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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accessibility | Ease of flow between 2 places |
| Agglomerated | Clustering of similar related firms in a single geographical area share infrastructure |
| Built landscape | Human made physical area showing how human modified |
| Connectivity | Position of place/area relative to others in a network |
| Contagious diffusion | Spread of idea/ innovation from one person or place to another person/ place based on proximity. |
| Cultural ecology | Study of historical interaction between humans and environment in a place, including ways humans modified/ adapted to environment |
| Cultural landscape | Visible human imprint on landscape |
| Culture | Group of belief systems, norms and values practiced by people |
| culture complex | Group of interrelated cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes. Like belief/ value's |
| culture trait | Learned belief, norm or value passed down through generations in a culture |
| Direction absolute | Describe where features are located using fixed global standards |
| Direction relative | Describe where features are located using personal contextual perspectives |
| Distance absolute | Physical separation between two places measured by using standard units of length |
| Distance relative | measure separation between places using social, cultural, economic rather then physical length |
| Distance decay | interactions between 2 places decrease as distance between them increases |
| distribution | Arrangement or spread of people, places or phenomena across Earth's surface |
| endemic | disease / specie that remains consistently present within specific geographical area or population at predictable baseline rate |
| environmental determinism | Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth |