Chapter 1 - Basic Concepts - vocab
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| show | Composed of nonliving or inorganic
matter.
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| show | The process of changes in
culture that result from the meeting of two groups,
each of which retains distinct culture features.
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| Assimilation | show 🗑
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| show | The thin layer of gases
surrounding Earth.
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| Behavioral geography | show 🗑
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| show | All living organisms on Earth, includ-
ing plants and animals, as well as microorganisms.
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| show | Composed of living organisms.
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| show | The science of making maps.
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| show | The long-term average weather con-
dition at aparticular location.
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| show | The spread of something
over a given area.
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| show | The relationships among people
and objects across the barrier of space.
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| show | The sustainable management
of a natural resource.
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| Contagious diffusion | show 🗑
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| Cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| show | An approach to geog-
raphy that emphasizes the relationships among
social and physical phenomena in a particular
study area.
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| Culture | show 🗑
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| show | The frequency with which some-
thing exists within a given unit of area.
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Distance decay | show 🗑
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| show | The arrangement of something
across Earth’s surface.
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| Ecology | show 🗑
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| Ecosystem | show 🗑
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| show | 19 & 20 century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could
be found in the physical sciences.Geography was
therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
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| Expansion diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | An area in which everyone shares in common one or
more distinctive characteristics.
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| show | An area organized around a node or focal point.
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| show | The development and analysis of data about
Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies.
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| Geographic information system (GIS) | show 🗑
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| show | Identification and storage of a
piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates.
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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| show | Actions or processes that
involve the entire world and result in making
something worldwide in scope.
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| show | The time in
the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or
0° longitude.
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of
authority or power to other persons or places.
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| Humanistic geography | show 🗑
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| show | All of the water on and near
Earth’s surface.
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| show | An arc that for the most part follows 180 ° longitude, When the International Date Line is crossed heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When it is crossed heading west (Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.
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| show | The numbering system used to
indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe
and measuring distance north and south of the
equator (0°).
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| Lithosphere | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| show | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the
prime meridian (0°).
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| Map | show 🗑
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| show | The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth’s surface.
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| Mashup | show 🗑
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| Mental map | show 🗑
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| Meridian | show 🗑
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| Network | show 🗑
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| show | Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed
by humans.
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| show | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
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| show | Community-based mapping, representing local knowledge and information.
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| Place | show 🗑
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| Polder | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| show | The study of
space as the product of ideologies or value systems
of ruling elites.
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| show | The maintenance of resources
in their present condition, with as little human
impact as possible.
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| show | The meridian, designated
as 0° longitude, that passes through the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich, England.
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| show | A system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map.
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The acquisition of data about
Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet
or from other long-distance methods.
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| Renewable resource | show 🗑
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| show | A substance in the environment
that is useful to people, is economically and
technologically feasible to access, and is socially
acceptable to use.
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| show | Generally, the relationship between the
portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a
whole.
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| show | The physical character of a place.
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| show | The location of a place relative to
another place.
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| Space | show 🗑
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| show | The reduction in
the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant
place as a result of improved communications
and transportation systems.
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| Spatial association | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
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| show | The use of Earth’s renewable
and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that
do not constrain resource use in the future.
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| Syncretism | show 🗑
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| Toponym | show 🗑
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| Transnational corporation | show 🗑
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| Uneven development | show 🗑
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| show | An area that people believe exists as
part of their cultural identity.
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| show | Creation and dissemination of geographic
data contributed voluntarily and for
free by individuals.
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