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| 16822918 | fieldwork | The study of geography by visiting places and observing the people that live there and how they react with the changes there. | 0 | |
| 16822919 | human geography | The study of humans and their cultures, activities, and landscapes | 1 | |
| 16822920 | Globalization | The expansion of economics, political and cultural processes to the point that they beome global in scale and impact. | 2 | |
| 16822921 | physical geography | The spatial analysis of the sturcture of the earth and its features; plants, animals, climate..... | 3 | |
| 16822922 | spatial | having to do with space and earth's surface. Sometimes synonym for geographic. | 4 | |
| 16822923 | spatial distribution | location of geographic phenomena across space. | 5 | |
| 16822924 | pattern | the design of spatial distribution | 6 | |
| 16822925 | medical geography | the study of health and diseases with geographic perspective. | 7 | |
| 16822926 | pandemic | an outbreak of disease that spreads world-wide. | 8 | |
| 16822927 | epidemic | regional outbreak of a disease | 9 | |
| 16822928 | spatial perspective | observing variations in geographic phenomena across space | 10 | |
| 16822929 | five themes | location, human environment, region, place, movement | 11 | |
| 16822930 | location | the geographical situation of people and things. | 12 | |
| 16822931 | location theory | a logical attempt to explore the location pattern of an economic activity | 13 | |
| 16822932 | human environment | reciprocal relationship between humans and environmnet | 14 | |
| 16822933 | region | an area on the earht's surface that is marked | 15 | |
| 16822934 | place | uniqueness of a location | 16 | |
| 16822935 | sense of place | state of mind derived through the infusion of a place maybe by events that occured there. | 17 | |
| 16822936 | perception of place | beliefs or understandings of a place through books or movies | 18 | |
| 16822937 | movement | the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the world | 19 | |
| 16822938 | spatial interactions | interactions in earth's space | 20 | |
| 16822939 | distance | measurement of space between two places | 21 | |
| 16822940 | assessability | the degree of ease at which it is possible to reach a certain location | 22 | |
| 16822941 | connectivity | the degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network | 23 | |
| 16822942 | landscape | the overall appearance of an area | 24 | |
| 16822943 | cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | 25 | |
| 16822944 | sequent occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place | 26 | |
| 16822945 | cartography | the art and science of making maps | 27 | |
| 16822946 | reference maps | maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features | 28 | |
| 16822947 | thematic maps | maps that tell stories | 29 | |
| 16822948 | absolue location | a place expressed in degrees, longitude, latitude, north or south, the equator, and north, south, east, west | 30 | |
| 16822949 | global positioning system (gps) | satelite-based system that tells you where you are | 31 | |
| 16822950 | geocaching | a hunt for a cache, gps coordinates which are placed on the internet by another cache | 32 | |
| 16822951 | relative location | the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | 33 | |
| 16822952 | mental map | a map in your head | 34 | |
| 16822953 | activity space | the space where everyday activities occur | 35 | |
| 16822954 | remote sensing | collecting data through instruments that are distant from the area of object of study | 36 | |
| 16822955 | geographic information system (gis) | a collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected | 37 | |
| 16822956 | rescale | players at other scales support other positions | 38 | |
| 16822957 | formal region | type of region marked by a certain homogenity is one or more phenomena | 39 | |
| 16822958 | functional region | a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it | 40 | |
| 16822959 | perceptional region | a region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity | 41 | |
| 16822960 | culture | the way you live and the people around you | 42 | |
| 16822961 | cutlural trait | a single attribute of a culture | 43 | |
| 16822962 | cultural complex | many different cultures many different traits | 44 | |
| 16822963 | independent invention | a trait that many cultural hearths that develop independent of each other | 45 | |
| 16822964 | culture diffusion | the process of discemination, teh spread of an idea or innovation from its source area to other places | 46 | |
| 16822965 | time-distance decay | the combination of time and distance | 47 | |
| 16822966 | cultural barriers | things in the culture that stop or slow down the research | 48 | |
| 16822967 | expansion diffusion | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population and the numbers of those influenced rapidly increase | 49 | |
| 16822968 | contagious diffusion | the distance controls spreading of an illness through a local population | 50 | |
| 16822969 | hierarchical diffusion | an idea innovation spreads by first among the most connected places or peoples | 51 | |
| 16822970 | stimulus diffusion | a cultural adaptation is cheated as a result fo the introduction of a cultural trait from another place | 52 | |
| 16822971 | relocation diffusion | teh regional positional or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | 53 | |
| 16822972 | geographic concept | ways of seeing the world spatically that are used by geographers in answering research questions | 54 | |
| 16822973 | environmental determinism | teh view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development | 55 | |
| 16822974 | isotherm | line on a map connecting points equal temperature values | 56 | |
| 16822975 | possibilism | geographic viewpoint - a response to determinism that holds the human decision making | 57 | |
| 16822976 | cultural ecology | an area of inquiry concened with culture as a system of adaptation to environment | 58 | |
| 16822977 | population density | a mearurement of the number of people per given unit of land | 59 | |
| 16822978 | arithmetic population density | the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area | 60 | |
| 16822979 | physiological population density | the number of people per unit of area of arable land | 61 | |
| 16822980 | population distribution | description of locations on teh earth's surface where populations live | 62 | |
| 16822981 | dot map | maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon such as population | 63 | |
| 16822982 | megalopolis | large cluster of supercities | 64 | |
| 16822983 | census | a periodic and official count of coutries population | 65 | |
| 16822984 | doubling time | the time it takes for a population to double in size | 66 | |
| 16822985 | population explosion | the rapid growth of teh world's human population during the past century | 67 | |
| 16822986 | natural increase | increase only with births and deaths | 68 | |
| 16822987 | crude birth rate | the number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population | 69 | |
| 16822988 | crude death rate | teh number of deaths | 70 | |
| 16822989 | demographic transition | multistage model based on western Europe's experience of change in population growth exhibited by the countries undergoing industrialization | 71 | |
| 16822990 | stationary population level | the level at which a national population ceases to grow | 72 | |
| 16822991 | population composition | structure of a population in terms of age, sex and other properties, education | 73 | |
| 16822992 | population pyramids | visual representation of the age and sex composition of a population graph | 74 | |
| 16822993 | infant mortality rate (IMR) | a figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in the population | 75 | |
| 16822994 | child mortality rate | the number of children that die within their first to fifth years in a population | 76 | |
| 16822995 | life expectancy | how long an average person lives | 77 | |
| 16822996 | AIDS (aquired immune deficiency syndrome) | Immune system disease caused by the human immunodifficiency virus (HIV) | 78 | |
| 16822997 | chronic (degenerative) diseases | generally long-lasting afflications now more common because of higher life expectations | 79 | |
| 16822998 | expansive population policies | government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth | 80 | |
| 16822999 | eugenic population policies | government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others | 81 | |
| 16823000 | restrictive population policies | government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase | 82 | |
| 16823001 | remittance | money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countires | 83 | |
| 16823002 | cyclic movements | shorter periods away from home (commuting). | 84 | |
| 16823003 | activity space | a daily routine where someone goes through a regular sequence of short moves within a local area | 85 | |
| 16823004 | nomadism | movement among a definite set of places. Ex of cyclic movement. | 86 | |
| 16823005 | periodic movements | tempory, recurrent relocation. Example is colodge, military | 87 | |
| 16823006 | migrant labor | people who cross national borders for jobs. Example: periodic movement | 88 | |
| 16823007 | transhumance | a seasonal periodic movement of pastorarists and their livestock between highland and lowland | 89 | |
| 16823008 | military service | up to 10 million people moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years | 90 | |
| 16823009 | migration | a change in residence intended to be permanent | 91 | |
| 16823010 | international migration | human movement involving movement across international boundaries | 92 | |
| 16823011 | internal migration | human movement within a nation-state, such as going westward and southward movements in the US | 93 | |
| 16823012 | forced migration | human migration flows in which the movers have not choice but to relocate | 94 | |
| 16823013 | voluntary migration | movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced. | 95 | |
| 16823014 | laws of migration | developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, 5 laws that predict the flow of migrants | 96 | |
| 16823015 | gravity model | a predication of the interaction of places, population size, distance between them | 97 | |
| 16823016 | push factors | negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their adobe and migrate to a new location | 98 | |
| 16823017 | pull factors | positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attact people to new locations from other areas | 99 | |
| 16823018 | distance decay | the effects of distance on interactions, generally greater the distance teh less interaction | 100 | |
| 16823019 | step migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city | 101 | |
| 16823020 | intevening opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites further away | 102 | |
| 16823021 | kinship links | types of push or pull factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success | 103 | |
| 16823022 | chain migration | pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links | 104 | |
| 16823023 | immigration wave | phenomenon whereby differnt patterns of migraation build upon one another and creat a wave | 105 | |
| 16823024 | explorers | a person examining a region that is unknown to them | 106 | |
| 16823025 | colonization | colinizer takes over another place, putting its own government in it | 107 | |
| 16823026 | island of development | place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investments and which has high paying jobs | 108 | |
| 16823027 | guest workers | legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term | 109 | |
| 16823028 | refugees | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country | 110 | |
| 16823029 | international refugees | refugees who have crossed 1 or more international boundaries during their dislocation | 111 | |
| 16823030 | internal refugee | people who have been displaced within their own countires and do not cross international borders as they flee | 112 | |
| 16823031 | asylum | shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another country | 113 | |
| 16823032 | immigration laws | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into the state | 114 | |
| 16823033 | quotas | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year | 115 | |
| 16823034 | selective immigration | process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from immigrating | 116 |
