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Definition
Arithmetic Density   the total number of people divided by the total land area  
Cartography   the science of making maps  
Concentration   the spread of something over a given area  
Contagious Diffusion   the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population  
Culture   the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people performing the act  
Density   the frequently with which something exists within a given unit of area  
Diffusion   the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time  
Distance Decay   the deminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin  
Distrubtion   the arrangement of someting across Earth's surface  
Expansion Diffusion   the spread of a feature or trend among people from one another in a snowballing process  
Formal Region   an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics  
Functional Region   an area organized around a node or focal point  
Geographic Information System (GIS)   A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data  
Globalization   actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope  
Greenwich Mean Time   the time in that time zone ecompassing the prime meridian, or 0 longitude  
Hearth   the region from which innovative ideas origionate  
Heirarchical Diffusion   the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places  
International Date Line   when time changes by going forward 24 hours at 180 longitude  
Location   the position of anything on Earth's surface  
Latitude   the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point  
Longitude   angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in  
Meridian   a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface.  
Parallel   extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging  
Prime Meridian   the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.  
Region   an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body  
Relocation Diffusion   the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.  
Remote Sensing   the science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance, as with radar or infrared photography, to observe the earth or a heavenly body.  
Site   the position or location of a town, building, as to its environment  
Situation   manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment  
Stimulus Diffusion   when something effecs you  
Toponym   place name  
Vernacular Region   Regions that have no boundries that people make up informally  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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