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GIS geographic information system

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A computer system that stores organizes analyzes and displays geographic data

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GPS Global Positioning System

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A system that determines the precise location of something on earth through a series of satellites tracking stations and receivers

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Globalization

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Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide I scope

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Greenwich mean time

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The time in that times zones encompassing the prime meridian or 0* longitude

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Hearth

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The region from which innovative ideas originate

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or mode of authority or power to other persons or places

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International dateline
An arc that for the most part follows 180 longitude although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas
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Land ordinance of 1785
A law that divided much of the US into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers
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Latitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on the earth to measure north and aouth
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Location
The position of anything on the earths surface
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Longitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn to measure west to east
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Map
A 2d representation of the earths surface
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Mental map
an internal representation of a portion of earths surface based on what an individual knows about a place containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located
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Meridian
An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles
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Parallel
A circle drawn around the globe to the equator and at 90 angles with meridians
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Pattern
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in the study in a area
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Physiological density
The number of people per unit of area of arable land which is land suitable for agriculture
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Place
A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character
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Polder
Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area
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Possibilisum
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions but people have the ability to choose a course of action from many alternatives
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Prime meridian
The meridian designated as 0 longitude that passes through the royal observatory at Greenwich England
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Principal meridian
A north south line designated in the land ordnance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US
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Projection
The system used to transfer location from earths surface to a flat map
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Region
An area distinguished by a unique collection of trends or features
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Regional studies
An approach to geo that emphasizes the relationship among social and physical phenomenon in a particular study area
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Relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
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Remote sensing
The acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distance methods
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Resource
A substance in the environment that is useful to people is economically and technologically feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use
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Scale
The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole
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Section
A square normally 1 mile on a side 1785
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Site
The physical character of a place
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Situation
The location of a place relative to other places
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Space
The physical gap or interval between 2 objects
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Space time compression
The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transport systems
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Stimulus diffusion
The spread of an underlying principal even though a specific characteristic is rejected
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Toponym
The name given to a portion of earths surface
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Township
Square 6 miles. 1785
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Transnational corporation
A company the conducts research operates factories and sells products in many countries
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Uneven development
The increased gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
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Vernacular region
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity

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