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Geography
9th Grade
12/09/2011

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Human Geography
Definition
The study of how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with eachother in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our locality, region and world
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Globalization
Definition
a set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships,and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders. It is also
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Fieldwork
Definition
when geographers go out into the field and see what people are doing and observe people's actions and reactions and how they vary across space
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Physical Geography
Definition
The study of physical phenomena on Earth
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Spatial Perspective
Definition
what Human and Physical Geographers to study the spatial arrangement of places and phenomena, how they are laid out, organized and arranged on the earth.
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Pandemic
Definition
worldwide outbreak of disease
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Medical Geography
Definition
mapping the distribution of a disease. Is used to determine the origin of the sickness
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Epidemic
Definition
reigional outbreak of disease
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5 themes of geography
Definition
Location, Human-Environment interactions,region,place,and movement
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Location
Definition
how the geographical position of people and things on Earths surface affects what happens and why
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Human environment interactions
Definition
literally how humans and the environment interact
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sense of place
Definition
when people infuse a place with a feeling of emotion
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Movement
Definition
the mobility of people,goods and ideas across the surface of the planet
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Distance
Definition
the measured physical space between 2 places
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accessibility
Definition
The ease of reaching one location from another
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connectivity
Definition
the degree of linkage between locations in a network
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landscape
Definition
refers to the material character of a place, the complex of natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place a particular form
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cultural landscape
Definition
the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
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sequent occupance
Definition
refers to the sequential imprants of occupants, whose impacts are layered one on top of the other
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Reference Maps
Definition
locations of places and geographical features. (Absolute locations)
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Thematic maps
Definition
Contain: Degree of an altitude, pattern of distrution, movement, and relative locations.
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Absolute location
Definition
lat. and long. EXACT.
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relative location
Definition
location in relation to something else, changes over time with certain circumstances.
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mental maps
Definition
maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and places we have heard of
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activity spaces
Definition
the places we trabel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity
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Formal reigion
Definition
defined by a common characteristic; whether physical or cultural, present throughout.
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perceptual reigion
Definition
ideas in our minds, based on accumulated knowledge of places and regions that define an area of "sameness" or "connectedness"
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culture
Definition
the whole, tangible lifestyle of people, but also their prevailing values and beliefs
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Cultural Trait
Definition
a single attribute of culture
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cultural complex
Definition
a combination of traits
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cultural hearth
Definition
areas where culture began and from which it spreads
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Independent invention
Definition
a culture trait that began in several places
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diffusion
Definition
the process of the spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth to other areas
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Expansion diffusion
Definition
idea or innovation spreading outward from the hearth
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contagious diffusion
Definition
spreads to next avaliable person
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hierarchal diffusion
Definition
spreads to most linked people or places first
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Stimulus
Definition
Promotes local
experiment or change
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Relocation diffusion
Definition
movement of individuals who carry an idea or innovation with them to a new locale
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