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| 20636269 | absolute location | the position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in digress, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude | |
| 20636270 | accessibility | the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations. | |
| 20636271 | activity (action) space | the space within which daily activity occurs | |
| 20636272 | cartography | The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with interpretation of mapped patterns. | |
| 20636273 | connectivity | The degree of direct linkages between one particular location and other locations in a transport network. | |
| 20636274 | contagious diffusion | The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person. | |
| 20636275 | cultural barrier | Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas, or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in a particular culture. | |
| 20636276 | cultural diffusion | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area. | |
| 20636277 | cultural ecology | The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment. | |
| 20636278 | cultural hearth | Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture | |
| 20636279 | cultural landscape | The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants. | |
| 20636280 | culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. | |
| 20636281 | culture complex | A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. | |
| 20636282 | culture trait | A single element of normal practice within a culture, such as the wearing of a turban | |
| 20636283 | distance | measurement of the physical space between two places. | |
| 20636284 | environmental determinism | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. Also referred to as environmentalism. | |
| 20636285 | epidemic | regional outbreak of a disease | |
| 20636286 | expansion diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination. | |
| 20636287 | fieldwork | The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places | |
| 20636288 | five themes | Location, human-environment, region, place, and movement. | |
| 20636289 | formal region | A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena, also called a uniform region or a homogeneous region | |
| 20636290 | functional region | A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. | |
| 20636291 | geocaching | A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the internet by other geocachers | |
| 20636292 | geographic concept | ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions | |
| 20636293 | geographic information systems (GIS) | a collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user. | |
| 20636294 | globalization | the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. | |
| 20636295 | global positioning system (GPS) | satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features | |
| 20636296 | hierarchical diffusion | a form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. | |
| 20636297 | human-environment | the second theme of geography; reciprocal relationship between humans and environment | |
| 20636298 | human geography | one of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human populations, its cultures, activities, and landscapes | |
| 20636299 | independent invention | the term for a trait with many cultural hearts, which developed independently of each other | |
| 20636300 | isotherm | Line on a map connecting points of equal temperature values | |
| 20636301 | landscape | the overall appearance of an area, usually composed of natural and human-induced influences | |
| 20636302 | location | the first theme of geography; the geographical situation of people and things | |
| 20636303 | location theory | a logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated | |
| 20636304 | medical geography | the study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective | |
| 20636305 | mental map | image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of the space | |
| 20636306 | movement | the fifth theme of geography; the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet | |
| 20636307 | pandemic | an outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide | |
| 20636308 | pattern | the design of a spatial distribution | |
| 20636309 | perception of place | Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, stories, movies, or pictures. | |
| 20636310 | perceptual region | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity | |
| 20636311 | physical geography | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and locations of the Earth's natural phenomena such as soil, climate, plants, animals, and topography. | |
| 20636312 | place | One of the five themes of geography; the uniqueness of a location | |
| 20636313 | political ecology | An approach to studying nature-society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated. | |
| 20636314 | possibilism | Geographic viewpoint that holds that human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development. | |
| 20636315 | reference maps | Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude | |
| 20636316 | regions | One of the five themes of geography; an area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon | |
| 20636317 | relative location | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | |
| 20636318 | relocation diffusion | Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. | |
| 20636319 | remote sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g., satellites) that are physically distant from the area or object of study | |
| 20636320 | rescale | Involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative (e.g., use of the Internet to generate interest on a national or global scale for a local position or initiative | |
| 20636321 | sense of place | State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in n that place or by labeling that place with a certain character | |
| 20636322 | sequent occupance | The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape | |
| 20636323 | spatial | pertaining to space on the earth's surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic | |
| 20636324 | spatial distribution | Physical location of geographic phenomena across space | |
| 20636325 | spatial interaction | the flow of products, people, services, or information among places, in response to localized supply and demand. | |
| 20636326 | spatial perspective | observing variations in geographic phenomena across space | |
| 20636327 | stimulus diffusion | A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of a cultural trait from another place | |
| 20636328 | thematic maps | Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon | |
| 20636329 | time-distance decay | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source |
