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Chapter 1

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Definition
show Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter  
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Acculturation   show
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show The price by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant group  
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Atmosphere   show
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Behavioral geography   show
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Biosphere   show
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show Compose of living organisms  
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show The science of making maps  
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show Scientific research by amateur scientist  
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show The long-term average weather condition at a particular location  
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show The spread of something over a given area  
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show The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space  
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show The sustainable management of a natural resource  
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show The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population  
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Cultural ecology   show
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Cultural landscape   show
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show The body of customary belief, social form, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition  
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show The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area  
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Diffusion   show
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Distance decay   show
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Distribution   show
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show The scientific study of ecosystems  
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show A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact  
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show A nineteenth and twentieth century approach to the study of geography; argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in physical sciences Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities  
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Expansion diffusion   show
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show An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics  
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Functional region (nodal region)   show
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Geographic information science (GIScience)   show
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show A computer system that stores, organizes, analysis, and displays geographic data  
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show Identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates  
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show A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers  
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show Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope  
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show The time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude  
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Hearth   show
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Hierarchical diffusion   show
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Humanistic geography   show
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show All of the water on and near Earth's surface  
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International Date Line   show
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show The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0 degrees)  
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show Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust  
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show The position of anything on Earth's surface  
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Longitude   show
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show A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it  
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show The relationship between the size of an object and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface  
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Mashup   show
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show A representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place that contains personal impressions of what is in the place and where the place is located  
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Meridian   show
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Network   show
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Nonrenewable resource   show
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Parallel   show
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Participatory GIS (PGIS)   show
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Pattern   show
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show A specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic  
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show Land that the Dutch have created by draining water from an area  
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show The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives  
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show The study of space as the product of ideologies or value systems of ruling elites  
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Preservation   show
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show The meridian, designed as 0 degrees longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England  
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show A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map  
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Region   show
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show The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another  
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show The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods  
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show Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans  
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Resource   show
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Scale   show
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show The physical character of a place  
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show The location of a place relative to another place  
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show The physical gap or interval between two objects  
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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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Spatial association   show
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Stimulus diffusion   show
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Sustainability   show
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Syncretism   show
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Toponym   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 a part of their cultural identity  
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show Creation and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and for free by individuals  
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