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AP Human Geo

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Geography   show
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Human Geography   show
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show Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders.  
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show Observations researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences.  
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Patterns   show
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Physical Geography   show
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Spatial distribution   show
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show An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide.  
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Epidemic   show
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Spatial perspective   show
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show Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world spatially.  
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Location   show
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Absolute location   show
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show The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute.  
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Location theory   show
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show Reciprocal relationship between humans and environment (one of the five themes of geography).  
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Environmental determinism   show
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show Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates.  
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Possibilism   show
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Carrying capacity   show
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Cultural Ecology   show
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Political Ecology   show
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Region   show
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Formal Region   show
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Cultural traits   show
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Functional Region   show
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show Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network.  
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Perceptual/Vernacular Region   show
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Place   show
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show Infusing a place with meaning as a result of experiences in a place.  
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show How a place is envisioned.  
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Movement   show
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Diffusion   show
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show Degree of connectedness or contact among people or places.  
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Distance   show
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show Ease of flow between two places.  
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show Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.  
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show The spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth across space without the aid of people moving.  
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show Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on proximity. Specific type of expansion diffusion.  
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Hierarchical Diffusion   show
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show A process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait.  
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show Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them.  
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show The visible human imprint on the landscape.  
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show Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of successive societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape.  
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Scale   show
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Rescale   show
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show The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act.  
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Cartography   show
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Reference maps   show
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Thematic maps   show
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Global Positioning System (GPS)   show
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show Maps of an area made from memory or experience by individuals or groups (also known as cognitive maps).  
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show Places within the rounds of daily activity.  
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Terra Incognita   show
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show A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g., satellites) that are physically distant from the area of study.  
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show A system of computer hardware and software designed to show, analyze, and represent geographic data (data that have locations).  
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show Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people.  
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show A group of interrelated cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.  
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