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Chapter 1 Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Spatial Distribution

A

Physical location of geographic phenomena across space

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Pandemic

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Worldwide outbreak of disease

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Epidemic

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Regional outbreak of disease

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Spatial Perspective

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Understanding the changes over space

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5
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What are the Five Themes

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Location 
interaction between humans & environment 
Region
Place 
Movement
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Reference Maps

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Focus on accuracy in showing absolute locations (coordinates)

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Thematic Maps

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Tell stories

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Relative Location Maps

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Relations with humans & Physical Location

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Activity spaces

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places we travel routinely during daily activities

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Remote Sensing

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Data collection

Example: Google earth, aircraft

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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Examples of uses: analyzing ‘natural’ disaster, surveying wildlife

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Formal regions

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Marked by similarities in one or more criteria

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Functional Regions

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Defined by activities and interactions (share a purpose)

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perceptual Regions

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Impressions and intellectual constructs in the minds of others and is based on accumulated knowledge

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culture

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Knowledge, attitudes, & habitual behavior patterns shared by members of a society

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Culture complex

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A related set of cultural traits

17
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Expansion Diffusion

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People stay but ideas move

18
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Relocation Diffusion

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People move with ideas (migration)

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Human Geography

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The study of people and places and how we make sense of the world

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