4780532431 | Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriulture | 0 | |
4780556082 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area | 1 | |
4780571155 | Base Line | An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of township in the United States | 2 | |
4787337365 | Cartography | The science of making maps | 3 | |
4787344926 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area | 4 | |
4787743004 | Connection | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 5 | |
4787752970 | Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population | 6 | |
4787799406 | Cultural ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human- environment relationships | 7 | |
4787817799 | Cultural landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group | 8 | |
4788078255 | Cultural | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and materials traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition | 9 | |
4788104836 | Density | The frequency with which something exist within a given unit of area | 10 | |
4788114787 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 11 | |
4788123623 | Distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 12 | |
4791936049 | Distribution | Thee arrangement of something across the Earth's surface | 13 | |
4791960043 | Environmental Determinism | A 19-and early 20 century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general law sought by human geographers could be found in the physical science. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. | 14 | |
4792006010 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process | 15 | |
4802613176 | Formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics | 16 | |
4807522187 | Functional region | An area organized around a node or focal point | 17 | |
4787874761 | Longitude | The numbering systems used to indicate thee location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator | 18 | |
4788064559 | Land of Ordinance of 1785 | A that divided much of the United States into townships to facilitate the sales of land to settlers | 19 | |
4788040355 | Latitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the equator | 20 | |
4807543145 | Geographic information system (GIS) | A computer system that stores, organizes ,analyzes, and displays geographic data. | 21 | |
4792235930 | Global Positioning System (GPS ) | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. | 22 | |
4792214268 | Globalization | Action or processes that involves the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. | 23 | |
4792191475 | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | The time in that zone encompassing the prime meridian or 0 longitude | 24 | |
4787845078 | Location | The position of anything on Earth's surface | 25 | |
4787831465 | Map | A two- dimensional , or flat, representation of Earth's surface or portion of it | 26 | |
4792023272 | International Date Line | An are that the most part follow 180 longitude, although it deviate in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east ( towards America), the clock moves 24 hours, or one whole day. When you go west ( towards Asia ), the calendar moves ahead one day. | 27 | |
4792082585 | Hearth | The region from which innovation ideas originate | 28 | |
4792069154 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places | 29 |
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