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Geographic Data, Spacial concepts, Human-Environmental interaction

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show data associated with a more humanistic approach to geography, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives  
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show numerical data  
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show a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers  
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show Computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. Such maps are created by organizing LAYERS of information to form a combined image.  
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show The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods  
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Field observation   show
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Place   show
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show The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area  
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Space-time compression   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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show 19th 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  
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Possibilism   show
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show The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.  
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show Materials or substance such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain  
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show Information that can be tied to a specific place. Besides locations of things, such as mountains or roads or boundaries, it includes human actives and traits. Example: How common is poverty in each U.S. County  
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show The task of defining and describing landscape  
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Friction of distance   show
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Built environment   show
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Toponym   show
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show Physical characteristics of a place including landforms, climate and resources  
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show Location of a place relative to another place (Situation describes a places connection to to other places  
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