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| 4775803113 | cartography | The science of making maps. | 0 | |
| 4775804511 | contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population. | 1 | |
| 4775808805 | cultural ecology | The geographic study of how humans and the environment interact. | 2 | |
| 4775835122 | culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 3 | |
| 4775835123 | density | the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. | 4 | |
| 4775835124 | diffusion | the process of spread of a feature or trend from on place to another over time. | 5 | |
| 4775835649 | distance-decay | the diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 6 | |
| 4775835650 | distribution | the arrangement of something across Earth's surface | 7 | |
| 4775836564 | environmental determinism | study of how the physical environment caused human activities. | 8 | |
| 4775836565 | Equator | 0 degrees latitude | 9 | |
| 4775840225 | expansion diffusion | spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process. | 10 | |
| 4775840226 | formal region | (or uniform region) an area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics | 11 | |
| 4775841032 | functional region | (or nodal region) an area organized around a node or focal point | 12 | |
| 4775841033 | GIS | a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data | 13 | |
| 4775841034 | GPS | a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. | 14 | |
| 4775841049 | hierarchical diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. | 15 | |
| 4775842068 | hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate | 16 | |
| 4775842069 | International Date Line | follows 180 degrees longitude, cross it towards America and clock moves back 24 hours | 17 | |
| 4775843390 | latitude | numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator | 18 | |
| 4775843391 | longitude | numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring east and west of the prime meridian. | 19 | |
| 4775843392 | Mercator projection | shape is only distorted a little shape is consistent landmasses closer to the poles are exaggerated | 20 | |
| 4775846023 | possibilism | the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | 21 | |
| 4775847667 | Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude | 22 | |
| 4775848846 | projection | system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map | 23 | |
| 4775848847 | relocation diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another | 24 | |
| 4775852416 | remote sensing | acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods | 25 | |
| 4775852417 | Robinson projection | a compromise map projection showing the poles as lines rather than points and more accurately portraying high latitude lands and water to land ratio | 26 | |
| 4775852418 | scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole | 27 | |
| 4775852419 | site | physical character of a place | 28 | |
| 4775853122 | situation | location of a place relative to another place | 29 | |
| 4775853123 | space time compression | the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems | 30 | |
| 4775853985 | spatial association | relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature | 31 | |
| 4775854930 | stimulus diffusion | spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected | 32 | |
| 4775854931 | time zones | any of the 24 longitudinal areas into which the world is divided and within which the same standard time is used | 33 | |
| 4775854932 | toponym | name given to a place on the of Earth's surface | 34 | |
| 4775856059 | uneven development | increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy | 35 | |
| 4775856060 | vernacular region | (or perceptual region) an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. | 36 |
