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| 914153118 | concentration | The spread of something over a given area. This map shows the concentration of people in the United States. |  | 0 |
| 914153119 | connection | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space, for example, roads connect different communities. |  | 1 |
| 914153120 | contagious diffusion | a type of expansion diffusion; the rapid widespread diffusion of feature or trend throughout a population |  | 2 |
| 914153122 | density | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. This neighborhood in India is densely populated. |  | 3 |
| 914153123 | diffusion | The process or spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time, for example, McDonald's and other fast food chains have spread all over the world, changing people's eating habits. |  | 4 |
| 914153124 | distance decay | the diminishing importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin (or hearth) | 5 | |
| 914153125 | distribution | the arrangement of something across the earth's surface |  | 6 |
| 914153126 | environmental determinism | Studying geography to see how the physical environment caused human activities. | 7 | |
| 914153127 | expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process | 8 | |
| 914153128 | formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristic. |  | 9 |
| 914153129 | functional region | an area organized around a node or focal point (it has a center) |  | 10 |
| 914153130 | geographic grid | a system of imaginary arcs or lines drawn in a grid pattern on the Earth's surface |  | 11 |
| 914153131 | Geographic Information Science GIScience | the development and analysis of data about the earth acquired through satellite and other resources |  | 12 |
| 914153132 | Geographic information system (GIS) | A computer system that stores, organizes, and displays geographic data |  | 13 |
| 914153133 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the whole world and result in making something worldwide in scope |  | 14 |
| 914153134 | Global Positioning System (GPS) | A system that determines the precise position of something through a series of satellites, tracking stations and receivers. |  | 15 |
| 914153135 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas orignate | 16 | |
| 914153136 | Hierarchical diffusion | A type of expansion diffusion, the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or authority or power to other persons orplaces | 17 | |
| 914153137 | latitude | lines or circles drawn around the globe, the lines run in an E-W directions and they are either North or South of the Equator |  | 18 |
| 914153138 | location | the position of anything on the Earth's surface |  | 19 |
| 914153139 | longitude | lines also called meridians that run N to S on the globe, the lines are located E or W of the Prime Meridian |  | 20 |
| 914153140 | pattern | the regular arrangement of something in an area | 21 | |
| 914153141 | place | a specific point on the Earth's surface distinguished by certain characteristics |  | 22 |
| 914153142 | possiblism | the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives | 23 | |
| 914153143 | region | an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of physical and cultural characteristics | | 24 |
| 914153144 | relocation diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend through the movement of people from one place to another | 25 | |
| 914153145 | remote sensing | the acquisition of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distance method |  | 26 |
| 914153146 | scale | the relationship between the portion of the earth being studied and the earth as a whole | 27 | |
| 914153147 | site | the physical characteristics of a place | 28 | |
| 914153148 | situation | the location of a place relative to other places | 29 | |
| 914153149 | space | the physical gap between two objects | 30 | |
| 914153150 | space-time compression | the reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems | 31 | |
| 914153151 | stimulus diffusion | a type of expansion diffusion, the spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected | 32 | |
| 914153152 | toponym | the name given to a portion of the earth's surface (place name) |  | 33 |
| 914153153 | vernacular region/perceptual | an area that people believe exists as part of a cultural identity | 34 | |
| 1668196169 | human geography | the area of geography that studies how human activity affects or influenced by the earth' surface |  | 35 |
| 1668196170 | absolute location | ...the location of something using a coordinate system (ex. Mpls location is 44°58′47″ N, 93°15′49″ W ) |  | 36 |
| 1668196171 | relative location | ...the location of something using landmarks | 37 | |
| 1668200849 | Meridian/Prime Meridian | ...0° longitude | 38 | |
| 1668208442 | cultural landscape | fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group | 39 | |
| 1668216485 | map projection | ...transferring locations on the Earth's surface to a flat map |  | 40 |
| 1668216486 | map scale | ...the relationship between the size of an object and the actual size of a feature on the Earth's surface |  | 41 |
| 1668216487 | map distortion | ...When information from the round surface of the earth is transferred to a flat surface, sometimes that information is incorrect or distorted by shape, distance size or direction. This map shows Antarctica distorted by size and shape. |  | 42 |
