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The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole

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scale

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The physical gap or interval between two objects

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space

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The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

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connection

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A specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic

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place

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An area distinguished by one or more distinctive characteristics.

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region

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Description of the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude.

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absolute location

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The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct cultural features

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acculturation

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The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group

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assimilation

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An approach to human geography that emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space

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behavioral geography

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The extent of a feature’s spread over a given area

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concentration

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A map in which the projection and scale are distorted in order to convey the information of a variable

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cartogram

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A map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the variable

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choropleth map

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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contagious diffusion

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A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships

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cultural ecology

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The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people

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culture

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combination of cultural, economic, and physical features

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cultural landscape

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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area

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density

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The process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time

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diffusion

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The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

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distance decay

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The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface

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distribution

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A map that depicts data that consists of discrete observations. Each dot represents a predetermined number of observations, which could be one or many

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dot distribution map

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physical environment caused human activities/social development

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environmental determinism

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physical environment may limit human actions, but humans have the ability to adjust to their environments

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possibilism

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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process

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expansion diffusion

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An region in which most people share in one or more distinctive characteristics

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formal/uniform region

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An area organized around a node or focal point

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functional/nodal region

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A computer system that captures, stores, queries, and displays geographic data

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geographic information system

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Analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies

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geographic information science (GIScience)

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Identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates

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geotagging

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Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

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globalization

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A map that displays symbols that change in size according to the value of the variable

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graduated symbol map

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A place from which an innovation originates

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hearth

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The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places

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hierarchical diffusion

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An approach to human geography that emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings

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humanistic geography

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A map that connects places of a particular value by lines

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isoline map

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the position of anything on earth’s surface

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location

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0°)

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latitude

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°)

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longitude

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A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth’s surface or a portion of it

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map

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The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth’s surface

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map scale

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A map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by a mapping service

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mashup

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An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles

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meridian

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A chain of communication that connects places

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network

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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians

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parallel

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The meridian, designated as 0° longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England

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prime meridian

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The science of taking measurements of Earth’s surface from photographs

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photogrammetry

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The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

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relocation diffusion

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Land that the Dutch have created by draining water from an area

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polder

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Geographic approach that examines how the powerful in a society dominate, or seek to control, less powerful groups, how the dominated groups occupy space, and confrontations that result from the domination

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postructuralist geography

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A system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map

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projection

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The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods

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remote sensing

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The location of a place relative to another place

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situation/relative location

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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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space time compression

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The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature

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spatial association

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The spread of an underlying principle

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stimulus diffusion

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The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature

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syncretism

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The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface

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toponym

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An region that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity

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vernacular/perpetual region

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The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy

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uneven development

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