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7237066354Arable landLand suited for agriculture0
7237066355Arithmetic DensityThe ratio of the number of objects (or people) in a given land area1
7237066356absolute locationThe position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0° to 90° north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0° to 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian passing through Greenwich, England. It can also be expressed as an address.2
7237066357built environmentThe man made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.3
7237066358CartographyThe art and science of mapmaking4
7237066359ClimateThe average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time5
7237066360ConcentrationThe spread of something over a given area (Clustered aka agglomerated? Dispersed aka scattered?)6
7237066361ConservationThe sustainable management of a natural resource7
7237066362Cultural ecologyGeographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships8
7237066363cultural landscapethe visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape9
7237066364CultureThe body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition10
7237066365DensityThe frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area11
7237066366DiffusionThe process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time12
7237066367Distance DecayThe diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin13
7237066368DistributionThe arrange of something across earths surface14
7237066369EcologyThe study of ecosystems15
7237066370environmental determinismA nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities16
7237066371expansion diffusionThe spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.17
7237066372Formal Uniform region(also known as homogeneous region) An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics18
7237066373friction of distanceThis concept is based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. Because of this "friction," spatial interactions will tend to take place more often over shorter distances; quantity of interaction will decline with distance.19
7237066374Functional nodal regionA region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. (Activities focused around a node and spread out from this node)20
7237066375GlobalizationThe intensification of worldwide interconnectedness associated with the increased speed and magnitude of cross-border flows of trade, investment, and finance, and processes of migration, cultural diffusion, and communication21
7237066376HearthThe region from which innovative ideas originate22
7237066377Heirarchical diffusionThe spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places (Subset of Expansion Diffusion)23
7237066378Mental mapa map that a person pictures in his or her mind24

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