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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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show 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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show body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people  
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show what people care about and what people take care of  
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show the degree to which the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another  
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globalization   show
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distribution   show
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density   show
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show the extent of a feature's spread over space  
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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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gender   show
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diffusion   show
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show the place from which a feature or innovation originates  
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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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hierarchical diffusion   show
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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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space-time compression   show
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assimilation   show
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show process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups  
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syncretism   show
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resource   show
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sustainability   show
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ecosystem   show
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show the study of ecosystems  
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show the study of human-environment relationships  
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environmental determinism   show
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possibilism   show
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