Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards by Rebecca Ramirez

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Regional outbreak of disease

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Epidemic

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Worldwide outbreak of disease

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Pandemic

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How people use their space

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Spatial perspective

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Layering of culture on a society

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Sequent occupance

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Space of daily activity

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Activity spaces

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Unknown territory

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Terra incognita

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World digital mapping

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GIS

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Device that shows your exact position

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GPS

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Exact place on earth

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Absolute location

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Location in relation to another location

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Relative location

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drawing to a place

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Centrality

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Putting the earth in proportions

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Scale

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Map in your head

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Mental maps

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Region, sphere, or domain

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Realm

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An area with commonality

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Regions

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A region that has common cultural elements

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Cultural region

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Spread of an idea from one culture to another

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Cultural diffusion

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Rapid spread of an idea

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Expansion diffusion

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Diffusion spread like an illness

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Contagious diffusion

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An idea goes from power place to power place

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Hierarchical diffusion

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Spread an idea and adapt it

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Stimulus diffusion

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Move your idea with you

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Relocation diffusion

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When you leave, you take your idea with you, and it goes away from where you left

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Migrant diffusion

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Defined by the geographer

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Formal regions

Region defined by activities

Functional region

Region by how you see it

Perceptual region

Feeling of being at home

Regional identity

Cultural adaptation to an environment

Cultural ecology

Surrounding conditions or influences

Environmental

When the environment determines your choices

Determinism

Social conditions determine your choices

Possibilism

The farther away you are, the least likely it is to affect you

Distance decay