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Concentration

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The extent of a feature’s spread over space

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Contagious Diffusion

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The rapid and widespread diffusion of a a characteristic throughout the population

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Cultural Ecology

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The geographic study of human-environment relationships

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Cultural Landscape

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A combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features

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Density

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The frequency with which something occurs in space

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Diffusion

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The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time

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Distance Decay

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The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

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Environmental Determinism

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An approach on how the physical environment caused social development

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Expansion Diffusion

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The spread of a feature from one place to another through a process and is not always immediate

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Functional region

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An area organized around a node of focal point

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GIS

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A computer system that captures, stores, query, analyzes, and displays geographic data

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GPS

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A system that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth

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Globalizaton

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A force of process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope

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Hearth

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The place from which an innovation originates

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Hierarchal diffusion

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The spread of an idea from people or nodes of authority or power to other people or places

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Mental map

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An internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface

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Physiological Density

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The number of people per unit of area suitable for agriculture

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Polders

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Pieces of land that’s created by draining a body of water from any area

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Possiblism

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The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives

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Projection

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The scientific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to a flat map

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Region

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An area of earth’s surface distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features

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Relocation Diffusion

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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

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Remote Sensing

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The acquisition of data about earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting earth or from other long-distance methods

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Scale

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The relationship between the portion of earth being shown/studied and earth as a whole

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Site

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Absolute location……The physical character of a place

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Situation

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The location of a place relative to other places

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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

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Sustainability

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The way we use earth’s resources to ensure the resources’ availability

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Toponym

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The name given to a place on earth

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Vernacular (perceptual) region

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A place that people think exists as a part of their cultural identity

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Cartography

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The science of map making

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Formal region

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Any area that has clearly defined boundaries. (City, state, country,etc)

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Chloropleth map

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Shows you by county, country, or state where something is

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Dot distribution map

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Lots of dots everywhere that are the same size

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Isoline map

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Wavy lines everywhere, weather maps

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Proportional map

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Dot sizes vary based on the amount of the thing being measured