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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| Spatial | show 🗑
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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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| show | The study of health and disease within a geographic context, and from a geographic prospective. Among other things This branch of geography looks at sources and diffusion patterns of diseases.
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| show | An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide
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| show | Regional outbreak of a disease
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| show | Observing variations of geographic phenomena across space
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| Five Themes of Geography | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| show | A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity, and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. the Agricultural location theory of Von Thunen is a prime example.
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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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| show | The fourth theme of geography. This reflects a perception of uniqueness of a location.
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| Sense of place | show 🗑
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| Perception of place | show 🗑
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| Spatial interaction | show 🗑
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| show | The mesurement of the physical space between places
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| Accessibility | show 🗑
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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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| show | Maps that show absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame reference, typically latitude and longitude
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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, 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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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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| show | Maps that show absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame reference, typically latitude and longitude
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| Thematic maps | show 🗑
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| Absolute location | show 🗑
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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| show | The regional position or situation of a place in relation to other places.
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| show | Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individuals perception, impression and knowledge of that space
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| Activity space | show 🗑
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| Remote sensing | show 🗑
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| show | A collection of computer hardware and software which allows us to compile very specific data about the Earth
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| show | Involvement of players at other scales to generat support for an initiative or position.
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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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| show | A region defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.
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| show | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. For example the US South.
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| Culture | show 🗑
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| show | A single element of normal practice in a culture.
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| show | A related set of cultural traits such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating materials
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| Cultural Hearth | show 🗑
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| Independent invention | show 🗑
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| Cultural diffusion | show 🗑
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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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| Cultural Barrier | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of an innovation or idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination
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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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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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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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