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| 198676776 | Cartography | The making or study of maps or charts. |  |
| 198676777 | Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |  |
| 198676778 | Cultural Ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. |  |
| 198676779 | Culture | A particular society at a particular time and place |  |
| 198676780 | Density | The number of individuals in a certain area |  |
| 198676781 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |  |
| 198676782 | Distance-Decay | The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. |  |
| 198676783 | Distribution | The process of giving/spreading things out into a community or group of people. |  |
| 198676784 | Environmental Determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions |  |
| 198676785 | Equator | An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole |  |
| 198676786 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |  |
| 198676787 | Formal Region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |  |
| 198676788 | Friction of Distance | A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between two places. |  |
| 198676789 | Functional Region | An area organized around a node of focal point. |  |
| 198676790 | GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. (Geographic Info. System) |  |
| 198676791 | GPS | A navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver |  |
| 198676792 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |  |
| 198676793 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate |  |
| 198676794 | International Date Line | The line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered on the 180th meridian. |  |
| 198676795 | Latitude | An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |  |
| 198676796 | 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). |  |
| 198676797 | Mercator projection | A map projection of the earth onto a cylinder |  |
| 198676798 | Possibillism | The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. |  |
| 199378952 | uneven development | the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy. |  |
| 199378953 | vernacular region | The sense of a place. Ex. "home" |  |
| 199378954 | remote sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. |  |
| 199378955 | Robinson Projection | Flattened globe map |  |
| 199378956 | scale | Size or measure according to a scale |  |
| 199378957 | site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) |  |
| 199378958 | situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings |  |
| 199378959 | space-time compression | the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse(send/ship) something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |  |
| 199378960 | spatial analysis | the study of geographic phenomena in terms of their arrangement as points, lines, areas, or surfaces on a map |  |
| 199378961 | 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 |  |
| 199378962 | time zones | region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time |  |
| 199378963 | toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known |  |
| 199378964 | Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude |  |
| 199378965 | projection | a planned undertaking |  |
| 199378966 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |  |
