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| 199565750 | fieldwork | to go out in the field and see what people are doing, to observe how peoples' actions and reactions vary across space | |
| 199565751 | globalization | set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heigtening relationships without regard to country borders | |
| 199565752 | physical geography | study of physical phenomena on Earth | |
| 199565753 | spatial distribution | physical location of geographic phenomena across space | |
| 199565754 | pattern | design of spatial distribution | |
| 199565755 | medical geography | study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective | |
| 199565756 | pandemics | outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide | |
| 199565757 | spatial perspective | observing variations in geographic phenomena across space | |
| 199565758 | location | first theme of geography; geographical situation of people and things | |
| 199565759 | region | third theme of geography | |
| 199565760 | place | fourth theme of geography | |
| 199565761 | sense of place | state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place on by labeling a place with a certain character | |
| 199565762 | perceptions of places | belief on "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures | |
| 199565763 | movement | mobility of people, goods, and ideas across surface of planet | |
| 199565764 | spatial interaction | condition that exists when two regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products, can specifically satisfy each other's demands | |
| 199565765 | distances | measurement of physical space between two places | |
| 199565766 | accessibility | degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations | |
| 199565767 | connectivity | degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network | |
| 199565768 | landscape | overall appearance of an area | |
| 199565769 | cultural landscape | visible imprint of human activity and culture on landscape | |
| 199565770 | sequent occupance | notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to cumulative cultural landscape | |
| 199565771 | cartography | the art and science of making maps | |
| 199565772 | reference maps | shows locations of places and geographic features | |
| 199565773 | thematic maps | tells stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the mobement of a geographic phenomenon | |
| 199565774 | absolute locations | locations determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude | |
| 199565775 | global positioning system (GPS) | a system to locate thing on the surface of Earth with extraordinary accuracy | |
| 199565776 | geocaching | a hunt for cache whose coordinates are placed on the Internet by other geocachers | |
| 199565777 | relative location | describes a place in relation to other human and physical features | |
| 199565778 | mental maps | image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space | |
| 199565779 | activity spaces | places we travel to routiney in our daily activity | |
| 199565781 | generalized map | maps that help us see general trends | |
| 199565782 | remote sensing | method of collecting data or information through use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study | |
| 199565783 | geographic information system (GIS) | collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to user | |
| 199565784 | formal region | type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena | |
| 199565785 | perceptual region | intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and ditribution of phenomenon in human geography | |
| 199565786 | culture | sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of a society | |
| 199565787 | culture trait | single element of normal practice in a culture | |
| 199565788 | culture complex | related set of cultural traits | |
| 199565789 | cultural health | heartland, source area, innovation center | |
| 199565790 | independent invention | term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other | |
| 199565791 | culture diffusion | expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its palce of origin to a wider area | |
| 199565792 | time-distance decay | declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innocation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source | |
| 199565793 | cultural barriers | prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture | |
| 199565794 | expansion diffusion | 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 | |
| 199565795 | contagious diffusion | distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person | |
| 199565796 | hierarchial diffusion | form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most conncected places or peoples | |
| 199565797 | stimulus diffusion | form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place | |
| 199565798 | relocation diffusion | sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones | |
| 199565799 | environmental determinism | view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life | |
| 199565800 | possibilism | geographic viewpoint- response to determinism-that holds that human decision making, not the environment, is crucial factor in cultural development | |
| 199565801 | cultural ecology | multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and natural environment | |
| 199565802 | political ecology | approach to studying nature-society relationis that is concerned with ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are result of, political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated | |
| 199756454 | epidemic | regional outbreak of a disease | |
| 199756455 | location theory | logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated | |
| 199756456 | rescale | involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative | |
| 199757329 | geographic concept | ways of seeing world spatially that are used by geographers in answering questions | |
| 199757330 | isothem | line on map connecting points of equal temperature values |
