Introduction to Human Geography
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| show | One of the two branches of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities and landscapes
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| show | The expansion of economic, political and cultural processes that have become global in their scale and impact. These processes transcend state boundaries and vary in outcome across places and scales.
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| Physical geography | show 🗑
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| show | Pertaining to space on the Earth's surface and is used as a synonym for geographic .
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | The design of a spatial distribution, that is scatterred or concentrated etc.
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| Medical Geography | show 🗑
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| Pandemic | show 🗑
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| Epidemic | show 🗑
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| Spatial perspective | show 🗑
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| Five Themes of Geography | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| Location Theory | show 🗑
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| show | The second theme of Geography it concerns itself with reciprocal relationships between humans and environment
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Place | show 🗑
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| show | State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that placeor by labeling a place with a certain character.
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| Perception of place | show 🗑
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| show | The interaction of various factors of geography across space. For example Distance decay analyzes space by saying the greater distance one gets away from a stimulous the weaker it becomes.
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| Distance | show 🗑
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| show | the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations. It varies from place to place andit can be measured
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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| Landscape | show 🗑
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| Cultural landscape | show 🗑
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| Sequent occupance | show 🗑
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| show | The art and science of making maps, including dat compilation, layout and design. It is also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns
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| Reference maps | show 🗑
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| show | Maps that tell storie, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of geographic phenomena
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| show | The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minuts and seconds of latitude 0 to 90 degrees north or south and longitude 0 to 180 degrees east or west of the prime meridian (0) passing through Greenwich, Eng
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| show | A satellite based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
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| Reference maps | show 🗑
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| Thematic maps | show 🗑
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| show | The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude 0 to 90 degrees north or south and longitude 0 to 180 degrees east or west of the prime meridian (0) passing through Greenwich, En
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| show | A satellite based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
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| show | The regional position or situation of a place in relation to other places.
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| Mental map | show 🗑
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| show | The space within which daily activity occurs
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| Remote sensing | show 🗑
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | show 🗑
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| Rescale | show 🗑
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| show | A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena
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| Functional region | show 🗑
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| Perceptual region | show 🗑
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| show | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavioral patterns shared and transmitted by members of a society.
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| show | A single element of normal practice in a culture.
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| Culture complex | show 🗑
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| Cultural Hearth | show 🗑
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| Independent invention | show 🗑
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| show | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element from its place of origin to a wider area
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| show | The effects of distance and time on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less the interaction.
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| show | Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadopable in a particular culture
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| show | the distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
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| show | a form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas, with geographic distance of less
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| show | A form of diffusion iin which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
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| show | Sequential diffusion processes in which items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate old areas and relocate in new areas. The most common form of this type of diffusion involves the spread of innovations by a migrating po
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| show | The view that environment is the governing factor in influencing the various factors of human life. Long a justification for racists to sell their case about the superiority of europeans over people from other less habitable place in the world
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| Political Ecology | show 🗑
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