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This is Geography

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formal region/uniform region   area within with everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics  
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functional region/nodal region   area organized around a node where the characteristic diminishes in importance away from the node  
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vernacular region/perceptual region   area that people believe is a part of their cultural identify  
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cultural landscape   combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation  
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culture   body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people  
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culture includes   what people care about and what people take care of  
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spatial association   the degree to which the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another  
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globalization   a process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope  
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distribution   arrangement of a feature in space  
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density   the frequency with which something occurs in space  
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concentration   the extent of a feature's spread over space  
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pattern   the geometric arrangement of objects in space  
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humanistic geography   emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about places and give those places symbolic meanings  
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behavioral geography   emphasizes importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space  
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sex   a biological attribute  
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gender   a social construct that varies from society to society and across time and that can be changed  
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diffusion   the process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time  
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hearth   the place from which a feature or innovation originates  
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relocation diffusion   the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another  
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expansion diffusion   the spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process  
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hierarchical diffusion   spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places  
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contagious diffusion   the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population  
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stimulus diffusion   the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse  
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distance decay   the theory that the farther away someone is from another, the less likely they are to interact  
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space-time compression   the lessening of a distance decay in the modern world because the connection between places takes much less time  
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assimilation   process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group's  
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acculturation   process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups  
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syncretism   combining of elements of 2 groups into a new cultural form  
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resource   substance in the environment that is useful to people, economy, and technologically feasible to access and socially acceptable to use  
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sustainability   use of earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future  
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ecosystem   group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact  
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ecology   the study of ecosystems  
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cultural ecology   the study of human-environment relationships  
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environmental determinism   the physical environment causes social development  
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possibilism   the environment sets some limits, but people have the ability to adjust  
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