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| Human Geography | a political/cultural branch of geography concerned with the social science aspects of how the world is physically arranged |
| Physical Geography | the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, as landforms, drainage features, climates, soils, and vegetation |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface. |
| Density | The frequency with which something exists within a given area |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area |
| Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area |
| Site | The physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant (For more on Site & Situation |
| Situation | The location of a place relative to other places |
| Absolute Location | Position on Earth’s surface using the coordinate system of longitude (that runs from North to South Pole) and latitude (that runs parallel to the equator). |
| Relative location | Position on Earth’s surface relative to other features |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition. |
| Environmental Determinism | A 19th- and early 20th-century 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 o f how the physical environment caused human activities |
| Possiblism | The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment. |
| Scale (map scale) | Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance, indicated on a map as a bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement. |
| Globalization | idea that the world is becoming integrated on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete |
| Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agri. |
| Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area |
| Base Line | An east-west line designated under Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| Cartography | The science of making maps |
| Connections | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
| Cultural Ecology | Geographic approach that emphasized human-environment relationships |
| Cultural Landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
| Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance adn eventual disapperance of something with increasing distance from its origin. |
