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| 14730491134 | absolute location | Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | 0 | |
| 14730491135 | Cartography | The science of making maps | 1 | |
| 14730491136 | clustered | Gathered closely together in a group | 2 | |
| 14730491137 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 3 | |
| 14730491138 | GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | 4 | |
| 14730491139 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | 5 | |
| 14730491140 | Culture ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. | 6 | |
| 14730491141 | Hierarchical Diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places | 7 | |
| 14730491142 | GPS | Global Positioning System | 8 | |
| 14730491143 | remote sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | 9 | |
| 14730491144 | Gravity Model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. | 10 | |
| 14730491145 | Robinson Projection | Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each. | 11 | |
| 14730491146 | scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole | 12 | |
| 14730491147 | site | The physical character of a place | 13 | |
| 14730491148 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate | 14 | |
| 14730491149 | Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 15 | |
| 14730491150 | situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 16 | |
| 14730491151 | Latitude | Distance north or south of the equator | 17 | |
| 14730491152 | Density | mass/volume | 18 | |
| 14730491153 | Diffusion | Movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. | 19 | |
| 14730491154 | Longitude | Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees | 20 | |
| 14730491155 | time-space compression | A term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity. | 21 | |
| 14730491156 | spatial analysis | the study of geographic phenomena in terms of their arrangement as points, lines, areas, or surfaces on a map | 22 | |
| 14730491157 | Mercator Projection | a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder | 23 | |
| 14730491158 | dispersed | scattered, spread, broken up | 24 | |
| 14730491159 | Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 25 | |
| 14730491160 | Possibilism | 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. | 26 | |
| 14730491161 | stimulus discrimination | a differentiation between two similar stimuli when only one of them is consistently associated with the unconditioned stimulus | 27 | |
| 14730491162 | environmental determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions. | 28 | |
| 14730491163 | distrubution | Shipping and transportation, delivery to customers. | 29 | |
| 14730491164 | Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude | 30 | |
| 14730491165 | Sustainability | The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained | 31 | |
| 14730491166 | uneven development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. | 32 | |
| 14730491167 | Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 33 | |
| 14730491168 | Peters Projection | An equal-area projection purposely centered on Africa in an attempt to treat all regions of Earth equally. | 34 | |
| 14730491169 | Equator | 0 degrees latitude | 35 | |
| 14730491170 | Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | 36 | |
| 14730491171 | Regionalism | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot | 37 | |
| 14730491172 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | 38 | |
| 14730491173 | relative location | The position of a place in relation to another place | 39 |
