unit one geogrophy cheyenne holbrook
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| 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. | show 🗑
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| 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. | show 🗑
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| The region from which innovative ideas originate. This relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from one area to another (diffusion). | show 🗑
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| The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. | show 🗑
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| The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another. | show 🗑
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| The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. This can happen in 3 ways: | show 🗑
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| show | Hierarchical diffusion
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| : The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population | show 🗑
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| : the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse | show 🗑
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| show | Absolute distance
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| show | Relative distance
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| show | Distribution
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| A 19th- and early 20th-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical science. | show 🗑
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| 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). | show 🗑
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| The physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant | show 🗑
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| show | Situation
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| The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system. | show 🗑
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| - is based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. | show 🗑
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| show | Networks
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| show | Connectivity
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| 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. | show 🗑
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| show | Accessibility
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| show | Spatial Distribution
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| show | Space
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| show | Size-
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| show | Scale
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| - (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. | show 🗑
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| (nodal region) Area organized around a node or focal point | show 🗑
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| - (Perceptual Region) is a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. | show 🗑
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| The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment. | show 🗑
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| show | Pattern
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| - Often referred to as a places toponym (the name given to a place on Earth. | show 🗑
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