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| 4791477978 | Hearth | The site of an innovation's origin | 0 | |
| 4791478782 | Relocation Diffusion | When an aspect of culture moves from one location to another. | 1 | |
| 4908549793 | Mercator projection |  | 2 | |
| 4908551727 | Robinson projection |  | 3 | |
| 4908553658 | Winkle Tripel projection |  | 4 | |
| 4908555120 | Peters projection |  | 5 | |
| 4908556792 | Goode's Interrupted Projection |  | 6 | |
| 4908558707 | Contour Map |  | 7 | |
| 4908587464 | Dot Map |  | 8 | |
| 4908593449 | Graduated Symbol |  | 9 | |
| 4908596566 | Cartogram |  | 10 | |
| 4908599713 | small scale map |  | 11 | |
| 4908603751 | large scale map |  | 12 | |
| 4908606327 | graphic scale |  | 13 | |
| 4908619082 | written (verbal) scale |  | 14 | |
| 4908667319 | prime meridian | This line was established in 1884 taking the Greenwich meridian as 0 degrees longitude | 15 | |
| 4908683616 | isoline map |  | 16 | |
| 4908687675 | choropleth maps |  | 17 | |
| 4908690892 | political map |  | 18 | |
| 4908693233 | physical map |  | 19 | |
| 4908696341 | longitude | these lines, also called meridians, meet at the poles and measure distances east and west of the prime meridian | 20 | |
| 4908700710 | latitude | these lines measure distances north and south of the equator | 21 | |
| 4908714942 | International Date Line | This line is measured from approximately 180 degrees longitude | 22 | |
| 4908724956 | site | The small Himalayan nation of Bhutan is located within the world's highest mountain range, the terrain of the country is extremely rugged and hard to get around. | 23 | |
| 4908744292 | situation | Canada's Eastern Provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are some of that country's most economically downtrodden areas due to their isolation from the rest of Canada making manufacturing and the little agriculture possible too expensive. | 24 | |
| 4908790304 | Formal Regions | An area with a unifying political boundary or long lasting unified economy | 25 | |
| 4908806474 | Vernacular (Perceptual) region | An area that people's individual ideas of culture shape and define for them like Southern California or New England. | 26 | |
| 4908818924 | Functional Region |  | 27 | |
| 4915983953 | Aristotle | Early Greek philosopher and scientist who demonstrated that the Earth was spherical by observing the movements of the night sky | 28 | |
| 4916016881 | Eratosthenes | Greek mathematician and geographer who first used the term geography. | 29 | |
| 4916035618 | Ptolemy | Greek-Egyptian geographer and astronomer who is credited with the terms latitude and longitude | 30 | |
| 4916046489 | Idrisi | Arab geographer who collected all known geographical information and created an accurate representation of the world on a disc of silver weighing 300 pounds | 31 | |
| 4916063802 | Waldseemuller | German cartographer who first used the term America to refer to the newly discovered lands in the western hemisphere. | 32 | |
| 4916081659 | Ortelius | Created the first known atlas of the world | 33 | |
| 4916086390 | Carl Sauer | Geographer best associated with the ideas of possibilism | 34 | |
| 4916100755 | Qualitative | Data obtained through interviews, field studies and analysis of historical accounts | 35 | |
| 4916110018 | Quantitative | Data obtained through statistical studies and analysis | 36 | |
| 4916115702 | Census | A study taken every ten years which provides the United States with extensive data on its population and their makeup | 37 | |
| 4916127789 | Remote sensing | The art and science of making measurements of the Earth using satellites and images taken by airplanes | 38 | |
| 4916152500 | Geographic Information Systems | A computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing feature events on earth. | 39 | |
| 4916165764 | Global Positioning Systems | System that uses satellites to determine the absolute location of a place | 40 | |
| 4916175645 | Cartography | The science of making maps | 41 | |
| 4916184404 | Absolute Location | the intersection of longitude and latitude | 42 | |
| 4916215538 | Relative location | Hartford is located approximately 40 miles north of New Haven | 43 | |
| 4916233863 | Toponym | Influenced by settlers, physical features and history | 44 | |
| 4916258295 | Globalization | heightened interdependence due to increasing interactions in the Internet age | 45 | |
| 4916265596 | Diffusion | The spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 46 | |
| 4916276331 | Relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through physical movement of people from one place to another. | 47 | |
| 4916285202 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process. | 48 | |
| 4916294126 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of fashion trends from New York City and Paris to smaller cities and communities | 49 | |
| 4916309163 | Contagious diffusion | The widespread diffusion of a trend through the population | 50 | |
| 4916332822 | Stimulus Diffusion | Iced tea is an example of drink that became popular in the South due to the habits of English settlers | 51 | |
| 4916358046 | Environmental Determinism | The belief that the success of a population was largely determined by "geographic luck" | 52 | |
| 4916366106 | Possibilism | The belief that people can overcome the challenges presented to them by geography | 53 | |
| 4916374904 | sustainability | the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely | 54 | |
| 4916383097 | preservation | when resources are saved by not using them at all | 55 | |
| 4916390576 | conservation | using resources carefully and sparingly | 56 |
