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| study of people and cultures |
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| Study of nature, such as climate, soil, animals, etc. |
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| WORLDWIDE outbreak of disease |
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| REGIONAL outbreak of disease |
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| What are the five themes of geography? |
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Location - geographical location of people and places
Human/Environment - how humans cause changes in the environment and visa versa
Region - Features concentrated in a certain area\
Place - labeling or associated a place with certain emotions or traits
Movemnt - mobility of people, goods, services, and ideas. |
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| natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects that gives a place its shape |
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| imprint of human activity on the landscape |
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| allows people to accurately locate themselves by satelite |
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| Geographic information system; used to layer data |
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| describes the location of a place in relation to features around it |
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| Location as measured by latitude and longitude |
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| marked by physical criteria or a shared cultural traits |
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| product of interactions; not necessarily culturally similar |
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| regions without definate boundaries, used in daily life. |
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| single attribute of culture |
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| combinations of cultural traits |
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| an area where cultural traits develop |
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| movement of of people, goods, or ideas accross space |
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| the spread of an idea from its hearth |
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| where nearly all adjacent individuals are affected |
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| the main channel is those who are succeptible to what is being diffused |
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| when one idea stimulates another one. (eg. The Gods Must Be Crazy) |
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| an idea remains strong in its hearth, but also expands outward. |
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| involves the movement of individuals |
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| environmental determinism |
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| idea that environment has great affect on human behavior |
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| Idea that environment meerly limits the choices that are available to a cultural group; may be overcome. |
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| circles of different size show the frequency of occurence of a topic in different places |
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| a single, or specified number of occurences represented by a single dot. |
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| the overall statistic, the whole isoline map |
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| presents the average value of the data studied per pre-existed unit |
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| What are the 3 ways to identify location? |
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| absolute location of a place |
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| What are the 4 kinds of cartographic generalizations? |
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simplification
Classification
Symbolism
Induction |
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| ratio between the distance on a map and its real-world distance |
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| the representation of the earth on a spherical scale |
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| true direction, distorts poles, used to keep accurate course at sea |
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| reduces the distortion of the upper latitudes |
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| good for middle latitudes |
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| connect points of equal pressure |
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| connect points of equal temperature |
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| are the lines that connect isotherms and isobars |
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