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| The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes or seconds of latitude, 0-90 degrees north or south of the Equator, and longitude, 0-180 degrees east or west of the Prim Meridian passing through Greenwich England (a suburb of London). | ||
| The art and science of making maps, including data, compilation, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapping designs. | ||
| The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness. | ||
| 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 activity of various human occupants. | ||
| The spread of an innovation or idea through a population or an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination. | ||
| A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena. | ||
| A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. | ||
| The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. | ||
| A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrog of innovations over wide areas, with geographic distance a less important influence. | ||
| The spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | ||
| Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space. | ||
| The design of a spacial distribution (e.g. scattered or concentrated) | ||
| The spread of something over a given area; if objects are close, then they are clustered; if objects are relatively far apart, they are dispersed. | ||
| The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | ||
| The frequency with which something exists within a given area. | ||
| A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not a demarcated entity. (e.g. "the South" or "Mid-Atlantic" | ||
| The natural features of Earth (landforms, bodies of water, climate, etc...) | ||
| Geographic viewpoint- a response to determination - that holds that human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development. | ||
| The reasonable situation or position of a place relative to the position of other places.. | ||
| 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. The most common case involves the spreading of innovations by a migrating population. | ||
| Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction of generalization. In cartography, the relation of map distance to ground distance; indicated on a map by a bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement. | ||
| The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the commulative, cultural landscape. | ||
| The internal locational attributes to a place, including its absolute location, its spacial character, and physical setting. | ||
| The external locational attributes to a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places. | ||
| When places are connected to each other through a network. | ||
| A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place. |
