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| 15014337873 | region | an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features | 0 | |
| 15014337874 | scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole | 1 | |
| 15014337875 | space | The physical gap or interval between two objects | 2 | |
| 15014337876 | connection | Relationship among people and objects across the barrier of space | 3 | |
| 15014337877 | map | A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it. | 4 | |
| 15014337878 | Cartography | science or art of making maps | 5 | |
| 15014337879 | Mental Map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. | 6 | |
| 15014337880 | Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | 7 | |
| 15014337881 | Topynom | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 8 | |
| 15014337882 | site | The physical features of a place | 9 | |
| 15014337883 | situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 10 | |
| 15014337884 | cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape | 11 | |
| 15014337885 | Formal Region (Uniform Region) | An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics | 12 | |
| 15014337886 | Functional Region (nodal region) | An area organized around a node or focal point | 13 | |
| 15014337887 | vernacular region (perceptual region) | an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity | 14 | |
| 15014337888 | Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 15 | |
| 15014337889 | Globilization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. | 16 | |
| 15014337890 | Transnational Corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | 17 | |
| 15014337891 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | 18 | |
| 15014337892 | Assimilation | When cultures change their ways to match other cultures | 19 | |
| 15014337893 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate | 20 | |
| 15014337894 | Aculturation | when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture | 21 | |
| 15014337895 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 22 | |
| 15014337896 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | 23 | |
| 15014337897 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 24 | |
| 15014337898 | Heirarchical Diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places | 25 | |
| 15014337899 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | 26 | |
| 15014337900 | Distance Decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | 27 | |
| 15014337901 | space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems | 28 | |
| 15014337902 | resource | something useful to people | 29 | |
| 15014337903 | Sustainability | The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained | 30 | |
| 15014337904 | environmental determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions. | 31 | |
| 15014337905 | Possiblism | 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. | 32 |
