Human Geography Chapter 1 Vocab
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show | The spatial study of people, place, space, and environment.
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show | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human phenomena, including population, cultures, activities, and landscapes.
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Globalization | show 🗑
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Fieldwork | show 🗑
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Patterns | show 🗑
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Physical Geography | show 🗑
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Spatial distribution | show 🗑
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Pandemic | 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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Relative location | show 🗑
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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. The von Thünen model is an example.
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Human-environment interactions | show 🗑
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Environmental determinism | show 🗑
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show | Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates.
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Possibilism | show 🗑
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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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Political Ecology | show 🗑
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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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Formal 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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show | How a place is envisioned.
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show | Mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth (one of the five themes of geography).
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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 | The measured physical space
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Accessibility | show 🗑
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Connectivity | show 🗑
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Expansion 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 proximity. Specific type of expansion diffusion.
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Hierarchical Diffusion | show 🗑
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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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show | The visible human imprint on the landscape.
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show | Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of successive societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape.
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Scale | show 🗑
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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 geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act.
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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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Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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show | Maps of an area made from memory or experience by individuals or groups (also known as cognitive maps).
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show | Places within the rounds of daily activity.
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show | Areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker.
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Remote sensing | show 🗑
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | show 🗑
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show | Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people.
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show | A group of interrelated cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.
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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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