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Vocabulary Terms Test

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cultural ecology
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distance-decay
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hearth
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toponym
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functional (or nodal) region
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contagious diffusion
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possibilism
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Geographic Information System (GIS)
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remote sensing
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uneven development
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Robinson projection
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
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Prime Meridian
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environmental determinism
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expansion diffusion
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cartography
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relocation diffusion
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diffusion
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projection
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culture
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the process or spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
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the region from which innovative ideas originate
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the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
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the theory that the physical environment causes human activities
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the meridian, designated as 0 degrees longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England
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the science of making maps
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the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
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the name given to a portion of Earth's surface
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a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
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an area organized around a node or focal point
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the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
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the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
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the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
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the system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map
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the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
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this map was designed to show land areas much the way they really look. The outlines of the continents appear much as they do on a globe, but the sizes of the continents are a little smaller than they appear on the globe.
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the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together consitute a group of people's distinct tradition
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the aquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite or other long-distance methods
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a system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers
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geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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the location of a place relative to another place
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(perceptual region) an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
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this map shows shapes fairly accurately, but not size or distance. It exaggerates land near the poles but lets navigators plot a straight course between any two points
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the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0 degrees)
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an arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (towards America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day.
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the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distances east and west of the prime meridian (0 degrees)
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fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
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the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
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the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transportation systems
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actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

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