We are to be tested on these tomorrow in Ms. Moore's class.
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| 82524957 | fieldwork | work done in the field | |
| 82524958 | human geography | focuses on how ppl make places, organize society and space, and how we interact across space | |
| 82524959 | globalization | Set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships and heightening interdependence w/o regard to country borders | |
| 82524960 | physical geography | study of physical phenomena on earth | |
| 82524961 | spatial | aspects including people/places/ climates etc. | |
| 82524962 | spatial distribution | how spatial's are arranged and organized on earth | |
| 82524963 | pattern | relationships between different places and things | |
| 82524964 | medical geography | mapping of a disease | |
| 82524965 | pandemic | worldwide outbreak of a disease | |
| 82524966 | epidemic | regional outbreak of a disease | |
| 82524967 | spatial perspective | Understanding change across space/used to study a multitude of phenomena | |
| 82524968 | five themes | derived from spatial perspective | |
| 82524969 | location | geographic position of things on Earth | |
| 82524970 | location theory | element of contemporary Human Geo to answer questions like: why are towns where they are? | |
| 82524971 | human-environment | relationship between humans and their environment | |
| 82524972 | region | Phenomena not evenly distributed but concentrated in particular areas | |
| 82524973 | place | human and physical char. True to ONE specific place | |
| 82524974 | sense of place | infusing a place with meaning and emotion | |
| 82524975 | perception of place | the feeling a person connects with a place they haven't been to, based on what they've heard or read about the place | |
| 82524976 | movement | mobility of people/goods/ideas across earth | |
| 82524977 | spatial interaction | interactions of people, places, and climates | |
| 82524978 | distance | space between places | |
| 82524979 | accessibility | how easy it is to get across earth | |
| 82524980 | connectivity | how well communication is between places | |
| 82524981 | landscape | material character of a place | |
| 82524982 | sequent occupance | cultural secession & lasting imprint | |
| 82524983 | cartography | map making | |
| 82524984 | reference maps | show locations of places/geog. features | |
| 82524985 | thematic maps | tell stories involving movement across earth | |
| 82524986 | absolute location | exact location on Earth: uses Lat. & Long. | |
| 82524987 | global positioning system | satellites that determine position on earth | |
| 82524988 | geocaching | a hunt for a cache found using GPS | |
| 82524989 | relative location | describes a place in relation to other human/physical features | |
| 82524990 | mental map | maps recalled in the mind | |
| 82524991 | activity space | places traveled routinely: places that you are familiar with | |
| 82524992 | generalized map | maps that have info generalized, as they can't be pinpoint accurate | |
| 82524993 | remote sensing | monitoring the earth's surface from a distance | |
| 82524994 | geographic information systems | technology used to compare layers of spatial data | |
| 82524995 | rescale | to reduce or increase proportionally, as with a map | |
| 82524996 | formal region | regions marked by a visible uniformity | |
| 82524997 | functional region | marked by movement/interactions of various kinds | |
| 82524998 | perceptual region | constructs to understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography | |
| 82524999 | culture | ways of life of a society including music/art/food | |
| 82525000 | culture trait | a single attribute of a culture | |
| 82525001 | culture complex | combinations of traits in a culture | |
| 82525002 | cultural hearth | area where cultural traits develop | |
| 82525003 | independent invention | trait with many hearths that developed independent of each other | |
| 82525004 | cultural diffusion | spread of culture from hearth | |
| 82525005 | time-distance decay | acceptance of idea/innovation is less likely to be adopted the farther in distance or time from its hearth | |
| 82525006 | cultural barrier | occurs when certain ideas/innovations are specifically against another culture | |
| 82525007 | expansion diffusion | idea/innovation spreads and remains strong in hearth and spreads outward | |
| 82525008 | contagious diffusion | expansion where ALL adjacent individuals are affected | |
| 82525009 | hierarchical diffusion | pattern where one main channel of diffusion is a segment of those susceptible | |
| 82525010 | stimulus diffusion | although ideal is spread too different or vague, it still makes an impact | |
| 82525011 | relocation diffusion | actual move of people from Hearth who carry the culture/ideal/innovation | |
| 82525012 | geographic concept | ^ All the vocab stuff: individual concepts of geography | |
| 82525013 | environmental determinism | human behavior is strongly affected by their physical environment | |
| 82525014 | isotherm | lines connecting points of equal temperatures | |
| 82525015 | possibilism | choices that a society makes depend on member requirements and available technology | |
| 82525016 | cultural ecology | area studied with concern of culture in area | |
| 82525017 | political ecology | area of inquiry concerned with its political ideals |
