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AP Test Today!!!!!

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Models Quiz
 
Please reference the comprehensive models handout I gave you at the beginning of the review period.
 
All answers will be the names of models.

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Quiz on Important People and their models.  See the attached list.
 
All of your answers will be people's names.

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Urbanization
 
Please print out, complete, and bring to class the attached quiz.

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Agriculture
 
Please print out, complete, and bring to class the attached quiz.

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Industrialization and Economic Development
 
Please print out, complete and bring to class the attached quiz.

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Politics
 
Please print out, complete, and bring to class the attached quiz.

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Culture
 
Please print out, complete, and bring to class the attached quiz.

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Population Review
 
Please print out and complete the attached quiz on population.

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Introduction Review
 
Please print out and complete the attached quiz and bring it with you to class.

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2 Country HW for Urbanization due on the day of the test.

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Doing Human Geography homework
 
Make sure you select one that is different from your previous selection this semester.

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Note cards due for your final chapter!!!!
 
Urbanization
 
 

READ Chapter 13 in Rubenstein pages 437-469 .
READ Chapters 21-23 in de Blij Pages 315-363

Complete the following Key Terms:

 

  1. Annexation (R)
  2. Census tract (R)
  3. Council of government (R)
  4. Density gradient (R)
  5. Disamenity Sector (D)
  6. Feudal City (D)
  7. Filtering (R)
  8. Gentrification (R)
  9. Greenbelt (R)
  10. Hinterland (D)
  11. Manufacturing City (D)
  12. Mercantile City (D)
  13. Metropolitan statistical area (R)
  14. Micropolitan statistical area (R)
  15. Modern City (D)
  16. Multiplier Effect (D)
  17. Nucleation (D)
  18. Preindustrial City (D)
  19. Primate City (D)
  20. Public housing (R)
  21. Rank-size Rule (D)
  22. Redlining (R)
  23. Smart Growth (R)
  24. Sprawl (R)
  25. Squatter Settlement (R)
  26. Stratified Society (D)
  27. Sunbelt (D)
  28. Theocratic Center (D)
  29. Underclass (R)
  30. Urban Renewal (R)
  31. Urbanized Area (R)
  32. Zoning Ordinance (R)

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Doing Human Geography homework
 
Make sure you select one that is different from your previous selection this semester.

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Test - Industrialization

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FRQ Choices
 
#1 - Rostow/Wallerstein Models compared and contrasted
 
#2 - Agglomeration and Technology Poles
 
#3 - Industrial Location 

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Test correction papers are due.  No late work is accepted.

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Read Chapter 9 on Development in Rubenstein

Read Chapters 24, 25, 26 in De Blij


Write out the following Key Terms on note cards:

  1. Agglomeration (D)
  2. Comparative Advantage (D)
  3. Core-Periphery Model (D)
  4. Dependency Theory (D)
  5. Developed Country (D)
  6. Developing Country (D)
  7. Distance Decay (D)
  8. Friction of Distance (D)
  9. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) (R)
  10. Gender Empowerment Index (GEM) (R)
  11. GNP (Gross National Product) (D)
  12. Human Development Index (HDI) (R)
  13. Infrastructure (D)
  14. LCD (Less Developed Country) (R)
  15. Least Cost Theory (D)
  16. Liberal Model (D)
  17. Literacy Rate (R)
  18. Maquiladora (D)
  19. MDC (More Developed Country) (R)
  20. Modernization Model (D)
  21. NAFTA (D)
  22. Neo-colonialism (D)
  23. Peripheral Region (D)
  24. Raw Materials (D)
  25. Semi-Peripheral Region (D)
  26. Special Economic Zone (D)
  27. Structuralist Model (D)
  28. Substitution Principles (D)
  29. Variable Cost (D)
  30. World Systems Theory (D)

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FRQ today
 
Here are your topics:
 
1.)  Shifting cultivation
2.)  Von Thunen
3.)  Organic Farming
4.)  Global Network of coffee production
 

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Doing Human Geography homework
 
Make sure you select one that is different from your previous selection this semester.

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2 Country assignment (both attached files are the same, just different formats)
 
Agriculture Unit.
 

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Test Agriculture/Rural Life

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Note cards for your next chapter are due.      
 
Agriculture Unit!!!!!!! Sow those seeds! (Your next test will be on 2/19/16)

Read chapter 10!!!!!!! in Rubenstein
Read chapters 18, 19, 20!!!!!! in de Blij

Complete the following vocab terms (write them out by hand. No typing)

  1. Animal domestication (D)
  2. Cadastral system (D)
  3. Chaff (R)
  4. Desertification (R)
  5. First Agricultural Revolution (D)
  6. Green Revolution (R)
  7. Horticulture (R)
  8. Hull (R)
  9. Long-lot survey (D)
  10. Luxury crops (D)
  11. Maladaptive diffusion (D)
  12. Metallurgy (D)
  13. Milkshed (R)
  14. Nucleated settlement (D)
  15. Organic agriculture (D)
  16. Paddy (R)
  17. Pastoral nomadism (R)
  18. Pasture (R)
  19. Primogeniture (D)
  20. Reaper (R)
  21. Rectangular land survey (D)
  22. Ridge tillage (R)
  23. Sawah (R)
  24. Second Agricultural Revolution (D)
  25. Spring wheat (R)
  26. Swidden (R)
  27. Thresh (R)
  28. Township-and-range system (D)
  29. Wattle (D)
  30. Wet rice (R)
  31. Winnow (R)
  32. Winter wheat (R)
                              

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2 Country assignment (both attached files are the same, just different formats)

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Doing Human Geography homework

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Test, political geography

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Here are your FRQ options (I will pick one in class for you to write on).  No notes, phones, books, or partners.  Just your brain, a piece of paper, and a writing instrument.
 

1.) The viability of any state depends on a balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces.

Define the concepts “centripetal force” and “centrifugal force”.

Give a specific example of and explain a centripetal force that affects the viability of any of the states shown on the map above.

With reference to a different specific example, explain a centrifugal force that affects the viability of any of the states shown on the map above. (I will be giving you a map to go with this question).

 

2.)  Define the following as they are used in political geography:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain the purpose of one of these walls.

Discuss the consequences of these walls in terms of social or political, economic, and environmental.

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Note Cards due for the unit on political geography.
 
Boundary
Centrifugal Force
Centripetal Force
City-State *
Colonialism
Colony
Devolution
Enclave
Ethnonationalism
European Union
Exclave
Exclusive Economic Zone
Federal State
Forward Capital
Frontier
Geopolitic
Gerrymandering
Globalization
Heartland Theory
Imperialism
Landlocked State *
Law of the Sea
Merian-Line Principle
Microstate * 
Multicore State *
Nation
Relict Boundary
Rimland
Sovereignty
State
Supranationalism
Theocracy
Unitary State
 
* = need a state example (know what a state is)

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Final Exam on the following chapters:
Introduction
Population
Culture - Pop and Folk, Language, Religion, Ethnicity
 
Study Guide to follow soon!

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Cultural Food Day Extra Credit
 
In order to earn Extra Credit, you must do each of the following
 
1.) Select a food that is different from  everyone else who is bringing food.
2.) Write a paragraph that explains what the food is, where it comes from, and how it is significant to your family, ethnic group, or religion.
3.) Bring the food to class and present what you have brought to the class.  No prepackaged foods.

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Test corrections due for the previous chapter.

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Remember your 2 countries?  Here is your culture part for the 2 countries assignment.

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You will need to complete a different Doing Human Geography section then you did for the last chapter.
Pleases relate it to either the chapter on Religion or the chapter on Ethnicity.
 
Do not just provide some random examples that are not related to these 2 chapters in some way.

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Test on religion and ethnicity

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Religion Discovery Due
Each person signed up for a religion in class.  If you did not sign up for a religion, please see me.

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Ethnicity Time!!!!!

Read the chapter in Rubenstein on Ethnicity (Ch. 7)

Complete the following Key Terms (all terms are in Rubenstein)

  1. Apartheid
  2. Balkanization
  3. Blockbusting
  4. Ethnic Cleansing
  5. Multi-Ethnic State
  6. Multinational State
  7. Nationalism
  8. Sharecropper

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Test correction papers are due by Friday.  No late work is accepted.

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Its Religion Week!  Read Chapter 6 in Rubenstein (pages 185-222) and Chapters 11-13 in Blij (pages 153-198)  Complete the following definitions (I have even put in parenthesis the book eachdefinition can be found in - R=Purple Rubenstein, D=Yellow De Blij):  
  1. Animism (R)
  2. Caste (R)
  3. Confucianism (D)
  4. Ethnic religion (R)
  5. Fundamentalism (R)
  6. Ghetto (R)
  7. Hierarchical religion (R)
  8. Jainism (D)
  9. Monotheism (R)
  10. Polytheism (R)
  11. Reincarnation (D)
  12. Secularism (D)
  13. Shamanism (D)
  14. Shiite (D)
  15. Shintoism (D)
  16. Sunni (D)
  17. Syncretic religion (D)
  18. Taoism (D)
  19. Universalizing religion (R)
  20. Untouchables (D)
  21. Zoroastianism (D)

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You will need to complete a different Doing Human Geography section then you did for the last chapter.  Pleases relate it to either the chapter on Language or the chapter on Popular and Folk culture.

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Next Test Language and Popular and Folk Culture

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Words to know for the test 
  1. Language Patterns
  2. Agriculture Theory
  3. Amerind
  4. British Received Pronunciation
  5. Colonization
  6. Conquest Theory
  7. Creole   
  8. Dialect
  9. Diffusion
  10. Ebonics
  11. Economic Development Model
  12. Endangered Language
  13. Esperanto
  14. Extinct Language
  15. Franglais 
  16. Ideograms
  17. Imperialization
  18. Isogloss
  19. Isolated Language
  20. Language 
  21. Language and Religion
  22. Language Convergence
  23. Language Divergence
  24. Language Family 
  25. Language Tree
  26. Lingua Franca
  27. 7 important Lingua Francas and where they exist
  28. Monolingual State
  29. Multilingual State
  30. Nostratic
  31. Official Language
  32. Pidgin
  33. Social Morale Model
  34. Spanglish
  35. Standard Language
  36. Toponymy
  37. Vulgar Latin
  38. Why Geographers study Language
  39. Pop
  40. Folk
  41. Custom
  42. Habit
  43. Taboo

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Read Chapter 5 in Rubenstein pages 147-182
Read Chapters 8, 9, 10 in Blij on pages 112-149
That is only a total of 72 pages (including all of the graphs and charts) in 1 week (11 pages per day).

Complete Vocabulary: (For each starred (***) Vocab word, please list a country or language that this can be applied to.)
  1. Agriculture Theory *** (D)
  2. Amerind (D)
  3. British Received Pronunciation (R)
  4. Conquest Theory *** (D)
  5. Creole (R)
  6. Ebonics (R)
  7. Esperanto (D)
  8. Extinct Language*** (D)
  9. Franglais (R)
  10. Ideograms (R)
  11. Isolated Language*** (R)
  12. Language (R)
  13. Language Convergence
  14. Language Divergence
  15. Language Family (R)
  16. Language Tree
  17. Monolingual State*** (D)
  18. Multilingual State*** (D)
  19. Nostratic (D)
  20. Official Language (R)
  21. Spanglish (R)
  22. Standard Language (R)
  23. Toponymy (D)
  24. Vulgar Latin (R)

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Here is the list of countries that each student chose:
 
Jonathan B - Ireland, Finland
Nicolette C. - Armenia, Venezuela
Cho C. - Afghanistan, Kazakhstan
Cecilia C. - Russia, Costa Rica
Gaurav C. - India, Taiwan
Sophia C. - Haiti, Tanzania
Marianne D. - Italy, Slovakia
Maria E. - Jamaica, Philippines
Leticia F. - Morocco, Hungary
Edison F. - China, Kenya
Arlene G. - Bangladesh, Chile
Kimberly G. - Greece, Angola
Sofia G. - Mexico, Scotland
Isidora G. - Bulgaria, South Africa
Malia H. - Japan, Lebanon
David H. - Colombia, Qatar
Marziiah H. - Iran, Turkey
Candice K. - South Korea, Uganda
Claire K. - Austria, Denmark
Sharon L. - Romania, Argentina
Justine L. - Spain, Ukraine
Naweed M. - Switzerland, New Zealand
Jesse M. - Dominican Republic, Portugual
Erik M. - England, Uzbekistan
Caden N. - Germany, Court de l'ivoire
Andrew N. - Nepal, Mongolia
Eric O. - Cuba, Netherlands
Edgar P. - France, Sweden
Malachi P. - Zimbabwe, Madagascar
Jake S. - Egypt, Cambodia
Mariah T. - Brazil, Ethiopia
Joseph T. - Nigeria, Australia
Stacie T. - Poland, Norway
Annie T. - Canada, Iceland

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Study Guide for your next test

Population and Migration Terms to Know

  1. Aging Population
  2. Antinatalist Policies
  3. Arithmetic density
  4. Asylum Seekers
  5. Brain Drain
  6. Carrying Capacity
  7. Census
  8. Chain Migration
  9. Circular Migration (Return Migration)
  10. Consequences of Migration
  11. Counterurbanization
  12. Crude birth rate
  13. Crude death rate
  14. Demographic transition model
  15. Demography
  16. Density
  17. Dependency ratio
  18. Deportation
  19. Distribution
  20. Doubling time
  21. Ecumene
  22. Emigration
  23. Epidemiologic transition model
  24. Exponential growth
  25. Forced Migration
  26. Gender Development Index
  27. Gender Empowerment Measure
  28. Genocide
  29. Gravity Model
  30. Human Development Index
  31. Human Factors of Migration
  32. Infant mortality rate
  33. Interregional Migration
  34. Internal migration
  35. Internally Displaced Person
  36. Intervening Obstacle
  37. Intervening Opportunity
  38. Life expectancy
  39. Linear growth
  40. Malthusian Theory
  41. Medical Revolution
  42. Megalopolis
  43. Migration
  44. Migration Stream
  45. Natural increase rate
  46. Neo-Malthusian
  47. Net Migration
  48. Overpopulation
  49. Natality
  50. Pandemic
  51. Permanent Refugees
  52. Physical Factors of Migration
  53. Physiological density
  54. 3 major population clusters
  55. Population composition
  56. Population explosion
  57. Population pyramid
  58. Population structure
  59. Pronatalist Policies
  60. Pull Factors
  61. Push Factors
  62. Quotas
  63. Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
  64. Refugee
  65. Remittances
  66. Repatriation
  67. Seasonal Migration
  68. Sex ratio
  69. Spatial Interaction
  70. Standard of Living
  71. Stationary population level
  72. Step Migration
  73. Total fertility rate
  74. Transhumance
  75. Transnational Migration
  76. Transmigration
  77. Undocumented Immigrants
  78. Voluntary Migration
  79. Zero population growth

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Your 2 countries assignment for the Chapter on Population - due on the day of the next Unit Test.

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You will need to complete a different Doing Human Geography section then you did for the last chapter.  Pleases relate it to either the chapter on Population or the chapter on Migration.

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Create your own population pyramid is due - handout given in class.

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If you want to get ahead....

The Chapter on Migration will be on your next test with the chapter on Population.

Read Chapter 3 in Rubenstein

Read Chapter 6 in Blij

Write out by hand the following vocab words and terms:

  1. Brain drain
  2. Chain migration
  3. Emigration
  4. Guest Worker
  5. Internal migration
  6. International migration
  7. Interregional migration
  8. Intervening obstacle
  9. Intervening opportunity
  10. Net migration
  11. Permanent refugees
  12. Quotas
  13. Seasonal movement
  14. Step migration
  15. Undocumented immigrants
  16. Voluntary migration
  17. Cyclic movement
  18. Counterubanization

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Test correction papers are due by Friday.  No late work is accepted.

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Read Chapter 2 Rubenstein

Read Chapters 4 and 5 in Blij

This chapter is should be much easier to understand due to the fact that there is a central focus, unlike chapter 1.

Define the following terms. All hand written, please.

  1. Agricultural Density
  2. Arithmetic density (R)
  3. Census (R)
  4. Crude birth rate (R)
  5. Crude death rate (R)
  6. Dependency ratio (R)
  7. Doubling time (R)
  8. Ecumene (R)
  9. Epidemiologic transition model (R)
  10. Infant mortality rate (R)
  11. Life expectancy (R)
  12. Medical Revolution
  13. Natural increase rate (R)
  14. Neo-Malthusian (D)
  15. Overpopulation (R)
  16. Pandemic (R)
  17. Physiological Density
  18. Population explosion (D)
  19. Sex ratio (R)
  20. Total fertility rate (R)
  21. Zero population growth (R)

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Geography it Nature and Perspectives – Important Terms to know for the test

 

  1. Absolute Location
  2. Acculturation
  3. Agricultural density
  4. Area
  5. Arithmetic density
  6. Barriers to Diffusion
  7. Boundary
  8. Cartography
  9. Concentration
  10. Contagious diffusion
  11. Core
  12. Cultural landscape
  13. Culture
  14. Culture region
  15. Culture trait
  16. Diffusion
  17. Distance decay
  18. Distribution
  19. Environmental determinism
  20. Expansion diffusion
  21. Formal region
  22. Functional region
  23. Geographic Information System (GIS)
  24. Geographic invention
  25. Geographic realm
  26. Geomancy
  27. Global Positioning System (GPS)
  28. Globalization
  29. Greenwich Mean Time
  30. Hagerstrand
  31. Hearth
  32. Hierarchical diffusion
  33. International Date line
  34. Land Ordinance of 1785
  35. Landscape
  36. Latitude
  37. Location
  38. Longitude
  39. Map
  40. Mental map
  41. Meridian
  42. Movement
  43. Parallel
  44. Pattern
  45. Perceptual region
  46. Periphery
  47. Physical geography
  48. Physical region
  49. Physiological density
  50. Place
  51. Possibilism
  52. Prime meridian
  53. Principal meridian
  54. Projection Maps
  55. Region
  56. Regionalization
  57. Relative location
  58. Relocation diffusion
  59. Remote sensing
  60. Resource
  61. Scale
  62. Sequent occupance
  63. Site
  64. Situation
  65. Space
  66. Space-time compression
  67. Spatial perspective
  68. Stimulus diffusion
  69. Time Distance Decay
  70. Time Space Compression
  71. Toponym
  72. Toponym Types in the U.S.
  73. Transculturation
  74. Vernacular region
  75. World Regions

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Attached you will find the first assignment to complete with your two countries that we selected in class.  This is due on the day of the first test, but don't wait until the last minute!

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Doing Human Geography - due the day of the exam.
 
Your answers must be chapter specific.

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For those who wanted to sign up for Remind.com reminders, here is the info and options....
 
1.) Send a text message to 81010 with the code @earna5 in the message.
2.) send an email to earna5@mail.remind.com
3.) Download the remind.com app from the app store (its free) and the class code is @earna5
 
This service will send out messages that I generate to remind you of important upcoming events. It is a one way service, so you can't send me messages back. If you need to contact me, send an email to [email protected]

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Course Syllabus is attached.
 
Please complete one of the following:
 
Print the syllabus and have your parent sign it and bring that to class.
Have your parent sign a note saying they have read the syllabus.

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Please read the introduction chapter in De Blij (Part 1, Chapters 1-3)
 
While reading, please make note cards for the vocabulary words below.  (Not all words are in this book.  I have a supplementary book if you would like one, just ask).  
 
Note cards should look like this:
 
Front side:
 
Cartography (this is the word on the list)
 
Back side:
 
The science of map making (the definition of the word)
 
Only 1 word per note card, please.
  1. Cartography
  2. Concentration
  3. Contagious diffusion
  4. Culture
  5. Culture region
  6. Culture trait
  7. Densitys
  8. Diffusion
  9. Distance decay
  10. Distribution
  11. Environmental determinism
  12. Expansion diffusion
  13. Formal region
  14. Functional region
  15. Geographic Information System (GIS)
  16. Global Positioning System (GPS)
  17. Globalization
  18. Greenwich Mean Time
  19. Hearth
  20. Hierarchical diffusion
  21. International Date line
  22. Land Ordinance of 1785
  23. Location
  24. Pattern
  25. Possibilism
  26. Projection
  27. Region
  28. Regional Studies
  29. Relative location
  30. Relocation diffusion
  31. Remote Sensing
  32. Sequent occupance
  33. Space
  34. Spatial perspective
  35. Stimulus diffusion
  36. Toponym
  37. Vernacular region