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| Five Themes of Geography | show |
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| Landscape | an area that is less defined than a region and is described in an abstract manner | show 🗑
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| show | that part of the physical landscape that represents material culture; buildings, roads, bridges and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape | the golden gate bride ( bridges or roads )
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| Sequent Occupancy | show |
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| Cultural Landscape | the natural landscape as modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group or society; the built environment | show 🗑
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| show | the quantity of some feature (people, buildings, animals, traffic, etc.) per unit area or size |
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| Arithmetic Density | show | the total amount of cereal pieces in your bowl
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| Physiological Density | show |
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| Agricultural density | the number of rural residents per unit of agriculturally productive land; a variant of physiological density that excludes urban population | show 🗑
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| Intervening Opportunity | if one place has a demand for some good or service and two places have a supply of equal price and quality, the supplier closer to the buyer will represent an intervening opportunity, thereby blocking the third from being able to share its supply of goods or services; frequently used because transportation costs usually decrease with proximity | show 🗑
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| Hearth | show | what originated where
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| Relocation Diffusion | the diffusion of ideas, innovations, behaviors, and so on from one place to another through migration | show 🗑
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| Expansion Diffusion | show | hierarchical (crocs) or contagious (disease) diffusion
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| Hierarchical Diffusion (EX) | diffusion in which something is transmitted between places because of a physical or cultural connection between those places OR spread from a person of authority to other persons and places. | show 🗑
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| show | diffusion through direct contact with another person or another place OR the rapid widespread diffusion throughout a population. |
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| Stimulus Diffusion | diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place | show 🗑
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| Culture | show | Jews wearing Kipas to distinguish themselves from non-Jews
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| show | innovations developed in two or more unconnected locations by individuals or groups acting independently | telephone; agriculture
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| Cultural Ecology | the study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments in which they live | show 🗑
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| Culture Trait | show | Wearing of a turban. (Muslims); a pencil is a culture trait, football, bat, fishhook, keeping cattle, handshake, gestures, and house
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| Culture Hearth | show |
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| Cultural diffusion | show |
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| Sense of Place | show | feeling emotional about a Church or feeling patriotic when in Washington, D.C.
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| show | a particular geographic location with its unique biophysical, cultural, and social characteristic | NA
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| Perception of Place | show | :people from North Carolina believing the south is a racist gun loving place
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| Placelessness | the loss of locally distinctive characteristics and identity and replacement by standardized landscapes | show 🗑
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| show | the declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source | Predicts that demand will peak at some distance relatively close to a source market and then decline exponentially as distance increases
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| show | direction with respect to global location references, such as cardinal directions or macroscopic features | using a compass to find your way and it points north
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| Relative Direction | show | left,right,up,down,etc.
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| Friction of Distance | a measure of the restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction. Generally, the greater the distance, the greater the "friction" and the less the interaction, or the great the cost of achieving the interaction | show 🗑
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| show | the spatial arrangement of a phenomenon |
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| Dispersed/ Scattered Settlement | a type of distribution in which there does not seem to be any type of agglomeration incidences are well separated from one another | show 🗑
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| Clustered/Agglomerated/ Nucleated Settlement | show |
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| Absolution Location (EX) | show | using latitude and longitude to plot the absolute location of Chicago (41 degrees,53 minutes North Latitude and 87 degrees 38 minutes West longitude
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| Relative Location | show |
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| Site | the immediate environment of a place | show 🗑
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| show | the way in which a particular place relates to the space that surrounds it | New Orleans is close to the mouth of the Mississippi River
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| Toponym | show | Philippines; Gulfport
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| show | straight pattern | french long lots; houses along a street
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| Centralized Pattern | show | Central Business Districts of Cities in More developed countries
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| show | a pattern with no specific order or logic behind its arrangement | The data in which how many immigrants migrate into the United States would be considered a random pattern due to the fact there is no constant pattern as to why.
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| Location Theory | a logical attempt to explain the location pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | geographic viewpoint--a response to determinism-- that holds that human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development. ; view the environment as providing a set of broad constraints that limits the possibilities of human choice. | show 🗑
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| show | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. Also referred to as environmentalism | Jamaicans with their relaxed, laid back and attitudes. Environmental determinists would argue that this has to do with the fact that Jamaica is based in a tropical climate. On the other hand, environmental determinists say that a climate which has a frequent variability in the weather, such as in the Netherlands, will lead to more determined and driven work ethics.
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| Region | show | Rain Forest, Northeast, South, The Americas
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| show | region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena | French is spoken in Europe by a majority of different people
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| Functional/Nodal Region | region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it | show 🗑
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| Perceptual/Vernacular Region | a region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity | show 🗑
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| show | the scale at which a geographer analyzes a particular phenomenon; Generally the finer the scale of analysis the richer the level of detail in the findings | global, national, census tract, neighborhood, etc
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| Spatial Distribution | show | population throughout the state of Wyoming
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| Spatial Interaction | a dynamic flow process from one location to another. | show 🗑
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| Accessibility | ease of movement between places | show 🗑
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| Connectivity | show | roads, phones, the internet
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| Network | show | EX. Social Network, internet
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| Distance Decay | show |
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| Friction of Distance | show |
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| Time-space Compression | show | the shrinking world
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| Qualitative Data | show | Mississippi has a variety of rivers, wildlife, and hilly landscapes
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| Quantitative Data | show the spatial characteristic of numerical data- shows variation from place to place | show 🗑
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| Boundary | a versatile place that cuts through the rocks below and the airspace above | show 🗑
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| show | 6 types: Area: total land of a country on a world map may be more or less than on the ground; Shape: will be distorted; Direction: map cannot be used to navigate in a straight line; Bearing: a straight line drawn between two points on the map will not be the same when using a compass to navigate in the real world; Distance: calculating the distance on the ground from two points on the map = not accurate; Scale: only valid where the flat map projection intersects with the sphere of the Earth. | NA
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| show | the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale | social media and pop culture
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| Geographic Information System | is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. | show 🗑
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| North and South Poles | the points farthest north and south on the Earth along its axis | show 🗑
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| show | a circle draw around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians |
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| Equator | an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles | show 🗑
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| show | the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a global and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian. |
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| show | An arc drawn between the North and South poles; A measure of Longitude | NA
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| Prime Meridian | 0 degrees Longitude | show 🗑
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| International Date Line | show |
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| Small Scale Map | show | world map
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| show | have higher resolution and cover much smaller regions | city map; neighborhoods
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| Mental Map | An individual's internal geographic understanding of a place. A mental image that people create from perceived information that reflects both the physical environment and the individual's social and cultural framework. No two ____ maps of the same place will look exactly the same | show 🗑
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| Reference Map | show | standard road map
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| Thematic/Proportional Symbol Map | Present a specific spatial distribution or a single category data. widely-used form of thematic mapping. In this technique, the cartographer selects a symbol and alters its size, the area to be exact, based on the data values. There are three methods for setting symbol size: absolute scaling, apparent magnitude (perceptual) scaling, and range grading. | show 🗑
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| Statistical Map | A special type of map in which the variation in quantity of a factor such as rainfall, population, or crops in a geographic area is indicated | show 🗑
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| Cartogram Map | a thematic map that shows the values of a quantitative variable for each values of a quantitative variable fore reach region by shrinking or expanding the sizes of the regions to correspond with the variables value | show 🗑
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| Dot Map | thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences | show 🗑
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| Choropleth Map | show | weather maps
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| Isoline Map | show | elevation, travel times in the united states
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| Azimuthal Projection | show | if you plant a pushpin in the center of a sphere and draw lines in a downward motion, they'd all be proportional
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| Fuller Projection | show | NA
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| show | Invented by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for ships navigating across the Atlantic Ocean in 1569. The map is meant for direction. However, the projection distorts sizes of areas, particularly as you get closer to the North and South poles | NA
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| show | A map that curves inward to fix the distortion of the Mercator, but makes the landmasses look smaller than they really are. It is an attempt to balance all distortions by making errors in all 4 ways. As a result, it is a good projection for general use | NA
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| show | any of several techniques of obtaining images of an area or object without having the sensor in direct physical contact with it, as by aerial photography or satellite sensors | satellites
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| show | An area with an established standard time. There are 24. Each is 15 degrees apart. Prime Meridian. The meridian at 0 degrees longitude that intersects Greenwich, England. | pacific standard
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| Greenwich Mean Time | show | NA
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| show | Geographer from the University of California at Berkley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results from the interaction between humans and the physical environment. Sauer argued that virtually no landscape has escaped alteration by human activities | NA
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| show | the local areas within which people move or travel in the course of their daily activities. is a measure of individual spatial behavior that theoretically accounts for these individual and environmental differences and offers an alternative approach to studying geographic accessibility | Mrs Kirks : school, Dunkin donuts down the street, home
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| Township | a square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United Sates into a series of these. | show 🗑
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| show | a square normally one mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 of these. |
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| show | Introduced in 1974 by Arno Peters, and focuses on keeping landmasses equal in area. As a result, the shapes are distorted, and the map looks unfamiliar to viewers. More fairly shows the third world countries. Countries shapes are distorted, but area is accurate |
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| Time-Space Convergence | idea that distance between some places is shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction among those places | show 🗑
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| Uneven development | show | wealth and poverty in China
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| show | implies the extent of a area and can be in a relative and absolute sense | an empty parking lot or a uninhabited patch of land
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| show | maps that tell a story about a place. |
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| GIS( Geographical information systems) | show |
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| show | the way in which land is used within a given area |
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| show | Images of the Earth taken from artificial satellites orbiting the planet |
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| Satelite navigation system | show |
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| show | the way that the world is seemingly getting smaller, or compressing, as a result of increased transport, communications, and capitalist processes. |
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| show | an account of a journey that provides information about the ethnographic, biogeographic, and/or physical characteristics of an are |
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| Latitude | show | a vertical line (ruler) or the measure of someone's height
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