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| 7112443031 | cartography | the science of making maps |  | 0 |
| 7112443032 | contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |  | 1 |
| 7112443033 | cultural ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. | 2 | |
| 7112443034 | Cartogram | A special kind of map that distorts the shapes and sizes of countries or other political regions to present economic or other kinds of data for comparison. |  | 3 |
| 7112443035 | culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. |  | 4 |
| 7112443036 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area | 5 | |
| 7112443037 | density | A measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume. | 6 | |
| 7112443038 | diffusion | Net movement of a substance, from a region of high concentration of the substance to a low concentration, which does not require energy. | 7 | |
| 7112443039 | distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 8 | |
| 7112443040 | distribution | Determining the best ways for customers to locate,obtain,and use the products and services of an organization. Involves moving the product each step from the deign idea to the consumer. | 9 | |
| 7112443041 | Erastosthenes | This ancient scholar calculated the circumference of the earth, described it as a sphere, and predicted that ships could sail from Greece to India. |  | 10 |
| 7112443042 | enviromental determinism | the view that the natural enviroment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development |  | 11 |
| 7112443043 | Equator | An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole |  | 12 |
| 7112443044 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trand among people from one area to another in an additive process |  | 13 |
| 7112443045 | Formal Region | (or uniform or homogeneous region) an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |  | 14 |
| 7112443046 | Functional Region | (or nodal region) A region organized by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. |  | 15 |
| 7112443047 | GIS | Geographic Information System. The development and analysis of data from Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies. |  | 16 |
| 7112443048 | GPS | Global Positioning System. is a system that determines accurately the precise position of something on earth |  | 17 |
| 7112443049 | Human Geography | The study of the spatial variation in the patterns and processes related to human activity. | 18 | |
| 7112443050 | hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |  | 19 |
| 7112443051 | hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originiate |  | 20 |
| 7112443052 | international date line | A theoretical line following approximately the 180th meridian, the regions to the east of which are counted as being one day earlier in their calendar dates than the regions to the west. |  | 21 |
| 7112443053 | latitude | East-west lines parallel to the equator used to measure distance in degrees north or south of the equator | 22 | |
| 7112443054 | longitude | Distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole). | 23 | |
| 7112443055 | Mercator Projection | A map projection that fairly accurately shows shape and direction, but distorts distance and size of land masses. |  | 24 |
| 7112443056 | Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives |  | 25 |
| 7112443057 | Prime Meridian | Divides the world into the eastern and western hemisphere at 0 degrees longitude. |  | 26 |
| 7112443058 | projection | A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map |  | 27 |
| 7112443059 | Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character. | 28 | |
| 7112443060 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend though bodily movement of people from one place to another |  | 29 |
| 7112443061 | remote sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. |  | 30 |
| 7112443062 | Robinson Projection | A projection that maintains overall shapes and relative positions without extreme distortion. Most classrooms use this projection. |  | 31 |
| 7112443063 | scale | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. |  | 32 |
| 7112443064 | site | The physical character of a place | 33 | |
| 7112443065 | situation | the location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places. |  | 34 |
| 7112443066 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects. | 35 | |
| 7112443067 | space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |  | 36 |
| 7112443068 | spatial analysis | Examining geographic patterns to identify relationships; Thinking necessary to answer questions like: Why is what where? What are the patterns? |  | 37 |
| 7112443069 | Stimulus Diffusion | a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place |  | 38 |
| 7112443070 | time zones | 24 hour zones that 1,000 miles apart from the other, each one is an hour before or after the one next to it, helps to differentiate between the different times from one point on the Earth to another point. |  | 39 |
| 7112443071 | Toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known |  | 40 |
| 7112443072 | Uneven Development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. |  | 41 |
| 7112443073 | Vernacular Region | (perceptual region) A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. |  | 42 |
| 7112443074 | Chloropleth Map | A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area. |  | 43 |
| 7112443075 | Dot Map | A map that uses dots to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents,or births. | 44 | |
| 7112443076 | Isoline Map | Use lines to connect points of equal value, such as rainfall, or elevation. Along each line the rainfall or elevation would be the same; LINES |  | 45 |
| 7112443077 | Mental Map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. |  | 46 |
| 7112443078 | Regionalization | The process by which specific region acquire characteristics that differentiate them from others within the same country. | 47 | |
| 7112443079 | Peters Projection | An equal-area projection purposely centered on Africa in an attempt to treat all regions of Earth equally. |  | 48 |
