Flashcards of the vocabulary words from Chapter 1 of The Cultural Landscape
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| show | Agricultural Density
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| Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that make up a group's distinct tradition; ex. food, language, religion, clothing | show 🗑
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| The arrangement of something across Earth's surface | show 🗑
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| show | Meridian
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| show | Remote sensing
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| show | Hearth
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| Number system that locates parallels; measures distance north or south of the equator | show 🗑
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| show | Place
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| Physical character of a place | show 🗑
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| Spread of a feature through movement of people from one place to another; for example, the English language spreading to America via migrating English settlers | show 🗑
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| System used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a 2-D map | show 🗑
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| Time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude; also known as Universal Time (UT) | show 🗑
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| show | Region
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| Process of spreading of a characteristic or trend from one place to another; ex. relocation, expansion, stimulus, hierarchical | show 🗑
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| show | Base Line
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| Circle around the globe running east to west that measures north to south | show 🗑
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| Location of a place in relation to another; ex. The bank is one block away from the supermarket. | show 🗑
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| Processes that involve the entire world and result in something being worldwide in scope | show 🗑
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| a.k.a. Cultural landscape studies- emphasizes the relationship between social and physical characteristics in a particular area | show 🗑
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| Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area | show 🗑
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| Spread of features from one area to another in a snowballing process | show 🗑
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| System that determines precise position of something through satellites, tracking devices, and receivers | show 🗑
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| Rapid, widespread diffusion throughout a population; hint: THE PLAGUE!!!! | show 🗑
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| Theory that people have the ability to adjust the environment even though it my set limits | show 🗑
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| An active company in many countries other than where the headquarters are located; ex. fast food restaurants, car companies | show 🗑
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| show | International Date Line (IDL)
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| north to south line created during the Land Ordinance of 1785 to make counting townships easier | show 🗑
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| Increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions due to the globalization of the economy; ex. The gap between the economic status of those in third-world countries and the U.S. is increasing. | show 🗑
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| Relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; the scope of something; ex. global, national, state, local | show 🗑
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| show | Formal region
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| 2-D model of Earth's surface | show 🗑
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| Representation based on an individual's knowledge; ex. I just moved to New York; my ________ ________ of the city isn't too good. | show 🗑
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| Geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area; ex. Land Ordinance of 1785 | show 🗑
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| show | Resource
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| show | Land Ordinance of 1785
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| show | Location
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| show | Connections
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| Changes made to a natural landscape by a cultural group; ex. terracing into mountains | show 🗑
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| 0 degrees longitude; passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England | show 🗑
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| show | Space
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| show | Functional Region
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| show | Hierarchical Diffusion
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| computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data | show 🗑
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| show | Vernacular Region
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| show | Space-Time Compression
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| 1 square mile; divided townships into 36 parts | show 🗑
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| 36 square miles; due to the Land Ordinance of 1785; divided into 36 sections | show 🗑
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| Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture; hint: number of people, not number of farmers | show 🗑
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| show | Longitude
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| Science of map making | show 🗑
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| show | Distance Decay
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| Spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected; ex. Apple's mouse was used by PC even though Apple wasn't popular at the time. | show 🗑
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| Name given to a portion of Earth's surface; ex. New York is derived from a York in England, Washington state was named after George Washington, etc. | show 🗑
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| show | Environmental Determninism
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| show | Density
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| Density of something over a given area; ex. clustered or dispersed | show 🗑
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| Emphasizes human-environment relationships | show 🗑
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| Number of people divided by land area | show 🗑
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