1.1 Vocab Flashcards

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Absolute Location

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exact place on earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude

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Administrative Region

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the territorial units which a country is divided in

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Biome

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a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat

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Cartography

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a science or practice of drawing maps

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Choropleth

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a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property

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Concentration

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  • The spread of objects in a given area
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Contagious Diffusion

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the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

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Cultural Autonomy

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  • Cultures Develop Independently of their own environment.
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Cultural Ecology

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The Study of Human Adaptations to social and physical environments

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Culture

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  • the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
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Density

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  • The quantity of people or things in a given area of space.
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Distance-Decay

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The tendency of a spatial relationship between one place and another to weaken as the distance between them increases

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Distribution

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  • The way something is spread-out or arranged over a geographic area.
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Dot-Distribution

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  • Maps that use dot symbols to show the presence or quantity of a phenomenon.
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Environmental Determinism

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  • A philosophy of geography that stated that human behaviors are a direct result of the surrounding environment.
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Equator

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  • An imaginary circle of latitude around the middle of the earth.
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Eratosthenes

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  • A Man who created the word geography, accepted the Earth is spherical, calculated its circumference, and created a map of the Earth dividing it into climatic regions
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Expansion Diffusion

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  • When innovations spread to new places while staying strong in their original locations.
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Functional Region

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An area organized around a focal point or node.

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Diffusion

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  • The Act of Spreading Elements of culture to another region or people
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Formal Region

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An area within which everyone shares distinctive characteristics