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AP Human Geography

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Geography   show
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Human Geography   show
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Globalization   show
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show observations researchers make of cultural and physical landscapes observing similarities and differences  
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show description of the spatial distribution of physical or human phenomena (e.g., scattered or concentrated)  
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Physical geography   show
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Spatial distribution   show
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Pandemic   show
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Epidemic   show
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show looking at where things occur, why they occur where they do, and how places are interconnected to each other  
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show mental categories used to analyze the world spatially in an organized way  
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Location   show
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show precise location of a place, usually defined by latitude and longitude  
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show the location of an attribute or place in comparison to another attribute or place  
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show understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with a goal of explaining why certain sites are chosen for production and consumption (e.g. von Thünen model)  
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show reciprocal relationship between humans and environment (another theme of geography)  
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Environmental Determinism   show
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show a place or area when a new innovation, idea, or technology arises  
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Possibilism   show
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show the idea that land can hold a measurable amount of plant and animal life  
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Cultural Ecology   show
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Political Ecology   show
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show area of Earth identified as sharing a formal, function, or perceptual community which makes it distinguishable from regions around it (a theme of geography)  
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Formal Region   show
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Cultural Trait   show
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Functional Region   show
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show connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in and out of the network  
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show area of land that some individual perceives as being similar  
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show uniqueness of a location (another theme of geography)  
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show infusing a place with meaning as a result of experiences in that place  
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show how a place is envisioned  
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show mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth (one of the five themes of geography)  
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Diffusion   show
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Spatial Interaction   show
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Distance   show
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Accessibility   show
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show position of a place or area relative to others in a network  
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Expansion Diffusion   show
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Contagious Diffusion   show
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Hierarchical Diffusion   show
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Stimulus Diffusion   show
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show spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them  
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Cultural Landscape   show
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Sequent Occupance   show
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Scale   show
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show change the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers and gatekeepers at another scale  
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show physical and human geographies shaping the environment, place and space, where 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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show satellite-based system determining the 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 a map that are unknown to the map maker or off limits, resulting in them not being defined well  
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Remote Sensing   show
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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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Cultural Complex   show
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