| A | B |
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| Distance Decay | trailing off of a phenomenon as spatial distance increases |
| Space-Time Compression | the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place |
| Network | a chain of communication that connects places |
| Uneven Development | the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy |
| Renewable resource | something in nature that people find useful that is produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans |
| Nonrenewable resource | something in nature that people find useful that is produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans |
| Sustainability | the use of Earth's resources by humans that ensure resource availability in the future |
| Atmosphere | thin layer of gases surrounding Earth |
| Hydrosphere | all of the water on and near Earth's surface |
| Lithosphere | Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust |
| Biosphere | all living organisms on Earth |
| Climate | long-term, average weather condition in a particular location |
| Cultural ecology | the geographic study of human-environment relationships |
| Environmental Determinism | the theory that the physical environment CAUSES cultural development and social interactions amongst people in a geographic area |
| Possibilism | a rejection of Environmental Determinism; the theory that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment and that people choose a course of action from many different choices present in a site |
| Polder | a piece of and that is created by draining water from an area (an example of humans modifying the natural environment) |
