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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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