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| 4770563512 | spatial diffusion | the way that culture spreads through space over time | 0 | |
| 4770564179 | contagious | spreads because of the proximity of carriers; ex:harlem shake, keep calm, call me maybe dance; spreads all over | 1 | |
| 4770570994 | heirarchal | in the big cities; fast food, fashion, clothing | 2 | |
| 4770572396 | stimulus | a spread of an idea: takes another persons idea and adds it to theirs; ex: apple vs pc | 3 | |
| 4770578139 | isoline map | weather map | 4 | |
| 4770580044 | small scale | the entire world | 5 | |
| 4770580316 | large scale | a state, counties | 6 | |
| 4770581399 | small scale | less detail, more area | 7 | |
| 4770581863 | large scale | more detail, less area | 8 | |
| 4770587222 | inquiry | geographers often use this type of investigative method to examine issues | 9 | |
| 4770590057 | legend, scale, title source, date | key elements on a map | 10 | |
| 4770595609 | site characteristics include | the unique physical and human characteristics of a location | 11 | |
| 4770596598 | situation | where something is located in relation to something else | 12 | |
| 4770597526 | choropleth map | shows areas with statistical values in three to five categories | 13 | |
| 4770602417 | sense of place | the unique physical and human attributes that gives a place character | 14 | |
| 4770605974 | meridians | converge at the north and south poles | 15 | |
| 4770606931 | longitude | numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians | 16 | |
| 4770610233 | polder | piece of land created by draining the area | 17 | |
| 4770615755 | ratio or fraction scale | the numerical ratio between distances in a map and earth's surface; 1:24000 | 18 | |
| 4770616521 | written scale | describes the relationship between map and earth distances in words; 1 inch equals 1 mile | 19 | |
| 4770618961 | graphic scale | consists of a bar line marked to show distances on earths surface | 20 | |
| 4770620887 | shape, distance, relative size, direction | what can be distorted on maps | 21 | |
| 4770622338 | interruption | eastern and western hemispheres are separated into two pieces | 22 | |
| 4770623933 | robinson projection | useful for displaying information across oceans | 23 | |
| 4770652001 | mercator projection | shape distorted very little, direction is consistent, map is rectangular, grossly distorted by the poles | 24 | |
| 4770680989 | meridian | an arc between the north and south poles; longitude | 25 | |
| 4770685619 | paralell | a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians; latitude | 26 | |
| 4770688889 | formal region | everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristic; ex: common language, same laws, same climate | 27 | |
| 4770690118 | functional region | an area organized around a nodal point; ex: police station, fire station, | 28 | |
| 4770694429 | vernacular region | cultural; ex: food type, languages, the south, | 29 | |
| 4770698777 | density | the frequency in which something occurs in space | 30 | |
| 4770700090 | concentration | the extent of a feature's spread over space | 31 | |
| 4770702315 | pattern | geometric arrangement of objects in space | 32 | |
| 4770705109 | conservation | the sustainable use and management of earth's natural resources to meet human needs | 33 | |
| 4770707333 | preservation | the maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible | 34 | |
| 4770710871 | geographers | identify important locations, ask where and why, organize spatially | 35 | |
| 4770712344 | historians | identify dates, ask when and why, organize chronologically | 36 | |
| 4773478065 | hearth | a place from which an innovation originates | 37 | |
| 4773481904 | relocation | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another; ex: a european home design being brought to america | 38 | |
| 4773816988 | distance decay | the farther away two peoples are the less likley they are to talk | 39 | |
| 4773821028 | space-time compression | the reduction time it takes for something to reach another place | 40 | |
| 4773824175 | renewable | produced in nature more rapidly than its consumed by humans | 41 | |
| 4773825610 | nonrenewable | produced in nature slower that its consumed | 42 | |
| 4773827792 | atmosphere | thin layer of gases surrounding the earth | 43 | |
| 4773829670 | hydrosphere | all the water on or near earths surface | 44 | |
| 4773830614 | lithosphere | earths crust and a portion of upper mantle below the crust | 45 | |
| 4773835956 | biosphere | all of earths living organisms | 46 |
