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Human Geography

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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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Fieldwork   show
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show Description of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon (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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Spatial perspective   show
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Geographic concepts   show
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show Position on Earth, including both absolute location and relative location (one of the five themes of geography).  
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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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Human-environment interactions   show
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show Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth.  
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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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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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show An approach to studying human-environment interactions in the context of political, economic, and historical conditions operating at multiple scales.  
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Region   show
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Formal Region   show
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show A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture.  
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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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show Area of land that an individual perceives as being similar. And that has such strong significance to the people in the area that it becomes the lens through which they see their world and a way people identify themselves.  
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Place   show
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Sense of Place   show
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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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Spatial Interaction   show
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show the measured physical space between places  
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Accessibility   show
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Connectivity   show
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Expansion Diffusion   show
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Contagious Diffusion   show
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show Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion.  
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Stimulus Diffusion   show
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Relocation Diffusion   show
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Cultural landscape   show
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Sequent occupance   show
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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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Mental maps   show
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Activity spaces   show
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Terra Incognita   show
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Remote sensing   show
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)   show
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show Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people.  
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Culture Complex   show
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