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Chalter 1 Vocab Flashcards

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Study of soils

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Pedology

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The study of the surface of the earth and its changes

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Geomorphology

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Study of the long-range factors of temperature and precipitation on the region or zone

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Climatology

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Study of weather day to day

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Meteorology

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Includes flora and fauna

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Biosphere

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Study of population

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Demography

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Study of languages

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Linguistics

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Includes all modes of transportation and communication

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Infrastructure

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Study of man’s development and culture from pastor present

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Anthropology

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Combination of a people’s culture religion language and race

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Ethnicity

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Surrounding area of a functional region

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Hinterland

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Spatial spreading of ideas and culture from one place to another

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Diffusion

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Study of rocks in the interior of the earth

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Geology

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Factors that bring countries or nations together example same language or religion

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Centripetal forces

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Modern industrial factories in border Mexican towns

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Maquiladoras

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Study of oceans

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Oceanography

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Study of map making

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Cartography

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View of geography as a succession of stages of settlements as one culture replaces another example Islamic influence in Spain

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Sequent occupance

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Study of living things and their relationships in the environment

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Ecology

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The number of people per-unit area

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Population density

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Sum total of knowledge ideas traditions shared by members of society

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Culture

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Multi Metropolitan Corridors example Boston to Washington

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Megalopolis

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The way people have clustered in a region or country

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Population distribution

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Study of crop production and farming

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Agronomy

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Studies how people make a living on the earth

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Economic geography

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Forces that caused disunity within a country or region

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Centrifugal forces

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study of space boundaries and territory

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Political geography

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Three or more states or nations coming together for the economic or political benefit of all example European Union

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Supranationalism

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When a large group or region demands autonomy and separates from the central government

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Devolution

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Maps that tell stories typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of the geographic phenomenon

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Thematic map

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A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity in the manner in which it’s producing areas are interrelated

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Location theory

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The distance controlled spreading of an idea Innovation or some other item 3 local population by Contacts from person to person

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contagious diffusion

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The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations it varies from place to place and can be measured

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Accessibility

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The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment

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Cultural ecology

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One of the major divisions of geography the spatial analysis of human population it’s cultures activities and landscapes

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Human geography

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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space

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Spatial distribution

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Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by individuals perception impression and knowledge of that space

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Mental map

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State of mind derived from the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character

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Sense of place

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A region defined by that particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it

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Functional region

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A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distance from the area or objects of study

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Remote-sensing

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An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide

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Pandemic

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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape

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Cultural landscape

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Heartland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture

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Cultural hearth

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The cardinal points of north south east and west

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Absolute direction

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The transformation of linear measurements into meaningful units

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Relative distance

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Relationship between the size of an area on a map and the surface of the earth

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Scale

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The physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of a place itself

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Site

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The identification of a place by a precise and excepted system of coordinates

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Absolute location

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The spatial separation between two points on the earth surface

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Absolute distance

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The position of a place in relation to that of other places or activities

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Relative location

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The relative location with particular reference to items of significance to the place in question

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Situation

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Out west, back east, down south

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Relative direction

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The ratio if the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for farming

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Agricultural density

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The number of people per unit area of arable land

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Physiological density

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The total amount of people per are of land

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Arithmetic density

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Units of learned behavior

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Culture traits

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Cultural traits that are functionally interrelated

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Culture complex

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The set of cultural regions showing related cultural complexs and landscapes

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Culture realm

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When acceptance of information about an innovation spreads through a society

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Expansion diffusion

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When movement of dispersal is either up or down through a system of classes or centers

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography to argue that the general laws thought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences geography was there for the study of how the physical environment caused human activities

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Environmental determinition

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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 for many alternatives

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Possiblism

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