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61 Cards in this Set
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feildwork |
visting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places |
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human geography |
how we observe, organize, make, interact, and make sense of each other and across space |
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globalization |
a set of prosesses that are deepening relationships across national borders |
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spatial |
spatial arrangement of places and phenomenon |
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spatial distribution |
looking at a map of how something is distributed across space |
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patterns |
questions about how the arrangement of a phenomenon came about and the relationships exist between different places and things |
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medical geography |
mapping the distribution of a disease |
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physical geography |
spatial and material chracteristics of the human made places and people found on earths surface |
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pandemics |
worldwide outbrakes of a disease |
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spatial perspective |
multitude of phenomena |
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epidemic |
fast spreading disease |
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5 themes |
geography's spatial concerns |
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location |
position of people and places on the earth's surface |
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location theory |
decribing locational proporties of a particular phenomena; predicting where things are likely to occur |
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human-enviornment |
how humans affect the enviornment and vise-versa |
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place |
where things are position on the earths surface |
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sense of place |
infusing a place with meaning, by remembering inmoptant events that occur in a place |
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region |
features that tend to be more consentrated in particular areas |
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perception of place |
bias for home region |
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movement |
mobility of poeple, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet |
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spatial interactions |
depends on distance,the accessibility of places, and the connectivity among places |
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distances |
phisical space between two places |
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accessibility |
ease of reaching one location to another |
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connectivity |
degree of linkage between locations in a network |
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landscape |
material charcter of a place |
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cultural landscapes |
the visable imprint of human activity on the landscape |
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cartography |
art of making maps |
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refrence maps |
show location of places and geographic features |
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thematic maps |
attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon |
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absolute locations |
using a coordinate to describe a place |
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global positioning system (GPS) |
allows us to locate things on the surface of earth with extraordinary accuracy |
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geocaching |
use their GPS units, and play a treasure hunt to gain prizes |
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relative location |
describes a location using other human and physical features |
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mental map |
maps in our brain even if we've only herd of them |
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activity spaces |
places we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity |
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generalized map |
map of general trends |
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remote sensing |
technology that gathers data at a distance from Earth's surface |
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geographic information systems (GIS) |
a device that compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the enviornment |
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rescale |
involvment of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative |
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formal region |
shared cultural trait or a phisical trait |
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functional region |
particuar set of of activites or interactctions that occur within it |
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perceptual regions |
a set of opinions one has of a particular region |
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culture |
all-encompassing term that indentifies not only the whole tangible lifestyle of peoples, but also their prevailing values and beliefs |
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cultural complex |
a combination of cultual traits |
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cultural hearth |
area where cultual traits develop |
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cultural trait |
single attribute of a culture |
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independent invention |
when a cultural trait devlopes more than one hearth withoutbeing influencing by its devlopement elsewhere, each hearth operates as a case of a independent invention |
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cultural diffusion |
when ideas, people, or good move across space |
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time-distance decay |
the farther a place is from a heart, the harder it is for diffusion to occur |
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cultural barriers |
powerful prohibiters of cultural diffusion |
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expansion diffusion |
an idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading onward |
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contagious diffusion |
when an idea spreads everyone is affected |
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hierarchical diffusion |
when an idea spreads it is only adopted through ranks |
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stimulus diffusion |
not all the idea is adopted but, the concept is still there |
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relocation diffusion |
the actual movement of indivisuals that have already adopted a idea who carry it to a new place |
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environmental determinism |
human behavior, indivisually and collectively, is strongly affected by, even controlled or determined by, the physical enviornment |
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possibilism |
choices that society makes dependon what its members need and on what tecnology is available to them |
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cultural ecology |
an area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaption and thealturation of the enviornment |
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political ecology |
fundementally concerned with the enviornmental consequences ofdominant poltical economic arrangements and understandings |
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geographic concepts |
location, diffusion, culture, landscape, and region |
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sequent occupance |
societies leave their cultural imprints on a place
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