Chapter 1: Human Geography

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The space within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity

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Activity space

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The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place

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Accessibility

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The degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places

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Connectivity

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The spread of a disease, an innovation, or cultural rains through direct contact with another person or another place

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Contagious diffusion

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The belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels

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Cultural determinism

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Also called nature-society geography, the study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments in which they live

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Cultural ecology

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The human modified natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society

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Cultural landscape

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Spreading of something widely

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Diffusion

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The view that the physical environment sets limits on human social development

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Environmental determinism

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A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time

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Epidemic

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The spread of ideas, innovations, fashion, or other phenomena to surrounding areas through contact and exchange

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Expansion diffusion

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Definition of regions based on common themes such as similarities in language, climate, land use, etc.

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Formal region

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Definition of regions based on common interaction (or function), for example, a boundary line drawn around the circulation of a particular newspaper

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Functional region

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A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data

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Geographic Information System (GIS)

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The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact

This process transcends state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and states

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Globalization

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A type of diffusion in which something is transmitted between places because of a physical or cultural community between those places

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Hierarchical diffusion

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Branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures

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Morphology

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(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world

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Pandemic

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A repeated design

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Pattern

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The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions

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Possibilism

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The position of a place relative to the places around it

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Relative location

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The diffusion of ideas, innovations, behaviors, and so on from one place to another through migration

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Relocation diffusion

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The succeeding stages of human inhabitation over time on one site

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Sequence occupation

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The absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics

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Site

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The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system; a places spatial context

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Situation

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A continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied

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Space

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The arrangement of a phenomenon across the Earth’s surface and a graphical display of such an arrangement is an important tool in geographical amd environmental statistics

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Spatial distribution

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

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Stimulus diffusion

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An area defined by local, ordinary folks subjective perceptions reflecting their feelings and images about key place characteristics

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Vernacular region