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7273353202	sequent occupance	when different groups create distinct cultural landscapes in an area	0
7273353203	cultural landscape	Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.	1
7273353204	Arithmetic Density	The total number of people divided by the total land area.	2
7273353205	physiological density	the number of people per unit area of arable land	3
7273353206	hearth (n.)	the region from which innovative ideas originate	4
7273353207	Difussion	movement from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration	5
7273353208	relocation diffusion	the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another	6
7273353209	expansion diffusion	the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process	7
7273353210	Hierarchical Diffusion	Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places	8
7273353211	Contagious Diffusion	the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population	9
7273353212	Stimulus diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.	10
7273353213	absolute distance	Exact measurement of the physical space between two places.	11
7273353214	relative distance	Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places.	12
7273353215	Distribution	The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.	13
7273353216	environmental determinism	the concept that the environment determines what an individual is.	14
7273353217	absolute location	the precise point where a place is located on Earth	15
7273353218	relative location	The position of a place in relation to another place	16
7273353219	site	The physical character of a place	17
7273353220	Situation	the location of a place relative to other places	18
7273353221	Space time compression	Reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place	19
7273353222	friction of distance	Increase in time and cost that comes with increasing distance	20
7273353223	Distance Decay	decline of activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin	21
7273353224	Networks	Sets of informal and formal social ties that link people to each other.	22
7273353225	Connectivity	Connectedness of a node in the world economy to other nodes along networks	23
7273353226	accessability	the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations	24
7273353227	space	refers to the physical gap or interval between two objecrs	25
7273353228	Spatial Distribution	Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.	26
7273353229	size	Is the estimation or determination of extent	27
7273353230	scale	Representation of real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization	28
7273353231	formal region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics	29
7273353232	Functional Region	An area organized around a node or focal point	30
7273353233	vernacular region	an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity	31
7273353234	Possibilism	Environment influences, but does not control, human events	32
7273353235	pattern	The design of spatial distribution.	33
7273353236	Toponym	often referred to as a place name	34
7273353237	gps	Global Positioning System	35
7273353238	gis	A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.	36