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| Arithmetic Density | The total # of people divided by total land area |
| Agricultural Density | Ratio # of farmers to total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| Cartography | Science of map making |
| Concentration | Spread of something over a given area |
| Contagious Diffusion | Rapid, wide-spread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
| Cultural Ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. |
| Culture | Body of customary beliefs social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition |
| Density | Frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
| Diffusion | Process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
| Distance Decay | Diminishing in importance & eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
| Distribution | Arrangement of something across Earth's surface |
| Environmental Determinism | 19th & early 20th approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities |
| Expansion diffusion | Spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process |
| Formal Region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |
| Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point |
| Geographical Information System | (GIS) A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope |
| Greenwich Mean Time | Time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude |
| Hearth | Region from which innovative ideas originate |
| Hierarchial Diffusion | Spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
| International Date Line | An arc that, for the most part, follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoiding dividing land areas |
| Physiological Density | Number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
| Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area |
| Possibilism | Theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives |
| Projection | System used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map |
| Regional Studies | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social & physical phenomena in a particular study area |
| Relocation Diffusion | Spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another |
| Remote Sensing | Acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods |
| Stimulus Diffusion | Spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
| Time Space compression | Reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
| Toponym | Name given to a portion of Earth's surface |
| Transnational corporation | Company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters, or shareholders are located |
| Uneven development | Increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy |
| Vernacular Region | An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
