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AP HUMAN GEO

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show The study of people, places, spaces, and the environment.  
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show One of the two divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human ideas and impact including culture,s, activities, and landscapes.  
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Globilization   show
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show The observations that researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes by comparing and contrasting them.  
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Patterns   show
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show One division of geography; the spatial analysis of physical landscape (patterns), such as a riverbank or the crest of a mountain ridge.  
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show Looking at where, why, and how things occur and how places are connected.  
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show Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world from a spatial perspective.  
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show Position on earth using both absolute and relative location (one of the five categories of geography)  
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show Precise location of a place, usually using latitude and longitude to do so.  
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Relative loction   show
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Location theory   show
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Human-environment interactions   show
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Hearth   show
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Possibilism   show
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Carrying capacity   show
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Cultural ecology   show
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show An approach to studying human-environment interactions in the way of political, economic, and historical conditions operating multiple scales.  
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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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Nodes   show
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show Area of land that a person sees as being similar/ (Vernacular: a language used in interactions in a culture)  
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Place   show
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show Including a place with meaning from the experiences in that location.  
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show How a place is envisioned/ seen as.  
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Movement   show
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show spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places.  
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Spatial Interaction   show
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show The amount of space between one point and another.  
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Accesibility   show
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Connectivity   show
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show The spread of an idea from its hearth across the world without people needing to move.  
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Contagious diffuson   show
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Hierarchal diffusion   show
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Stimulus diffusion   show
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show Spread of an idea from people moving and taking the idea with them.  
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show The visual human impact on the landscape.  
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show Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of societies.  
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Scale   show
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show Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers at another scale.  
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Context   show
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Cartography   show
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show Maps showing absolute location of places and geographical features.  
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show A map that tells a story, usually show the degree of one characteristic or the movement of a geographic idea using symbols.  
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show Satellite based system that determines absolute location of places or geographic features.  
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Mental maps   show
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show Places within the rounds of daily activity.  
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show Areas on maps that are not well detailed because they are off limits or they are unknowns.  
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show A method of collecting data or information through the use of technology/ tools that are far away from the area of study.  
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)   show
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show Group belief systems, normalities, or values practiced by people.  
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Culture Complex   show
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show An outbreak of disease that spreads worldwide.  
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Epidemic   show
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Spatial distribution   show
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show Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth.  
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