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| show | A precise position on the Earth's surface
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| Behavioral geography | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Climate | show 🗑
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| show | Position close together. Often used interchangeably with "concentration".
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| Complementarity | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of something over a given area versus another area.
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| show | The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
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| Conservation | show 🗑
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| show | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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| show | A geographic approach that emphasizes human–environment relationships.
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| show | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena
in a particular study area.
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| Culture* | show 🗑
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| show | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.
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| show | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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| show | Diffused or spread out over an area.
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| Distance decay * | show 🗑
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | An approach to the study of geography which argued that the
general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.
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| Expansion diffusion * | show 🗑
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| Formal region (or uniform region) * | show 🗑
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| Friction of distance* | show 🗑
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| show | An area organized around a node or focal point.
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| Geographic information system (GIS) * | show 🗑
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| Geotagging | show 🗑
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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° longitude.
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| Hearth * | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons
or places.
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| Humanistic geography | show 🗑
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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°).
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| Location * | show 🗑
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| Longitude | show 🗑
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| Map | show 🗑
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| Map scale | show 🗑
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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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| show | A chain of communication that connects places.
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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 | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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| Place * | show 🗑
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| Polder | show 🗑
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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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| Prime meridian | show 🗑
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| Projection | show 🗑
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| Region * | show 🗑
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| show | The position of one place or person in relation to another place or person.
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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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| Remote sensing * | show 🗑
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| Renewable resource | show 🗑
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| Resource | show 🗑
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| show | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
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| Sense of place * | 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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| Soil depletion * | show 🗑
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| show | The physical gap or interval between two objects.
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| Space–time compression * | show 🗑
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| Spatial association * | show 🗑
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| Spatial diffusion * | show 🗑
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| show | The connectivity of people, businesses, or other features across space.
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| Spatial perspective * | show 🗑
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| Stimulus diffusion * | show 🗑
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| show | The use of Earth’s renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain
resource use in the future.
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| Syncretism * | show 🗑
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| show | A map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes, and sometimes the
relationship between them.
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| show | The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface.
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| Transnational corporation * | show 🗑
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| Uneven development | show 🗑
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| show | Creation and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and for free by individuals.
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| show | Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter.
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| show | The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth.
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| Biosphere | show 🗑
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| Biotic | show 🗑
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| Ecology | show 🗑
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| show | A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact.
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| show | All of the water on and near Earth’s surface.
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| Lithosphere | show 🗑
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