7273353202 | sequent occupance | when different groups create distinct cultural landscapes in an area | 0 | |
7273353203 | cultural landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. | 1 | |
7273353204 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | 2 | |
7273353205 | physiological density | the number of people per unit area of arable land | 3 | |
7273353206 | hearth (n.) | the region from which innovative ideas originate | 4 | |
7273353207 | Difussion | movement from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration | 5 | |
7273353208 | relocation diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another | 6 | |
7273353209 | expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process | 7 | |
7273353210 | Hierarchical Diffusion | Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | 8 | |
7273353211 | Contagious Diffusion | the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population | 9 | |
7273353212 | Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | 10 | |
7273353213 | absolute distance | Exact measurement of the physical space between two places. | 11 | |
7273353214 | relative distance | Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places. | 12 | |
7273353215 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | 13 | |
7273353216 | environmental determinism | the concept that the environment determines what an individual is. | 14 | |
7273353217 | absolute location | the precise point where a place is located on Earth | 15 | |
7273353218 | relative location | The position of a place in relation to another place | 16 | |
7273353219 | site | The physical character of a place | 17 | |
7273353220 | Situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 18 | |
7273353221 | Space time compression | Reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place | 19 | |
7273353222 | friction of distance | Increase in time and cost that comes with increasing distance | 20 | |
7273353223 | Distance Decay | decline of activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin | 21 | |
7273353224 | Networks | Sets of informal and formal social ties that link people to each other. | 22 | |
7273353225 | Connectivity | Connectedness of a node in the world economy to other nodes along networks | 23 | |
7273353226 | accessability | the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations | 24 | |
7273353227 | space | refers to the physical gap or interval between two objecrs | 25 | |
7273353228 | Spatial Distribution | Physical location of geographic phenomena across space. | 26 | |
7273353229 | size | Is the estimation or determination of extent | 27 | |
7273353230 | scale | Representation of real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization | 28 | |
7273353231 | formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics | 29 | |
7273353232 | Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point | 30 | |
7273353233 | vernacular region | an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity | 31 | |
7273353234 | Possibilism | Environment influences, but does not control, human events | 32 | |
7273353235 | pattern | The design of spatial distribution. | 33 | |
7273353236 | Toponym | often referred to as a place name | 34 | |
7273353237 | gps | Global Positioning System | 35 | |
7273353238 | gis | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | 36 |
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