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| 265754499 | Aggregation | The level of detain dividing a thematic map into graphic units | |
| 265754500 | Agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | |
| 265754501 | Arithmetic density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | |
| 265754502 | Cognitive map | A mental map | |
| 265754503 | Chloropleth map | a thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area | |
| 265754504 | Categorical map | A map using colors to break places into groups | |
| 265754505 | Cartography | the making or study of maps or charts. | |
| 265754506 | Concentration | the spatial property of being crowded together | |
| 265754507 | Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | |
| 265754508 | Cultural ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. | |
| 265754509 | Density | the amount of matter in a given space | |
| 265754510 | Diffusion | the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | |
| 265754511 | distance decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | |
| 265754512 | dot density map | Thematic map that uses dots to represent the frequency of a variable in a given area. | |
| 265754513 | 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. | |
| 265754514 | equator | an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole | |
| 265754515 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | |
| 265754516 | formal region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics | |
| 265754517 | Functional region | An area organized around a node or focal point | |
| 265754518 | Geographic information system(GIS) | A computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data | |
| 265754519 | Global positioning system(GPS) | a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver | |
| 265754520 | Globalization | growth to a global or worldwide scale | |
| 265754521 | hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates | |
| 265754522 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | |
| 265754523 | International date line | An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day. | |
| 265754524 | Land ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. | |
| 265754525 | Latitude/Longitude | Longitude lines are lines that go vertically on maps. Latitude lines are lines that go horizontally on maps. Of course these maps are not physically on the planet. | |
| 265754526 | location | The position of anything on Earth's surface. | |
| 265754527 | Map projection | A mathematical method that involves transferring the earth's sphere onto a flat surface. This term can also be used to describe the type of map that results from the process of projecting. All map projections have distortions in either area, direction, distance, or shape. | |
| 265754528 | Mercator projection | A true conformal cylindrical map projection, the Mercator projection is particularly useful for navigation because it maintains accurate direction. Mercator projections are famous for their distortion in area that makes landmasses at the poles appear oversized. | |
| 265754529 | Pattern | Linear in a line, centralized around one point, random | |
| 265754530 | Physiological density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | |
| 265754531 | Place | assign a location to | |
| 265754532 | Toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known | |
| 265754533 | possiblism | The physical environment may limit human actions but people have the ability to adapt | |
| 265754534 | Prime meridian | meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England) | |
| 265754535 | Proportional symbol map | Map that uses some symbol to display the frequency of a variable. The larger the symbol on the map, the higher the frequency of the variable found in that region | |
| 265754536 | Region | a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | |
| 265754537 | Regional studies | an approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. | |
| 265754538 | relative location | the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | |
| 265754539 | Relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | |
| 265754540 | Remote sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | |
| 265754541 | Robinson projection | a map projection that does not distort the area of water to landmass as much, but whose direction does not hold as true. | |
| 265754542 | Scale | types graphic, fractional, verbal | |
| 265754543 | site | physical position in relation to the surroundings | |
| 265754544 | 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 | |
| 265754545 | Stimulous diffusion | the spread of an underlying principal even though a specific characteristic is rejected | |
| 265754546 | Thematic map | A type of map that displays one or more variables-such as population, or income level-within a specific area. | |
| 265754547 | Transnational corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | |
| 265754548 | uneven development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. | |
| 265754549 | vernacular region | A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. | |
| 272786543 | census | A periodic and official count of a country's population every 10 years | |
| 272786544 | circulation | the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | |
| 272786545 | Cotton belt | The term by which the American South used to be known, as cotton historically dominated the agricultural economy of the region. The same area is now known as the New South or Sun Belt because people have migrated here from older cities in the industrial north for a better climate and new job opportunities. | |
| 272786546 | demography | the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | |
| 272786547 | Dependency Ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compares to the number of people active in the labor force. | |
| 272786548 | ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | |
| 272786549 | emmigration | the movement of individuals out of a population | |
| 272786550 | internal migration | permanent movement within the same country | |
| 272786551 | international migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | |
| 272786552 | interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another | |
| 272786553 | intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. | |
| 272786554 | Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | |
| 272786555 | Rust Belt | The northern industrial states of the United States, including Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once the dominant economic activity. In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, these states lost much of their economic base to economically attractive regions of the United States and to countries where labor was cheaper, leaving old machinery to rust in the moist northern climate. | |
| 272786556 | Sun Belt | U.S. region, mostly comprised of southeastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since World War II. | |
| 272786557 | Total fertility rate | The number of children born to an average woman in a population during her entire reproductive life | |
| 272813309 | acculturation | the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend | |
| 272813310 | animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. | |
| 272813311 | caste system | a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society | |
| 272813312 | creole language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. | |
| 272813313 | Dialect | a variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciation, often associated with a particular geographical region | |
| 272813314 | Diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel | |
| 272813315 | Evangelical religions | Religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system. | |
| 272813316 | fundamentalism | insistence on what people perceive as the historical form of their religion, in contrast to more contemporary influences. This ideal sometimes takes extreme, rigidly exclusive, or violent forms | |
| 272813317 | isogloss | A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate | |
| 272813318 | language extinction | This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language first developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years. | |
| 272813319 | Language branch | A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family. | |
| 272813320 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | |
| 272813321 | Language Group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. | |
| 272813322 | Lingua Franca | a common language used by speakers of different languages | |
| 272813323 | pidgin | an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages | |
| 272813324 | Romance languages | those European languages descended from Latin, namely French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish | |
| 272813325 | Sect | a subdivision of a larger religious group | |
| 272813326 | Shaman | in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds |
