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Barron's Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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show anthropogenic  
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show cartography  
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the study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they live in   show
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show cultural landscape  
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show earth system science  
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the intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa   show
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show Eratosthenes  
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show fertile crescent  
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show geographical information systems  
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a set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device.   show
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show idiographic  
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inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, his classic work, Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions.   show
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the physical landscape or environment that has not been impacted by human actions   show
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concepts or rules that can be applied universally   show
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show W.D. Pattison  
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the realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of earth's surface   show
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show ptolemy  
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data associated with a more humanistic approach to geography, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives.   show
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show quantitative data  
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show quantitative revolution  
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show region  
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the study of geographic regions   show
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show remote sensing  
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Geographer from the Unicersity of California at Berkeley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results from interaction between humans and the physical environment. Sauer argued ta   show
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show sense of place  
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an intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of specigic phenomena, how and why that phenomena is where it is, and, finally, how it is spatially related to phenomena in other places   show
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the concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations   show
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show systematic geography  
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show thematic layers  
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show vernacular regions  
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