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Fieldwork

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The study of phenomenon by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places

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Human Geography

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One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities and landscapes

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Physical Geography

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the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and loccation of earth’s natural phenomenon such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography

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Globalization

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The expansion of economic, political, , and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales

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Spatial

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Pertaining to space on the Earth’s surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic

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Spatial Distribution

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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space

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Medical Geography

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The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, medical geography looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.

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Pandemics

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An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide

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Epidemics

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regional outbreak of a disease

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Spatial Perspective

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observing variation sin geographic phenomena across space

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Five Themes

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  • location
  • human-environment
  • region
  • place
  • movement
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Location

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The geographical situation of people and things

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Location Theory

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A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. The agricultural location theory contained in the von Thünen model is a leading example

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Human Environment Interactions

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Reciprocal relationship between humans and the environment

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Region

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an area on the earth’s surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon

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Place

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uniqueness of a location

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Sense of Place

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state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning an demotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with certain character

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Perception of Place

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Belief or :understanding” about a place developed through books, movies, stories, or pictures

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Movement

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the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet

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Spatial Interaction

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the degree of flow of people, ideas, and goods among places.

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Distance

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Measurement of the physical space between two places

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Accessibility

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

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Connectivity

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connectedness of a node in the world economy to other nodes along networks

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Landscape

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the overall appearance of an area. Most landscapes are comprised of a combination of natural and human-induced influences

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Cultural Landscape
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants
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Sequent Occupancy
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
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Cartography
The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns
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Reference Maps
maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude
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Thematic Maps
maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon
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Absolute Location
The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds (coordinates)
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Mental Maps
Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
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Activity Spaces
The space within which daily activities occurs
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Terra Incognita
areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker
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Generalized Maps
helps us see general trends, but not all cases of a phenomenon
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Remote Sensing
a method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (eg. satellites) that are physically distant from the area or objectivity of study
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Geographic Information Systems
a collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
satellite based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
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Geocatching
a hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the internet by other geocatchers
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Relative Location
The regional position or situation of. a place relative to the position of other places. Distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect relative location
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Rescale
Involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative (eg. the use of internet to generate interest on a national or global scale for a local position or initiative)
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Formal Region
a type of region marked by a certain d degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region
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Functional Region
a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it
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Perceptual Region
a region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically determined demarcated entity. eg. “ the south “
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Culture
the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. - Anthropologist Ralph Linton
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Culture Trait
a single element of a normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban
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Culture Conplex
a related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
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Cultural Hearth
heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin, of a major culture
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Independent Invention
the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other
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Diffusion
the spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture element or some other phenomenon
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Time-Distance Decay
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point or origin or source
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Cultural Barriers
prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas, or practices unacceptable or unadaptable in that particular culture
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Expansion Diffusion
The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination
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Hierarchical Diffusion
a form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. an urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas, with geographic distance a less important influence
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Contagious Diffusion
the distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person — analogous to the communication of contagious illnesses
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Stimulus Diffusion
a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place
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Relocation Diffusion
sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones
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Geographic Concepts
ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions
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Environmental Determinism
the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over aspects of human life “ environmentalism “
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Possibilism
- response to determinism human decision making is the crucial factor in cultural development, not the environment. this idea is constrained by the limits of human choice
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Cultural Ecology
the multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment
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Political Ecology
an approach to studying nature society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated
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latitude
horizantal
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longitude
vertical
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absolute location
exact coordinates
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relative location
where you are close to
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international date line
An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.
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meridian
An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.
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polder
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
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prime meridian
The meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
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principle meridian
A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the U.S.
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relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
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site
the physical character of a place
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situation
the location of a place relative to other places
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space-time compression
The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems
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stimulus diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
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vernacular region
An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity (perceptual region)

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