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| 7328478537 | toponym | A name given to a place on Earth | 0 | |
| 7328485246 | Stimulus Diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself fails to diffuse | 1 | |
| 7328493359 | hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate | 2 | |
| 7328499783 | space-time compression | the reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transportation systems | 3 | |
| 7328513345 | Vernacular region (perceptual) | an area that people exists as part of their cultural identity | 4 | |
| 7328520056 | Relocation Diffusion | the spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from place to place | 5 | |
| 7328523830 | distance decay | the diminished importance of and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 6 | |
| 7328536734 | contagious diffusion | the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population | 7 | |
| 7328547274 | physiological density | the number of people per arable land, which is suitable for agriculture | 8 | |
| 7328554354 | concentration | the spread of something over a given area | 9 | |
| 7328560223 | formal region (uniform) | an area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics | 10 | |
| 7328573605 | acculturation | the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups | 11 | |
| 7328579673 | assimilation | the process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group | 12 | |
| 7328588574 | functional region (nodal) | an area organized around a node or focal point | 13 | |
| 7328596448 | agricultural density | the ratio of number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | 14 | |
| 7328601665 | density | the frequency with which something exists within a given area | 15 | |
| 7328609095 | region | an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features | 16 | |
| 7328619471 | diffusion | the process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another over time | 17 | |
| 7328628346 | distribution | the arrangement of something across Earth's surface | 18 | |
| 7328652072 | geography | the study of where things are found on Earth's surface and the reasons for their locations | 19 | |
| 7328669303 | place | a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic | 20 | |
| 7328676883 | scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole | 21 | |
| 7328687760 | space | the physical gap or interval between two objects | 22 | |
| 7328694794 | connection | relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 23 | |
| 7328702109 | map | a 2-D or flat scale model of Earth's surface (can be used as reference and communications tool) | 24 | |
| 7328721084 | cartography | the science of mapmaking | 25 | |
| 7328727189 | GPS | use of satellites to pinpoint an exact location on Earth's surface | 26 | |
| 7328746159 | Geographic Information Science (GIScience) | analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other information technologies | 27 | |
| 7328761554 | Geographic Information System (GIS) | captures, stores, queries, and displays the geographic data | 28 | |
| 7328769489 | remote sensing | acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods | 29 | |
| 7328784950 | map scale | the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth | 30 | |
| 7328805593 | The three ways map scale is represented? | ratio, graphic, and written | 31 | |
| 7328813525 | projection | scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map | 32 | |
| 7328824411 | Four types of distortion? | shape of an area, distance between two points, relative size of an area, and direction from one place to another | 33 | |
| 7328847246 | meridian | an arc drawn between the North and South poles | 34 | |
| 7328853787 | longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the Prime meridian | 35 | |
| 7328882235 | parallel | a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians | 36 | |
| 7328914419 | latitude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the equator | 37 | |
| 7328929915 | prime meridian | located at Greenwich, England at 180 degrees longitude; all other meridians have numbers between 0 and 180 east or west relative to the prime meridian | 38 | |
| 7328952889 | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | The master reference time for all points on Earth | 39 | |
| 7329015765 | International Date Line | 180 degrees, reset point, move clock back 24 hours if heading east, and 24 hours forward if you are going west | 40 | |
| 7329040689 | site | the physical character of a place | 41 | |
| 7329052884 | situation | location of a place relative to other places | 42 | |
| 7329070136 | culture | body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people; what people care about and take care of | 43 | |
| 7329089219 | spatial association | occurs within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to another; income, life expectancy, crime, liquor stores | 44 | |
| 7329105501 | globalization | a force or process that involves the entire world and result s in making something worldwide in scope | 45 | |
| 7329122492 | transnational corporation | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters are located | 46 | |
| 7329136555 | pattern | geometric arrangement of objects in space | 47 | |
| 7329147287 | What geographers look for in distribution? | ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender | 48 | |
| 7329162688 | poststructuralist geography | how the powerful in society seek to control less powerful and how they occupy space and the disputes that result from it | 49 | |
| 7329173399 | humanistic geography | the different ways individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meaning | 50 | |
| 7329193228 | behavioral geography | the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space | 51 | |
| 7329217069 | uneven development | the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy | 52 | |
| 7329240337 | syncretism | combination of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature; a new culture is formed | 53 | |
| 7329260566 | network | a chain of communication that connects places | 54 | |
| 7329274506 | resource | something from the environment that is useful to people economically, technologically, able to be used, and socially acceptable to use | 55 | |
| 7329283305 | sustainability | use of Earth's resources that ensures their availability in the future | 56 | |
| 7329295387 | conservation and preservation | resources are used slowly for sustainability; resources not used at all | 57 | |
| 7329312729 | three sustainability pillars? | economic, societal, and environmental | 58 | |
| 7329328850 | environmental determinism | the environment decides life expectancy, education, income, etc. | 59 | |
| 7329344356 | possiblism | the physical environment may limit some human actions, but we can ultimately get around that in alternate ways | 60 | |
| 7329362923 | polder | a piece of land created by draining water from an area | 61 |
