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show | Fieldwork
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One of the two major divisions of geography, the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | show 🗑
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show | Globalization
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One of the two major divisions of geography. The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the Earth’s natural phenomena (climate, soil, plants, animals, topography, etc). | show 🗑
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Pertaining to space on the Earth’s surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic. | show 🗑
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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space. | show 🗑
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show | Pattern
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The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. | show 🗑
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show | Pandemic
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Regional outbreak of a disease | show 🗑
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show | Spatial Perspective
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The geographic situation of people and things | show 🗑
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A logical attempt to explain the location pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. | show 🗑
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show | Human Environment
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show | Region
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Uniqueness of a location | show 🗑
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State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling it with a certain character. | show 🗑
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Belief or “understanding” about a place developed through books, movies, stories, or pictures. | show 🗑
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The mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet | show 🗑
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show | Spatial Interaction
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show | Distance
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The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations. It varies from place to place and can be measured. | show 🗑
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show | Connectivity
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show | Landscape
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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants. | show 🗑
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show | Sequent Occupance
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show | Cartography
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show | Reference Maps
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show | Thematic Maps
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The position of a certain item on the Earth expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude (north and south of the equator), and longitude (east and west of the Prime Meridian) | show 🗑
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Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features | show 🗑
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A hunt for cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers. | show 🗑
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show | Relative Location
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Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual’s perception, impression, and knowledge of that space. | show 🗑
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The places we travel routinely in our rounds of daily activity | show 🗑
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show | Remote Sensing
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show | Geographic Information System (GIS)
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show | Rescale
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show | Formal Region
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show | Functional Region
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A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as physically demarcated entity. | show 🗑
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show | Culture
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A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. | show 🗑
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A related set of cultural traits such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils | show 🗑
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show | Cultural Hearth
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The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance, the less the interaction. | show 🗑
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show | Cultural Barriers
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The expansion and adoption of a cultural element from its place of origin to a wider area. | show 🗑
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show | Expansion Diffusion
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show | Contagious Diffusion
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show | Hierarchical Diffusion
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A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place. | show 🗑
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Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused area transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. | show 🗑
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Ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions. | show 🗑
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The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. Also referred to as environmentalism. | show 🗑
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show | Isotherms
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Geographic viewpoint–a response to determinism–that holds that human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development. | show 🗑
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The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment. | show 🗑
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show | Political Ecology
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