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Unit 1 Flashcards

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Political Ecology

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Subdivision of human geo., focus on nature of spatial organization of political governance and practice

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Place

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Fourth theme, uniqueness of location

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Possibilism

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Geographic viewpoint, human decisions is big factor in culture development

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Reference Maps

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Show absolute location and geographic features

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Region

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3rd theme, area on earths surface

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Physical geography

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1 of 2 divisions of geo, analysis of natural phenomena

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Perceptual region

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Region that only exists as an idea

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Perception of place

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Belief of place through books, movies, and pictures

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Cultural landscape

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Visible imprint of human activity and culture on landscape

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Relative location

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Relative position of place

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Relocation diffusion

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Items being diffused are transmitted by carrier agents as the leave old areas and go to new ones

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Remote sensing

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Use of instrument to collect data

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Rescale

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Involvement of players at other scales to support a position

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Sense of place

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Remember a place and know it

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Sequent occupance

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Societies leave cultural imprint on a place

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Spatial

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Space in earths surface

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Spatial distribution

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Location of geographic phenomena across space

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Spatial interaction

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2 regions that satisfy each others demands

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Spatial perspective

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Observing variation in geographic phenomena across space

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Stimulus diffusion

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Cultural adaptation is created because of difffusion

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Thematic maps

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Tells stories

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Urban hierarchy

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Ranking of settlements by size and economic functions

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Time-distance decay

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Decreasing acceptance of idea with increasing time and distance

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Absolute location

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Exact location

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Accessibilitiy

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The ease to reach location

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Activity space

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Space where daily activity occurs

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Cartography

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Art and science of making maps

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Complementarity

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When 2 regions exchange materials and satisfy each others demands

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Connectivity

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Direct linkage between locations

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Contagious diffusion

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Spread of idea innovation from person to person

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Cultural barrier

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Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations

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Cultural diffusion

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Expansion of cultural element

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Cultural ecology

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Multiple interactions and relationships b/w a culture and the natural environment

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Cultural hearth

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Source area, place of origin of major culture

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Distance

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Physical space b/w two places

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Environmental determinism

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Natural environ. Has controlling influence over human life

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Epidemic

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Outbreak of disease

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Expansion diffusion

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Spread of innovation or idea through population

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Fieldwork

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Study of geographic phenomena by obsrving people interactions

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Five themes

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Location, human env. Region, movement, and place

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Formal region

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Type of region marked by certain degree of homogeneity

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Functional region

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Region defined by activities and interactions occurred within it

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Geocaching

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Hunt for a cache

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Geographic concept

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Ways of seeing world spatially

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Geographic information systems

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Collection if computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected

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Gps

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Satellite based system

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Globalization

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

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Hierarchical diffusion

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Idea spreads first among most connected places

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Human geography

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Analysis of humans

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Human environment

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2nd theme

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Independent invention

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Trait of many cultural hearths that developed independent of eachother

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Intervening opportunity

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Presence of nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes attractiveness of sites far away

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Isotherm

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Line in map connecting points of equal temperature values

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Landscape

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Overall appearance of area

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Location

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First theme, situation of people and things

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Location theory

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Explain locational pattern of economic activity and manners

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Medical geo

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Study of health and disease within geo context

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Mental map

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Picture of way space is organized

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Movement

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5th theme, mobility

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Pandemic

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Outbreak of disease worldwide

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Pattern

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Design of spatial distribution

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Culture

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Behavior, practices etc.

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Cultural complex

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Set of cultural traits

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Cultural trait

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Single element of normal practice in culture

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