Cultural Geography chp. 1
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| show | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environmental relationships.
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| show | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or treand throughout a population.
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| Connections | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of somthing over a given area.
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.
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| show | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits tha together constitute the distinct traditions of a group of people.
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| show | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend among people fromn one area to another in a snowballing process.
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| show | A nineteenth-and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.Geography was now the study of how the physical environment casued by humans.
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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| Geographic informatin system (GIS) | show 🗑
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| show | (Or nodal region) An area organized around a node or focal point.
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| show | (Or uniform or homogreneous region) An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics.
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key perosn or node of authority or power to other persons pr places.
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| show | The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0degreese longitude.
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| show | Actions or processes the incolve the entire would and result in making something woldwide in scope.
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| show | The position of anything on Earth's surface.
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| Latitude | show 🗑
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | show 🗑
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| International Date Line | show 🗑
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| Meridian | show 🗑
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| Mental map | show 🗑
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| Map | show 🗑
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| Longitude | show 🗑
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| show | The number of people per unit of area or arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
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| show | A specific point on Earth didtinguished by a particular character.
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| show | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
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| Parallel | show 🗑
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| Principal meridian | show 🗑
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| Prime meridian | show 🗑
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| show | The theory tht the physical environment may set limits on human actions but that people have the ability to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
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| show | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend though bodily movement of people from one place to another.
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| Regional studies (or cultural landscape) | show 🗑
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| Section | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
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| Remote sensing | show 🗑
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| show | The reduction in the time it takes to diffues something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.
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| Space | show 🗑
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| show | The location of a place relative to other places.
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| show | The pysical character of a place.
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| show | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where it headquarters or shareholders are located.
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| show | A square normally 6 miles on a side. The land ordi
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| show | The name given to a portion of earths surface.
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| Stimulus diffusion | show 🗑
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