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1
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Vernacular Region

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How people think about a region like the south.

2
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Toponym

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the name of a place on earths surface.

3
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Hearths

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collection of books and journals in economics.

4
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Hierarchical Diffusion

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spread of a tradition from one key person to other people.

5
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Globalization

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Change of culture and ideas.

6
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GPS

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Satellite navigation system that gives location and time info in all weather conditions.

7
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GIS

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System that captures, store, analyze, manage, and present all kinds of geographic data.

8
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friction of distance

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as the distance from a point increases, the interactions with that point decreases.

9
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Time zones

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A region where the standard times the same.

10
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Formal Region

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A uniform area where they all share a common attribute like language, climate, or political system.

11
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Equator

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A line that goes around the globe through the center.

12
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Environmental Determinism

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The view that the physical environment sets limits on human environment.

13
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Distribution

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the arrangement of something across earths surface.

14
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Distance Decay

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the disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

15
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Diffusion

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One of several transport phenomena that occur in nature.

16
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Density

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How compact an object is.

17
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culture

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Different ways people live their life.

18
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Cultural landscape

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combined work of nature and land.

19
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Uneven Development

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The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of globalization.

20
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Stimulus diffusion

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A person gets a culture element from someone else but gives it in a different way or a characteristic is rejected.

21
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Site

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Physical character of a place.

22
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Robinson Projection

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a world map that solved the problem of showing the globe flat and instead showed it circular.

23
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Scale

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tool that tells distance on a map.

24
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Remote Sensing

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Data about earth surface from a satellite.

25
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Relocation Diffusion

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Spread of a idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

26
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Projection

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The scientific method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map.

27
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Possibilism

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The environment sets certain limits, and culture is determined by social conditions.

28
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Mercator Projection

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Map projection by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator and was the standard because it represents lines of constant course.

29
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Lattitude and longitude

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latitude-parallel lines that specify the north-south position of a point on Earths surface.
longitude-numbering system that tell the east-west position of a point Earths surface.

30
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Cartography

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Production of maps

31
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Contagious Diffusion

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Trait spreading across a region like a disease.

32
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Expansion Diffusion

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Spread of an idea in a area in which it grows larger continuously.

33
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International Date line

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Imaginary line that runs from the North pole to the South Pole.when you go to the east or west time moves back an hour or forward an hour.

34
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Functional Region

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A place that relies on the core of the big city for the most part.

35
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Space-time compression

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The reduction of time it takes to diffuse something to a place, as a result of improved transportation.

36
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Prime Meridian

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A line of 0 degrees longitude and it divides the earth in half into the eastern and western hemispheres and passes through England.

37
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Cultural Ecology

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The study of culture and physical environments.

38
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Situation

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The location of a place relative to other places.

39
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Geography

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The studies of lands, features, the people, and Earth features.

40
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Human Geography

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The studies of the world, its people, communities and their culture, and relations of space and place.