Chapter one vocab - Rubenstein
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| show | Spatial
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| show | Absolute Location
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| the position of a place or activity in relation to other places or activities; implies spatial relationships and usually suggests the relative advantages or disadvantages of a location with respect to all competing locations | show 🗑
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| show | Site
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| show | Situation
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| show | Place name (TOPONYM)
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| the size of an area, from local to global | show 🗑
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| show | Physical Attributes
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| cultural landscape | show 🗑
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| the part of the physical landscape that represents material culture; the buildings, roads, bridges, and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape | show 🗑
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| successive habitation of the same area over time; builds layer after layer in the region | show 🗑
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| show | Environmental Determinism
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| the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives | show 🗑
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| show | Spatial interaction
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| show | Accessibility
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| the directness of routes linking pairs of places; an indication of the degree of internal connection in a transport network; all of the tangible and intangible means of connection and communication between places | show 🗑
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| show | Network
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| show | Distance Decay
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| a measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction; the great the distance, the greater the "friction" and the less the interaction or exchange, or the greater the cost of achieving the exchange | show 🗑
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| an influence on the rate of expansion diffusion of an idea, observing that the spread or acceptance of an idea is usually delayed as distance from the source of the innovation increases | show 🗑
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| show | Diffusion
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| show | Hearth
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| the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another | show 🗑
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| show | Expansion
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| the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other person or place; spread of culture from on important/large area or another important/large area | show 🗑
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| the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population; person to person spread of culture | show 🗑
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| the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected | show 🗑
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| show | Distribution
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| show | Arithmetic Density
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| the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | Dispersed/Scattered
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| show | Clustered/Agglomerated
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| an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features | show 🗑
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| an area in which everyone shared in one or more distinctive characteristics | show 🗑
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| show | Functional Region (Nodal)
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| show | Perceptual Region (Vernacular)
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| a two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or portion of it | show 🗑
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| a distance on a map relative to the distance on earth | show 🗑
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| area, distance, direction , shape | show 🗑
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| show | Projection
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| the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on the globe and measuring distance north and south of the Equator | show 🗑
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| show | Longitude
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| an imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England serving by agreement as the 0 degree line of longitude | show 🗑
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| imaginary east-west line that encircles the globe halfway between the North and South Poles | show 🗑
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| show | Meridian
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| an arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross it heading east, the clock moves back 24 hrs, and when you cross it going west the calender moves ahead 24 hrs | show 🗑
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| a map that demonstrates a particular feature or a single variable (5 types: dot, isoline, choropleth, proportional symbol) | show 🗑
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| show | Dot Map
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| a thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are depicted with shading patterns or colors for predefined zones | show 🗑
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| a thematic map with lines that connect points of equal value | show 🗑
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| a map that has been simplified to present a single idea in a diagrammatic way: the base is not normally true to scale | show 🗑
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| show | Proportional symbol Map
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| show | Mental Map (cognitive map)
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| show | Time Zone
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| a computer hardware and software system that handles geographically reference data; it uses and produces maps and has the ability to perform many types of spatial analysis | show 🗑
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| a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers | show 🗑
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| show | Remote Sensing
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| a simplified abstraction of reality, structured to clarify causal relationships | show 🗑
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