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A culture's adaptation to environment

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Cultural ecology definition

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Why humans alter environment

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Cultural ecology example

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Environmental consequences of political- economic arrangements

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Political ecology definition

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Big businesses cutting trees for cities space

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Political ecology example

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The theory that human actions are affected by physical environment

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Environmental determinism definition

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Greece was the ideal climate

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Environmental determinism example

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Outcome of distance on interactions of cultures

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Distance decay definition

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Distance from a hearth

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Distance decay example

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Exact location of a place

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Absolute location definition

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Latitude and longitude coordinates

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Absolute location example

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Using features to describe a place

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Relative location definition

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Hersey is across the street from target

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Relative location example

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Shows geographic features and locations

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reference map definition

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Map of earth

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Reference map example

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Maps in your mind about places you have seen, heard about, or been to

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Mental map definition

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Thinking about what it was like in Italy

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Mental map example

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Locates places on earth's surface

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GPS or Global positioning system definition

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Car navigation system

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GPS example

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Adds emotional feeling to a place

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Sense of place definition

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Bias towards ones hometown

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Sense of place example

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Arrangement of things across the earth

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Spatial distribution definition

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Map of cell towers in a state

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Spatial distribution example

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Where things happen in the world

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Spatial perspective definition

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Map of cholera outbreaks around the world

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Spatial perspective example

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Depends on distances, accesibility, and connectivity

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Spatial interaction definition

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The transportation of food exports from country to country

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Spatial interaction example

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Human activity that impacts the world that is not there naturally/anything made by humans

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Cultural landscape definition

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Buildings, roads, restaurants

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Cultural landscape example

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An outbreak of a world wide disease

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Pandemic definition

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Cholera pandemic in 1816

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Pandemic example

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Cholera epidemic in 1990

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Epidemic example

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Outbreak of disease in region

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Epidemic definition

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Research, interviewing, polling, etc. done in the environment of what is being researched instead of in an office or lab

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Fieldwork definition

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An archaeologist studying the skeleton of a dinosaur, digging up dinosaur bones

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Fieldwork example

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Lines connecting points of equal temperature values

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Isotherm Definition

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Places in the world with equal climates

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Isotherm example

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Natural environment only limits the development of a culture

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Possibilism definition

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The Mayans having a successful culture in a tropical climate.

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Possibilism example

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Cultural impacts in a certain place

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Sequent occupance definition

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Humans bringing technology when they move

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Sequent occupance example

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Connections between places

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Connectivity definition

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People from two different places being friends

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Connectivity example

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Thoughts about places people have that they havent been to

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Perception of place definition

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People from Illinois having bad perceptions about the West Coast

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Perception of place example

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The study of how people around the world live, communicate, and organize themselves and their land

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Human geography definition

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Language,Government, orders, and studying different cultures

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Human geography example

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The study of the natural geographical features and physical phenomena

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Physical geography definition

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Mountains, lakes, rivers

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Physical geography example

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Shed aquarium is in Chicago Illinois

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Five themes of geography:location example

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Cars creating pollution

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Five themes of geography : Human/environment interaction example

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Illinois is in the Midwest region of the United States

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Five themes of geography : region example

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Aruba is warm; Antarctica is cold

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Five themes of geography :place example

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Cars trains buses in big cities

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Five themes of geography :movement example

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Actions that encourage communication from people all over the world, creating relationships, and connecting people from different countries

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Globalization definition

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Global financial markets, social media, and popular culture are some examples of globalization

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Globalization example

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Ideas that affect a local community/impractical for everyone

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Stimulus diffusion definition

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Veggie burger in India

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Stimulus diffusion example

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Movement of people who adopted an idea and bring it with them to spread it

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Relocation diffusion definition

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Migration

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Relocation diffusion example

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Digital accounts of the environment

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G I S/geographic information system definition

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Tells a story of a movement of a geographic phenomena

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Thematic map definition

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Map of tornadoes in the Midwest

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Thematic map example

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show voters parties and the computer will tally it

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GIS example

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Routine places we go

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Activity space definition

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Dunkin' Donuts down the street

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Activity space example

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Monitoring earth from far away

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Remote-sensing definition

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Satellites an aircraft

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Remote-sensing example

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Have similar cultural/physical qualities

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Formal region definition

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French/ spoken in france, parts of canada, and colonies in africa

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Formal region example

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Specific interaction/activities

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Functional region definition

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Shared political, social, economic purpose/urban area with people moving in and out

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Functional region example

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Regions constructed to understand the nature/distribution of human geography phenomena

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Perceptual region definition

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Perceptions of the South

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Perceptual region example

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Single part of a culture

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Cultural trait definition

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Turban in a Muslim society

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Cultural trait example

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Combination of traits in a culture

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Cultural complex definition

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Cattle/many uses around the world

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Cultural complex example

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An area where cultural traits are invented and diffused

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Cultural hearth definition

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Islam founded in 500 CE around Mecca and Medina

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Cultural hearth example

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Rules of what is not acceptable in a culture

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Cultural barriers definition

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Prohibition of alcohol

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Cultural barrier example

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Expansion diffusion in which nearly all people are affected near the place

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Contagious diffusion definition

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Cholera

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Contagious diffusion example

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Spreads to places that are most likely to adopt it

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Hierarchical diffusion definition

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Crocs

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Hierarchical diffusion example

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