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What is human geography   the study of people and places. Focuses on how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world  
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Human Geography   focuses on how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world  
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Geographic Questions   Why and how do things come together in certain places to produce particular outcomes? Why are some things found in certain places but not in others? How do the characteristics of particular places shape what happens? etc.  
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Geographic Questions   To what extent do things in one place influence those in other places? Why do differences across geographic space matter? What role does a place play in its region and in the world, and what does that mean for people there and elsewhere?  
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The Five Themes   Location, Human Environment, Region, Place, Movement.  
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Globalization   a set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and accelerating interdependence across nation borders.  
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Physical Geography   the study of natural environment  
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Spatial Distribution   physical location of geographic phenomena across space  
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Patterns   the design of a particular spatial distribution  
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Medical Geography   mapping distributions to find the cause of a disease  
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Pandemics   a worldwide outbreak of disease  
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Epidemic   regional outbreak of a disease  
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Spatial Perspective   observing variations in geographic phenomena across space  
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Location   highlights how geographical position of people and things on earth's surface affects what happens and why  
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Human Environment   reciprocal relationship between humans and environment  
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Region   an area on the earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomena  
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Place   uniqueness of a location  
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Movement   the mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet  
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Perception of Place   where we have never been through books, movies, stories, and pictures  
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Sense of Place   infusing a place with meaning and emotion  
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Spatial interaction   the measured physical space between two places  
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Accessibility   the ease of reaching one location from another  
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Connectivity   the degree of linkage between locations in a network  
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Cultural Landscape   the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape  
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Cartography   the art and science of making maps  
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Reference Maps   shows locations of places and geographic features  
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Thematic Maps   tell stories and typically show the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomena  
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Global Positioning System   allows us to locate things on the surface of the earth with extraodinary accuracy  
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Geocaching   use of using a GPS to play a treasure hunt game all over the world  
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Relative Location   describes the location of a place in relation to other human and physical features  
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Activity Spaces   places we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity  
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Generalized Map   the map of world precipitation  
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Remote Sensing   technology that gathers data at a distance from earth's surface  
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Formal Region   can be a shared cultural trait or a physical trait  
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Functional Region   particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it  
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Perceptual Regions   intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena  
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Culture   all-encompassing term that identifies not only the whole tangible lifestyle of peoples, but also their prevailing values and beliefs. It lies at the heart of human geography  
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Culture Trait   a single attribute of a culture  
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Culture Complex   More than one culture that exhibits a particular culture trait  
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Absolute Location   Precise positioning of a place on the surface of the earth  
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Relative Location   Location of a place in relation to other places  
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Time-space Compression   Apparent compression/collapsing of distance by faster means of transportation and communication  
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Human-environment interaction   how earths environment has changed over time, how have humans impacted the earths environment, what major factors are contributing to environment, how are humans responding to environment change.  
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Place   All spaces on earth have their own combination of cultural and physical features that combine to make them unique, inscribes space as a meaningful location  
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Region   area on earths surface in which places within that area share similar characteristics.  
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Formal region   area which is homogeneous with respect to defined criteria(share characteristics)  
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Core area   clearely exemplified or found in their greatest intensity in numbers.  
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Functional Region   area that has been organized to function socially, economically, or politically, and is defined by movement in and out of a central point or focus of activity.  
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Scale   Level of geographical resolution, Local, Regional, National, Global.  
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Diffusion   spread of innovation from origin to other places.  
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Contagious Diffusion   spreads of innovation from origin to its nearest neighbor.  
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Hierarchical Diffusion   spread of an innovation from origin and then filtering down. Ex: Fashion, Movies.  
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