7369441193 | Geographic Scale | relationship between portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole | 0 | |
7369446650 | Globalization | the process of countries becoming more open to foreign trade and investment | 1 | |
7369464598 | Transnational Corporation | A corporation reaching beyond or transcending national boundaries | 2 | |
7369472478 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects | 3 | |
7369475697 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | 4 | |
7369493415 | Density | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area | 5 | |
7369493416 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate | 6 | |
7369503025 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. | 7 | |
7369507769 | Patterns | Reoccuring arrangements | 8 | |
7369507843 | Connection | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. | 9 | |
7369510188 | Accessibility | the relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place | 10 | |
7369532420 | Spatial Association | the degree to which things are similarly arranged in space | 11 | |
7369545145 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 12 | |
7369551560 | Relocation Diffusion | spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another | 13 | |
7369555258 | Expansion Diffusion | spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process | 14 | |
7369563419 | Hierarchical Diffusion | the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places | 15 | |
7369570394 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 16 | |
7369576056 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | 17 | |
7369580389 | Absolute Distance | Exact measurement of the physical space between two places. | 18 | |
7369594663 | Cognitive Distance | The distance that people perceive to exist in a given situation | 19 | |
7369599809 | Distance Decay | decline of activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin | 20 | |
7369608413 | Space-time Compression | describes the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place | 21 | |
7369614355 | Network | A chain of communication that connects places | 22 | |
7369617911 | Uneven Development | The gap in economic conditions between regions because of globalization of the economy. | 23 |
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