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The migration of Christianity with European settlers who came to America
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Relocation Diffusion example
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Hinduism started in Northern India and spread through the entire Indian subcontinent absorbing other beliefs and practices as it spread. Hindu Missionaries carried the faith oversees
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Contagious Diffusion example
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Buddhism started in the Ganges Plain as an offshoot of Hinduism but dispersed further throughout the Indian subcontinent and Asia too
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Contagious Diffusion example
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During colonial era, hundreds of thousands of Indians were transported to other contries including Africa, Carribean and South America, spreading Hinduism far beyond it's orginial core
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Relocation Diffusion example
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when missionaries attempted to convert kings or tribal leaders in the hopes their people would follow
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Hierarchical Diffusion example
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Monks were important in the spread of Christianity around Europe
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Contagious Diffusion example
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describe appearance of a place; Example: Yellow River, China
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Descriptive
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associating name w/ something in that place; Example: Balkan Mine, Michigan
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Associative
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in honor of; Example: San Francisco, California San Jose, Puerto Rico St. Augustine, Florida
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Commemorative
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praise of place( saying something nice); Example: Paradisa Valley, Arizona Golden Hill Park (Indianapolis, IN)
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Commendatory
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events that happened there; Example: Magenta, Italy (after the battle known as the Battle of Magenta) Fort Ben Harrison State Park (Indianapolis, IN)
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Incidents
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named after person(not big in history); Example: Johnson City, Texas Nashville, TN
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Possession
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made up names; Example: Boring, Oregon
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Manufactured
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names that are messed up, misunderstandings; Example: West Indies (not west of the Indies and not the Indies)
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Mistakes
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relocated names; Example: Athens (Greece and Texas), Palestine (Middle East and Texas), New Mexico (settlers from Mexico named their new home after their previous home),New England
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Shift Names
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place has 2 names that mean the same thing; Example: Mountain Maungauni (Maunga is Mountain in Maori)
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Double Names
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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
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Agricultural Density
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The total number of people divided by the total land area
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Arithmetic Density
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An east-west line designed under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States
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Base line
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The science of making maps
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Cartography
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The spread of something over a given area
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Concentration
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Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
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Connections
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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
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Contagious diffusion
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Geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationship
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Cultural Ecology
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Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
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Cultural Landscape
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The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
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Culture
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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
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Density
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The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
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Diffusion
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The diminishing of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
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Distance decay
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The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
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Distribution
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A nineteenth and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical science. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
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Environmental Determinism
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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
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Expansion Diffusion
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An area which everything shares in one or more distinctive characteristics.
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Formal Region (or uniform or homogenous region)
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An area organized around a node or focal point
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Functional Region (or nodal region)
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A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic date
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Geographic Information System (GIS)
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A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations and receivers
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
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Action of processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
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Globalization
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The time in that zone encompassing the prime meridian or 0 degree longitude
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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
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The region from which innovative ideas originate
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Hearth
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The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or place
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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An arc that for the most part follow 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross it heading east (towards America), the clock moves back 24 hours or one entire day. When you go west (towards Asia), the calender moves ahead one day.
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International Date Line
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A law that divided much of the United States into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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The numbering systems used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
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Latitude
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The position of anything on Earth's surface.
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Location
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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian
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Longitude
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A two-dimensional, or flat representation of Earth's surface or portion of it
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Map
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A representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located
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Mental Map
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An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles
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Meridian
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A circle drawn around the globe that is in line with the equator and at right angles is in line with the meridians
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Parallel
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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area
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Pattern
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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
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Physiological Density
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A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character
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Place
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Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area
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Polder
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The theory that 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
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Possibilism
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The meridian, designated as 0 degrees longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England
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Prime Meridian
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A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States
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Principal Meridian
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The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map
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Projection
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An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features
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Region
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An approach to geography the emphasizes the relationships among among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area
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Regional (or cultural landscape) Studies
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The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
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Relocation Diffusion
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The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planets or from other long-distance methods
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Remote Sensing
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A substance in the environment that is useful to people is economically and technologically feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use
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Resource
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Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of the an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's Surface
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Scale
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A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections
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Section
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The physical character of a place
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Site
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The location of a place relative to another place
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Situation
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The physical gap or interval between two objects
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Space
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The reduction in the time it takes yo diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems
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Space-Time Compression
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The spreads of an underlying principle even through a specific characteristic is rejected
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Stimulus Diffusion
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The name given to a portions of Earth's surface
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Toponym
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A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into these
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Township
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A company that conducts research, operation factories, and sells products in many countries not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located
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Transnational Corporation
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The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of golbalization of the economy
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Uneven Development
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An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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Vernacular Region(or perceptual region)
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Is the study of where and why human activities are located where they are - for example, regions, businesses, and cities.
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Human Geography
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Studies where and why natural forces occur as they do - for example, climate, landforms, and types of vegetation
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Physical Geography
