Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| show | The spatial study of people, place, space, and environment
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| Human Geography | show 🗑
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| Fieldwork | show 🗑
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| Patterns | show 🗑
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| show | One of the two major divisions on geography; the spatial analysis of physical phenomena, including climate, environmental hazards, weather systems, animals, and topography.
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| Epidemic | show 🗑
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| Geographic concepts | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| show | Precise location of a place, usually defined by latitude and longitude.
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| show | The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute.
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| Location theory | show 🗑
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| Human-environment interactions | show 🗑
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| show | Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth.
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| show | Theory in geography that humans, not environment, shape culture.
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| Carrying capacity | show 🗑
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| show | Study of the historical interaction between humans and environment in a place, including ways humans have modified and adapted to environment.
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| show | An approach to studying human- environment interactions in the context of political, economic, and historical conditions operating at multiple scales.
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| show | Area of earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual commonality that makes it different from regions around it (one of the five themes of geography).
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| show | Area of land with common cultural or physical traits.
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| show | A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture.
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| Functional region | show 🗑
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| Place | show 🗑
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| show | How a place is envisioned.
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| show | Spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places.
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| show | Degree of connectedness or contact among people or places.
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| show | Decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth.
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| show | Ease of flow between two places.
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| show | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.
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| Stimulus Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Cultural landscape | show 🗑
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| show | Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of success of societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape.
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| show | Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers and gatekeepers at another scale.
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| show | The physical and human geography creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act.
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Reference maps | show 🗑
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| show | A map that tells a story, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon using map symbols.
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| show | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic feature.
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| Mental maps | show 🗑
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| show | Places within the rounds of daily activity.
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| show | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g. satellites) that are physically distant from the area of study.
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | show 🗑
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| show | System of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people
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| Culture Complex | show 🗑
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| show | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network.
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| Perceptual/Vernacular Region | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of an idea or innovation from it’s hearth across space without the aid of people moving.
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| Contagious Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion.
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and depending relations across country borders.
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