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This is Geography

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show area within with everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics  
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functional region/nodal region   show
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show area that people believe is a part of their cultural identify  
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cultural landscape   show
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show body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people  
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show what people care about and what people take care of  
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show the degree to which the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another  
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globalization   show
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show arrangement of a feature in space  
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density   show
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show the extent of a feature's spread over space  
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pattern   show
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show emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about places and give those places symbolic meanings  
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show emphasizes importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space  
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show a biological attribute  
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show a social construct that varies from society to society and across time and that can be changed  
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diffusion   show
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hearth   show
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relocation diffusion   show
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expansion diffusion   show
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hierarchical diffusion   show
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contagious diffusion   show
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show the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse  
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show the theory that the farther away someone is from another, the less likely they are to interact  
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space-time compression   show
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show process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group's  
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acculturation   show
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show combining of elements of 2 groups into a new cultural form  
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resource   show
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show use of earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future  
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ecosystem   show
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show the study of ecosystems  
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cultural ecology   show
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environmental determinism   show
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show the environment sets some limits, but people have the ability to adjust  
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