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| 4822158856 | Cartography | The science of mapmaking | 0 | |
| 4822162220 | Cultural Landscape | Unifying characteristics that make an area of land unique | 1 | |
| 4822166468 | Sequent Occupance | The notion that, throughout history, successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place | 2 | |
| 4822173214 | Space | Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects | 3 | |
| 4822175383 | Scale | Relationship between the real world object and the representation of that object on the map | 4 | |
| 4822180162 | Projection | Scientifically transferring a 3D location on the Earth's surface into a flat map | 5 | |
| 4822184498 | GIS | Computer application that stores, analyzes, and layers different geographic information | 6 | |
| 4822189193 | Remote Sensing | Using satellites or other long-range methods to acquire information about the Earth's surface | 7 | |
| 4822192412 | GPS | Accurately determines the precise location of something on Earth | 8 | |
| 4822194356 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across the Earth's surface | 9 | |
| 4822196788 | Clustered | Where geographic phenomenon is found close together across the Earth | 10 | |
| 4822200166 | Dispersed | Where geographic phenomenon is found further apart across the Earth | 11 | |
| 4822202359 | Pattern | The geometric arrangement of objects in space | 12 | |
| 4822208257 | Arithmetic Density | People to land | 13 | |
| 4822209198 | Physiology Density | People to farmland | 14 | |
| 4822211808 | Hearth | The region/place from which innovative ideas originate | 15 | |
| 4822214230 | Diffusion | The process of spreading a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 16 | |
| 4822222432 | Relocation Diffusion | The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another | 17 | |
| 4822226325 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process | 18 | |
| 4822230362 | Hierachical Diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons of authority/power to other persons or from large urban centers to smaller cities/places | 19 | |
| 4822233886 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population | 20 | |
| 4822235984 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though the characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse | 21 | |
| 4822241185 | Environmental Determinism | A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the physical environment caused human activities | 22 | |
| 4822247818 | Possibilism | The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment | 23 | |
| 4822252408 | Absolute Location | Position on Earth's surface using the coordinate system of longitude and latitude | 24 | |
| 4822255441 | Relative Location | Position on Earth's surface relative to other features | 25 | |
| 4822257857 | Site | The physical characteristics of a place | 26 | |
| 4822260263 | Situation | The location of a place relative to other places | 27 | |
| 4822261887 | Globalization | A force or process that makes a local concept become a global phenomenon | 28 | |
| 4822264395 | Connectivity | The relationships among people and ideas across the barrier of space | 29 | |
| 4822267471 | Accessibility | The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations | 30 | |
| 4822274020 | Space Time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place | 31 | |
| 4822278225 | Friction of Distance | Based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome | 32 | |
| 4822288286 | Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from it origin | 33 | |
| 4822295451 | Networks | A set of interconnected nodes without a center | 34 | |
| 4822298143 | Formal Region | (Uniform) or homogeneous region is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics | 35 | |
| 4822303790 | Functional Region | (Nodal Region) Area organized around a node or focal point | 36 | |
| 4822307399 | Vernacular Region | (Perceptual Region) Is a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity | 37 | |
| 4822311277 | Toponym | Often referred to as a place's given name on Earth | 38 |
