Key Term Quiz
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| 199538178 | Fieldwork | Going out in the field and seeing what people are doing and how people's actions and reactions vary across space | |
| 199538179 | Globalization | A set of procedures that are increasing interactions without regard to country boarders | |
| 199538180 | Physical Geography | The study of the physical phenomena on Earth | |
| 199538181 | Spatial | Space on Earth's surface | |
| 199538182 | Spatial Distribution | Physical location of geographic phenomena across space | |
| 199538183 | Pattern | The design on a spatial distribution | |
| 199538184 | Medical Geography | The study of health and disease from a geographic perspective | |
| 199538185 | Pandemics | A worldwide outbreak of disease | |
| 199538186 | Epidemic | A regional outbreak of disease | |
| 199538187 | Absolute Location | Exact | |
| 199538188 | Relatative Location | General | |
| 199538189 | Human-Environment | Things built by man that change the environment and vise verca | |
| 199538190 | Regions | Break things down to make it easier to understand | |
| 199538191 | Place | Your idea of what you learned about a particular place, your experiences and emotions | |
| 199538192 | Movement | People migrating from one place to another | |
| 199538193 | Spatial Interaction | The interconnectedness between places | |
| 199538194 | Cultural Landscape | The visible human impact on the landscape | |
| 199538195 | Sequent Occupance | Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflect years of differing human activity | |
| 199538196 | Reference Map | Shows locations of places and geographic features (absolute locations) | |
| 199538197 | Thermatic Map | Tell a story about the degree of an attribute, the pattern of it's distirbution, or it's movement (relative locations) | |
| 199538198 | Mental Map | Maps we carry in our minds | |
| 199538199 | Activity Spaces | Places we travel to routinely | |
| 199538200 | Geographic Information Systems | LAYERS! | |
| 199538201 | Remote Sensing | A method of collecting date by far away instruments | |
| 199538202 | Spatial Perspective | Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space | |
| 199538203 | Location Theory | A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economical activity | |
| 199538204 | Carography | The art and science of making maps | |
| 199538205 | Rescale | Players at other scales generating support for a position | |
| 199538206 | Scale | Territoral extent of something | |
| 199538207 | Formal Region | Commonatliy between cultures | |
| 199538208 | Functional Region | A set of social, political, or economic activities that occur within it | |
| 199538209 | Perceptual Region | Idea's in our mind the define an area of "sameness" or "connectedness" | |
| 199538210 | Culture | A way of life | |
| 199538211 | Diffusion | Process of the spread of an idea from it's hearth to other areas | |
| 199538212 | Expanion Diffusion | Idea spreads outward from the hearth | |
| 199538213 | Contagious Diffusion | Spread adjancently | |
| 199538214 | Hieracrchial Diffusion | Spreads to the most linked people or places first | |
| 199538215 | Stimulus Diffusion | Idea promotes a local experiment or change in the way people do | |
| 199538216 | Relocational Diffusion | Movement of individuals who carry an idea with them to a new land | |
| 199538217 | Culture Complex | Related set of cultural traits | |
| 199538218 | Culture Trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture | |
| 199538219 | Cultural Hearth | Origin on a major culture | |
| 199538220 | Time-Distance Delay | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from it's point of origin | |
| 199538221 | Cultural Barrier | Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain ideas unacceptable in that particular culture | |
| 199538222 | Environmental Deterination | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life | |
| 199538223 | Isotherms | Line on the map connecting points of equal temperature values | |
| 199538224 | Cultural Ecology | The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment | |
| 199538225 | Political Ecology | An approach to studying nature |
