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Geography   show
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show One of the two major divisions in geography; the spatial analysis of human phenomena, including population, cultures, activities, and landscapes.  
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Globalization   show
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show Observations researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences.  
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Patterns   show
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show One of the two majors divisions of 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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show An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide.  
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show Widespread, rapid diffusion of disease among a people in a particular location or region at a particular time.  
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Spatial Perspective   show
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show Mental catagories used to organize and analyze the worlds spatially.  
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Location   show
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Absolute Location   show
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show The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute.  
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show Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption.  
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show Reciprocal relationship between humans and environment.  
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Environmental Determinism   show
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Hearth   show
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show Theory in geography that humans, not environment, shape culture.  
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show The idea that land can hold measurable amount of plant and animal life.  
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Cultural Ecology   show
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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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Region   show
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Formal region   show
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Geography   show
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Human Geography   show
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Globalization   show
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show Observations researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences.  
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Patterns   show
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Physical Geography   show
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show Physical locations of geographic phenomena, usually shown on a map.  
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show An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide.  
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Epidemic   show
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show Looking at where things occur, why they occur where they do, and how places are interconnected.  
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show Mental catagories used to organize and analyze the worlds spatially.  
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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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show Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption.  
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Human-Environment Interactions   show
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show Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything form 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 historical interactions between humans and environment in a place, including ways human have modified and adapted to environment.  
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Political Ecology   show
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show Area of earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual commonality that makes different from regions around it.  
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show Area of land with common cultural or physical traits.  
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show A learned belief, norm, and values practiced by a people.  
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Functional Region   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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Place   show
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Sense of Place   show
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Perception of Place   show
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Movement   show
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show Mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth.  
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show A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture  
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show Area of land defined as sharing a common purpose in society  
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Nodes   show
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Perceptual/Vernacular Region   show
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Place   show
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show Infusing a place with meaning as a result of experiences in a place  
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Perception of Place   show
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show Mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth  
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Diffusion   show
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show Degree of connectedness or contact among people or places  
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Distance   show
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Accessibility   show
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Connectivity   show
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show The spread of an idea or innovation from its 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 to place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness.  
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Stimulus Diffusion   show
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show Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them.  
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Cultural Landscape   show
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Sequent Occupance   show
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show Geographical scope in which we analyze and understand a phenomena  
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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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Context   show
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Cartography   show
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show Maps showing absolute location of places and geographic features  
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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 places  
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Mental Maps   show
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show Places within the rounds of daily activity  
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Terra Incognita   show
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Remote sensing   show
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Geographic Information Systems   show
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Culture   show
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Culture Complex   show
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