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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| show | The study of the psychological basis for individual human actions in space.
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| show | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location
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| show | Position close together. Often used interchangeably with "concentration".
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| Complementarity | show 🗑
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| Concentration | show 🗑
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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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| show | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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| Cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| show | An approach to geography 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 something exists within a given unit of area.
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| show | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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| Dispersed * | show 🗑
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| show | The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance
from its origin.
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | An approach to the study of geography which argued that the
general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.
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| Expansion diffusion * | show 🗑
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| Formal region (or uniform region) * | show 🗑
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| show | The inhibiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of forms of interaction. Note: time-space
compression decreases friction of distance.
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| show | An area organized around a node or focal point.
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| Geographic information system (GIS) * | show 🗑
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| Geotagging | show 🗑
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| show | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites,
tracking stations, and receivers.
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| Globalization * | show 🗑
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| Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | show 🗑
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| show | The region from which innovative ideas originate.
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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 | 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 a day. When it is crossed heading west (toward 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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| Location * | show 🗑
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| Longitude | show 🗑
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| Map | show 🗑
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| Map scale | show 🗑
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| show | A map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by a mapping service.
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| show | A representation of a portion of Earth’s surface based on what an individual knows about a place that
contains personal impressions of what is in the place and where the place is located.
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| show | An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.
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| Network | show 🗑
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| Nonrenewable resource | show 🗑
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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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| Participatory GIS (PGIS) | show 🗑
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| show | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area.
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| show | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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| Place * | show 🗑
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| show | Land that the Dutch have created by draining water from an area.
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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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| Prime meridian | show 🗑
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| Projection | show 🗑
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| Region * | show 🗑
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| Relative Location * | show 🗑
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| Relocation diffusion (also known as Migration 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 | How a person feels about a place and why it is important to them.
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| show | The physical character of a place.
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| Situation * | show 🗑
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| Soil depletion * | show 🗑
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| show | The physical gap or interval between two objects.
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| Space–time compression * | show 🗑
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| show | The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature.
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| show | A feature spreading across space.
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| Spatial interaction * | show 🗑
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| Spatial perspective * | show 🗑
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| Stimulus diffusion * | show 🗑
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| Sustainability * | show 🗑
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| show | The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature.
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| show | A map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes, and sometimes the
relationship between them.
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| show | The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface.
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| Transnational corporation * | show 🗑
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| show | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the
globalization of the economy.
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| Volunteered geographic information (VGI) | show 🗑
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| show | Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter.
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| show | The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth.
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| show | All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms.
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| show | Composed of living organisms.
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| Ecology | show 🗑
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| Ecosystem | show 🗑
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| show | All of the water on and near Earth’s surface.
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| show | Earth’s crust and a portion of the upper mantle directly below the crust.
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