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Text book chapter one flash cards for Coach Eager's class.

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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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