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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
Absolute Location
The extent of a features spread over a given area
Concentration
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Contagious Diffusion
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area
Cultural Landscape
The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
Density
The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance Decay
The arrangement of something across the Earth’s surface
Distribution
A nineteenth and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities
Environmental Determinism
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in additive process
Expansion Diffusion
An area in which most people share in one or more distinctive characteristics
Formal Region
An area organized around a node or focal point
Functional Region
A computer system that captures, stores, queries, and displays geographic data
Geographic Information System
Identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates
Geotagging
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
A place from which an innovation originates
Hearth
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
Hierarchical Diffusion
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south
Latitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of Meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian
Longitude
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
Possibilism
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 dominion
Post Structuralist Geography
An area distinguished by one or more distinctive characteristics
Region
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
Relocation Diffusion
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole
Scale
The physical character of a place
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