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Agricultural Density |
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. |
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Arithmetic Density |
The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
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Base Line |
A line from east to west founded by the Land Ordinance act in order to facilitate the surveying and numbering townships in the US. |
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Cartography |
The scientific process of drawing, recording, and designing maps. |
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Concentration |
Amount of something spread out over in a given area. |
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Connections |
Associations between items and people across a large space. |
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Contagious Diffusion |
The fast spread of a fad or trend throughout a group of people. |
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Cultural Ecology |
Geographical study or view over the relations between people and their given environment. |
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Cultural Landscape |
The fashioning of a landscape by a cultural group. |
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Culture |
Something that pertains to a group of people which includes beliefs, social forms, and material traits. |
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Density |
The frequency which something exists in a given area. |
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Diffusion |
The act of a spread of a fad or a feature from person to person over time. |
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Distance Decay |
When an action/interaction or activity happens less and less and eventually disappears due to distance between people, plants, animals, ect. |
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Distribution |
The arrangement of features or things across a space. |
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Environmental Determinism |
An old approach that argued that the general laws sought out by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. |
An environmental approach that asks how the environment caused social development. |
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Expansion Diffusion |
The spreading of a fad from one place to another in a process that starts out slow but becomes faster as the fad gains popularity. |
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Formal Region |
A region in which all it's inhabitants share common cultural and/or physical characteristics. |
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Functional Region |
A population that is organized or built around a node. |
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Geographic Information System |
A system that deals with geographic data such as storing, analyzing, organizing, and display. |
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Global Positioning System |
A system that can locate anything on earth through a system of satellites. |
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Globalization |
Something that involves the entire world which results the thing to be considered in a world wide scope. |
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Greenwich Mean Time |
A time zone that has 0 degrees in longitude. |
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Hearth |
A place from which innovation comes from. |
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Hierarchical Diffusion |
The spread of an idea or fad from someone of power down to the people below them. |
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International Date Line |
A not-so-straight that mostly follows 180 degrees longitude in which if you cross to the right it increases 24 hr and if you cross to the left it decreases 24 hr. |
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Land Ordinance of 1785 |
A law put out in 1785 which separated most of the US into townships to help with the selling of new land to settlers. |
Caused one of the other vocab terms. |
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Latitude |
A system of degrees of numbers which illustrate the parallels from north to south on a map or globe. |
Flatitude |
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Location |
The point where a certain object, place, or person lies on the Earth's surface. |
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Longitude |
A system of degrees of numbers which illustrate/show the parallels from east to west on a map or globe. |
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