| 7251984955 | Abiotic | Composed of non-living and inorganic matter | 0 | |
| 7251987752 | Atmosphere | A thin layer of gasses surrounding Earth | 1 | |
| 7251990402 | Biosphere | All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms | 2 | |
| 7251994622 | Biotic | Composed of living organisms | 3 | |
| 7251996182 | Cartography | The science of making maps | 4 | |
| 7251998186 | Climate | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location | 5 | |
| 7252003124 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area | 6 | |
| 7252004476 | Connection | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 7 | |
| 7252008812 | Conservation | The sustainable of a natural resource | 8 | |
| 7252012068 | Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population | 9 | |
| 7252016357 | Cultural ecology | A geographic feature that emphasizes human-environment relationships | 10 | |
| 7252019336 | Cultural Landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group | 11 | |
| 7252021832 | Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition | 12 | |
| 7252031000 | Density | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area | 13 | |
| 7252035533 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature of trend from one place to another over time | 14 | |
| 7252038200 | Distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 15 | |
| 7252043416 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface | 16 | |
| 7252132654 | Ecology | The scientific study of ecosystems | 17 | |
| 7252133571 | Ecosystem | A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact | 18 | |
| 7252137461 | Environmental determination | A nineteenth- and early twentieth- 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 | 19 | |
| 7252147772 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process | 20 | |
| 7252153744 | Formal region | An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristic | 21 | |
| 7252156138 | Functional region | An area organized around a node or focal point | 22 | |
| 7252163918 | Geographic Information Science | The development and analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies | 23 | |
| 7252168984 | Geographic Information System | A computer system that stores organizes,analyzes, and displays geographic data | 24 | |
| 7252171867 | Global Positioning System | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers | 25 | |
| 7252182492 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in space | 26 | |
| 7252187538 | Greenwich Mean Time | The time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude | 27 | |
| 7252190233 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate | 28 | |
| 7252193229 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places | 29 | |
| 7252196513 | Housing bubbles | A rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value | 30 | |
| 7252199064 | Hydrosphere | All of the water on and near Earth's surface | 31 | |
| 7252201803 | International Date Line | An arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates n several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day, When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day. | 32 | |
| 7252213279 | Latitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0). | 33 |
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