Vocab

Question 0

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

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Agricultural Density

Question 1

An area distinguished by a unique combinations of trends or features

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Absolute Location

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The total number of people divided. By the total land area

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Arithmetic density

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Helped to find latitude (tool)

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Astrolabe

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An east-west Line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying the numbering of townships in the Unites States

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Base Lines

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1960s, focused on physiological processes that go with geographic decisions

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Behavioral Geography

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A settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement

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Clustered

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The spread of something over a given area

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Concentration

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Relations among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Connections

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The rap did widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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Contagious diffusion

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Geographic approach that emphasized human environment relationships

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Cultural landscape

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

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Density

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The spreading is a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Diffusion

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

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Distance decay

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The arrangement of something across earth’a surface

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Distribution

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A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argues that the general laws daughter by human geographers could be found in the physician sciences geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities

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Environmental diffusion

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

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Formal region (or uniform or homogeneous region)

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An area organized around a node or focal point

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Functional region (or nodal region)

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A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data

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Geographic information system

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A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking symbols, and receivers

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Global Positioning System

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

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Globalization

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The region from which innovate ideas originate

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Hearth

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

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The branch if geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth’a surface

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Human geography

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Uses proportionally to show particular variable

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Cartogram

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A law that divides much if the United States into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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The numbering state used To indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0 deg)

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Latitude

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One of the two factors that are pulling people in opposite directions. One way people are searching for more ways to express their unique cultural traditions and economic practices

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Local diversity

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The position of anything of earth's surface

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Location

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians frown on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0 deg)

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Longitude

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A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of earth's surface or a portion of it

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Map

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A representation of a portion of earth's 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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Mental map

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An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles

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Meridian

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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians

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Parallel

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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area

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Pattern

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(Or vernacular) Boundaries determines by people's beliefs, not a scientifically measurable process

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Perceptual region

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The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes

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Physical geography

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture

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Physiological density

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A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character

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Place

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Idea of humans develop their own culture, but within the limits of the environment

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Positivism

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The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives

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Possibilism

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The meridian, designated as 0 deg. Longitude, that passes through the royal observatory at Greenwich, England

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Prime meridian

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A north/south line designated in the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the survey and numbering of township ok the United States

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Principal meridians

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The system used to transfer locations from earth'a surface to a flat map

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Projection

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The system used to transfer locations from earth'a surface to a flat map

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Region

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An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area

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Regional studies

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A location as compared to other places

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Relative location

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The acquisition of data about earth'a surface from a satellite robing the planet or other long-distance methods

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Remote sensing

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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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Resources

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The relationship between he portion of earth being studies and earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on earth'a sirfac

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Scale

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A square normally 1 mi on a side. The land ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections

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Sections

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The physical character of a place

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Site

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The location of a place relative to other places

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Situation

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The physical gap or interval between two objects

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Space

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The reduction nj time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result do imported communication and transportation systems

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Space time compression

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Where something occurs in the spatial perspective

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Spatial perspective

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The spread of an underlying principle, even through a specific characteristic rejected

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Stimulus diffusion

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The idea that humans don't have much control in the world and that the world is product of unobservable structure

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Structuralism

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It depicts a round world with three continents separated and surrounded by water. Jerusalem is in the center. To orient

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TO map

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Love of place

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Topohilia

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The name given to a portion is earth's surface

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Toponym

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Fear of place

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Topophobia

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A square normally 6 mi on a side. The land ordinance of 1785 divided much of the US into a series of townships

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Township

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The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy

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Uneven development

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An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity (perceptual)

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Vernacular region

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1st prof. Of geography at Berlin university. Advocated searching for interconnections among things. Pushed geography toward scientific exploration and the earth as a home

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Carl Ritter

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Focused on the impacted of human cultures and physical processes on a landscape over time

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Carl Saur

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Known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic growth and economic geography

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Ellsworth Huntington

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American scientist and author. Best known- supports the idea that culture emerges from the environment

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Jared Diamond

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Wrote a complex geographic of world versions of his maps used for the next 15,000 years

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Ptolemy

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The study in map making

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Cartography