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Unit 1 Recap Flashcards

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1
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What is the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape?

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Sequent Occupance

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What is the fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group?

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Cultural Landscape

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What is the total number of people divided by the total land area?

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Arithmetic Density

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What is the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture?

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Physiological Density

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What is the region from which innovative ideas originate?

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Hearth

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What is the process of spread of a feature or trrend from one place to another

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Diffusion

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What is the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another?

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Relocation Diffusion

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What is the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process?

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Expansion DIffusion

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What is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places?

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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What is the rapid widespread diffusion of a characterisitic throughout the population?

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Contagious Diffusion

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What is the spread of an underlying principle, even though the characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse?

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Stimulus Diffusion

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What is the exact measurement of physical space between two places?

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Absolute distance

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What is the approximate distance of the physical space between two places?

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Relative distance

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What is the arrangement of something across the Earth’s surface?

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Distribution

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What is a 19th and early 20th century approach to study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in physical sciences and geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

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Environmental Determinism

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What is the position on earth’s surface using a coordinate system of latitude and longitude?

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Absolute location

17
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What is the position on earth’s surface relative to other features?

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Relative location

18
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What is the physical chracter of a place, what is found at the location and why it is significant?

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Site

19
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What is the location of a place relative to other places?

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Situation

20
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What is the reduction in tiem it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as result of improved communication and transportation systems?

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Space-time compression

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What is based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome?

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Friction of distance

22
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What is the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin?

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Distance of Decay

23
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What was defined by Manuel Castells as a set of interconnected nodes without a center?

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Networks

24
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What is the relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space?

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Connectivity

25
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What is the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations?

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Accessibility

26
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What refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects?

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Space

27
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What is the physical location of geographic phenomena across space?

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Spatial distribution

28
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What is the estimatation of determination of extent

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Size

29
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What is the representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generaliation?

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Scale

30
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What is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics?

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Formal or Uniform Region

31
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What is an area organized around a node or focal point?

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Functional or Nodal Region

32
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What is a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity?

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Vernacular of Perceptual Region

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What is the argument that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the capability to adjust to their environment?

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Possiblism

34
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What is a common property of distribuion in which there are geometric arrangments of space?

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Pattern

35
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What is often referred to as a place’s name?

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Toponym

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World Geography (2 decks)

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