Question 1

Absolute Location

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The exact spot on Earth, like coordinates (latitude & longitude).

Question 2

Accessibility

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How easy it is to reach a place.

Question 3

Cartography

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The science of making maps.

Question 4

Concentration

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Whether something is packed closely together or spread out.

Question 5

Connectivity

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How places are linked together, like roads or the internet.

Question 6

Cultural Landscape

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The visible changes people make to their environment (like cities, farms, or buildings).

Question 7

Density

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How crowded or spread out something is in a certain space.

Question 8

Diffusion

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The way ideas, trends, or objects spread from one place to another.

Question 9

Distance Decay

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The idea that things become less important the farther away they are.

Question 10

Distribution

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How things, like people or resources, are spread out in an area.

Question 11

Ecological Perspective

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How living things interact with their environment.

Question 12

Environmental Determinism

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The idea that nature controls how people live (like climate affecting culture).

Question 13

Formal Region (Uniform Region)

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An area where everyone shares one or more things in common (like a country where everyone follows the same laws).

Question 14

Functional Region (Nodal Region)

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An area that is centered around something important (like a city and its surrounding suburbs).

Question 15

Geographic Information System (GIS)

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A computer tool that stores and analyzes map data.

Question 16

Globalization

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The world becoming more connected through trade, travel, and technology.

Question 17

Map Projection

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A way of drawing Earth’s round surface on a flat map.

Question 18

Network

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A system of connected places or people (like roads, the internet, or businesses).

Question 19

Pattern

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How things are arranged on Earth, like city layouts or farm fields.

Question 20

Physical Geography

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The study of natural features like mountains, rivers, and climate.

Question 21

Place

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A specific area with unique features, like climate, buildings, or culture.

Question 22

Possibilism

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The idea that people can shape their environment and don’t just follow nature’s rules.

Question 23

Region

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A large area that shares common features, like language or climate.

Question 24

Relative Location

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Where a place is in relation to other places.

Question 25

Remote Sensing

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Collecting information about Earth from satellites or drones.

Question 26

Scale

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How much of the Earth we are looking at (small area = large-scale, big area = small-scale).

Question 27

Site

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The physical features of a place (like rivers, mountains, or climate).

Question 28

Situation

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Where a place is compared to other places (like "near the coast" or "next to a big city").

Question 29

Space

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The empty area between two places or objects.

Question 30

Spatial Geography

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How things are arranged in space and how they relate to each other.

Question 31

Time-Space Compression

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How technology makes distances seem smaller (like airplanes and the internet making faraway places feel closer).

Question 32

Toponym

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The name of a place (like "New York" or "Amazon Rainforest").

Question 33

Vernacular Region (Perceptual Region)

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An area that people think of as a region but doesn’t have official borders (like "the South" or "Silicon Valley").

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