Geography Concepts and Terminology

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Scale is…

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the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

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The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?

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Cultural Landscape

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The idea that one's environment is responsible for who people are and how they live

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Environmental Determinism

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Centers of innovation and invention, the cradle of a culture.

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Hearth

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The science of making maps

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cartography

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Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as

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possibilism

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Cell phones have contributed to

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time-space compression

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The diminished importance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

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Distance Decay

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The school is at 1500 N. Cummings Dr.

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Absolute Location

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My house is next to highway 67.

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Relative Location