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Sequent occupance   show
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Cultural landscape   show
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show The total number of people divided by the total land area. This is what most people think of as density; how many people per area of land.  
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Physiological density   show
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show The region from which innovative ideas originate. This relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from one area to another (diffusion).  
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Diffusion   show
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show The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another. Ex: spread of AIDS from New York, California, & Florida.  
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show The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.  
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Hierarchical diffusion   show
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Contagious diffusion   show
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show the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse  
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show Exact measurement of the physical space between two places.  
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Relative distance   show
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show The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface.  
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show A 19th- and early 20th-century approach to the study of geography that said that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was now the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.  
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show Position on Earth’s surface using the coordinate system of longitude (that runs from North to South Pole) and latitude (that runs parallel to the equator).  
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show Position on Earth’s surface relative to other features  
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Site   show
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Situation   show
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Space Time Compression   show
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show based on the notion that distance requires some effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. Because of this "friction," spatial interactions will take place more over shorter distances; quantity of interaction will decline wi  
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Distance Decay   show
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show defined by Manuel Castells as a set of interconnected nodes without a center.  
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Connectivity   show
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show The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations. Accessibility varies from place to place and can be measured.  
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show Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects  
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Spatial Distribution   show
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show Is the estimation or determination of extent  
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show Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance, indicated on a map as a bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement  
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Formal Region   show
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show Area organized around a node or focal point. The characteristic chosen to define a functional region dominates at a central focus or node and diminishes in importance outward.  
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Vernacular Region   show
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Possibilism   show
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Natural Landscape   show
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show A common property of distribution, which is the geometric arrangement of objects in space. Some features are organized in a geometric pattern, whereas others are distributed irregularly  
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show A place's toponymn  
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