chapter 1 vocab
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| Agricultural Density | the number of farmers per unit of farmland.
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| Arithmetic Desity | Total number of objects in an area.
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| Base line | East and west lines separating townships
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| Cartography | the art of making maps.
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| Concentration | extent of a features spread over space.
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| Connection | relationships between people and objects across the barrier of space.
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| Contagious Diffusion | rapid, widespread diffusion of characteristic throughout the population.
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| Cultural Ecology | study of human-environment relationships.
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| Cultural Landscape | a combination of cultural features.
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| Culture | body of customary beliefs.
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| Density | Something occurs in space.
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| Diffusion | characteristics spread across space from one place to another.
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| Distance Decay | the farther something gets the more likely it is to disappear.
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| Distribution | the arrangement of a feature in space.
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| Environmental Determination | physical environment caused social development.
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| Expansion Diffusion | the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.
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| Formal region | everyone shares a common one or more distinctive characteristics.
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| Functional Region | area organized around a node or focal point.
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| Geography Information System (GIS) | computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data.
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| GPS | accurately determines a position on earths surface.
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| Globalization | involves the entire world and results in making something world wide.
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| Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | the time that ti international date line is set to.
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| Hearth | where innovation originates.
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| Hierarchical Diffusion | spread of ideas from persons or nodes from authority or power to other persons.
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| International Date Line | moves the clock back 24 hours.
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | divided the united states into a bunch of townships.
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| Latitide | lines that go east and west on earth.
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| Location | Geographers describe a place on earth.
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| Longitude | line that goes north to south on the earth.
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| Map | 2-d or flat diagram of earths surface.
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| Mental Map | a useful way to identify a perceptual region.
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| Meridian | arc drawn between the north ad south poles (longitude)
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| Parallel | circle around the globe parallel to the equator and at a right angle to the meridian. (latitude)
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| Pattern | geometric arrangements in space.
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| Physiological Density | the umber of persons suitable in an area for agriculture.
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| Place | specific point on earth.
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| Polder | land that is created by draining water from an area.
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| Possibilism | adjusting to the environment.
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| Prime Meridian | 0 degree longitude that starts in Greenwich England.
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| Principle Meridian | north and south lines separating townships.
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| Projection | transferring locations on earth surface to a flat map.
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| Region | place on earth distinguished by culture and physical features.
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| Regional Studies | cultural landscape approach in geography.
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| Relocation Diffusion | the spread of ideas through physical movement.
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| Remote Sensing | scans earths surface.
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| Resources | endowing the physical environment with cultural values.
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| Scale | relationship between the portions of earth being studied and earth as a whole.
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| Sections | 1x1 mile of land in a township usually 36 sections.
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| Site | Physical character of a place.
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| Situation | location of a place relative to another place.
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| Space | physical gap or interval between two objects.
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| Space-Time Compression | reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place.
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| Stimulus Diffusion | spread of an underlying principle.
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| Toponym | name of a given place on earth.
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| Township | square of 6 miles on each side 6x6
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| Transnational Corp. | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in may countries.
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| Uneven Development | the increasing gap between economic conditions.
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| Vernacular Region | place that people think exist as part of their cultural identity.
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