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58 vocabulary words

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show The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture  
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show The total number of people divided by the total land area  
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show An east-west line designated under the Land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the united states.  
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cartography   show
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show the spread of some thing over a given area  
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show relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space  
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show the rpaid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population  
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show geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationships  
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cultural landscape   show
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show the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition  
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density   show
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show the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with the increasing distance from its origin.  
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distribution   show
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show A nineteenth- and early twentieth- century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.  
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show the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process  
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formal region   show
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show an area organized around a node or focal point  
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show a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data  
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global positioning system   show
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show actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something world wide in scope.  
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show the time in in that zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 longitude  
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Hearth   show
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show the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places  
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show an arc that for the most part follows 180 longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas.  
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show a law that divided much of the united states into townships to facilitate the sale of the land to the equator.  
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latitude   show
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show the position of anything on Earths surface  
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longitude   show
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map   show
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show a representation of a portion of earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located.  
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show an arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles  
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show a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridian  
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show the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area  
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show the number of people per unit of area of arable land,, which is land suitable for agriculture  
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show a specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character  
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polder   show
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possibilism   show
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show the meridian, designated as 0 longitude, that passes through the royal observatory at Greenwich, England.  
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principal meridian   show
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show the system used to transfer locations from earth's surface to a flat map  
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region   show
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show an approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area  
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relocation diffusion   show
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remote sensing   show
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resource   show
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scale   show
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section   show
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site   show
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show the location of a place relative to another place  
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space   show
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show the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems  
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stimulus diffusion   show
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toponym   show
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township   show
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transnational corporation   show
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show the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy  
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show an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity  
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