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| Geography | show 🗑
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| show | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human phenomena, including population, culture, activities, and landscapes.
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| show | Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country boarders.
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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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| show | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of physical phenomena, including climate, environmental hazards, weather systems, animals, and topography.
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| Spatial distribution | show 🗑
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| show | An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide.
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| show | Widespread, rapid diffusion of disease among a people in a particular location or region at a particular time.
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| show | Looking at where things occur, why they occur where they do, and how places are interconnected.
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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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| show | Precise location of a place, usually defined by latitude and longitude.
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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 of place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates.
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| show | Theory in geography that humans, not environment, shape culture.
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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 context of political, economic, and historical conditions operating at multiple scales.
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| show | Area of Earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual commonality that makes it different from regions around it (one of the five themes of geography).
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| show | Area of land with common cultural or physical traits.
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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.
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| Place | show 🗑
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| Perception of Place | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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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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| Contagious Diffusion | show 🗑
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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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| Cultural landscape | show 🗑
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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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| show | Geographical scope (local, national, or global) in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon.
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| Rescale | show 🗑
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| Context | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| show | Maps showing absolute location of places and geographic features.
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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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| show | Areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker.
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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 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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