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This is Geography

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formal region/uniform region   show
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show area organized around a node where the characteristic diminishes in importance away from the node  
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vernacular region/perceptual region   show
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cultural landscape   show
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culture   show
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show what people care about and what people take care of  
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spatial association   show
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globalization   show
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distribution   show
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show the frequency with which something occurs in space  
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concentration   show
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show the geometric arrangement of objects in space  
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show emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about places and give those places symbolic meanings  
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show emphasizes importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space  
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show a biological attribute  
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show a social construct that varies from society to society and across time and that can be changed  
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show the process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time  
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hearth   show
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show the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another  
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expansion diffusion   show
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show spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places  
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contagious diffusion   show
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show the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse  
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distance decay   show
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show the lessening of a distance decay in the modern world because the connection between places takes much less time  
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show process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group's  
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acculturation   show
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show combining of elements of 2 groups into a new cultural form  
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resource   show
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sustainability   show
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show group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact  
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ecology   show
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show the study of human-environment relationships  
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environmental determinism   show
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show the environment sets some limits, but people have the ability to adjust  
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