Melissa Webb
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| show | The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. This is an important concept in geography because it symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings.
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| Arithmetic density | show 🗑
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| show | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. This is important because it relates to how much land is being used by how many people.
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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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| show | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. This can happen in 3 ways.
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| Stimulus diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Exact measurement of the physical space between two places.
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| show | The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface.
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| Environmental determinism | show 🗑
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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. (Ex: My house is west of 394).
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| show | The location of a place relative to other places. (For more on Site & Situation, see p.16).
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| show | he reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system.
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| show | based on notion that distance requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. Because of this "friction," spatial interactions will tend to take place more often over shorter distances; quantity of interaction will decline with distance.
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| show | defined by Manuel Castells as a set of interconnected nodes without a center.
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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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| show | Physical location of geographic phenomena across SPACE
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| show | uniform) or homogenous region is an area within which everyone shares in common one or mare distinctive characteristics. The shared feature could be a cultural value such as a common language, or an environmental climate.
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| show | (Landscape of nature, not human-created things. Examples are forests and mountains)
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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. Geographers observe that many objects form a linear distribution.
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| show | Often referred to as a place's toponym (the name given to a place on Earth.
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