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  2. Human geography - Wikipedia

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    Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...

  3. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    For example, Albany, New York is roughly 140 miles north of New York City. Every site on Earth has a unique absolute location, which can be identified with a reference grid (such as latitude and longitude). Maps and globes can be used to find location and can also be used to convey other types of geographical information.

  4. Geography - Wikipedia

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    [4] [25] Human geography largely focuses on the built environment and how humans create, view, manage, and influence space. [25] Physical geography examines the natural environment and how organisms, climate, soil, water, and landforms produce and interact. [26] The difference between these approaches led to the development of integrated ...

  5. Four traditions of geography - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [5] [8] It requires an understanding of the traditional aspects of physical and human geography, like how human societies conceptualize the environment. Integrated geography has emerged as a bridge between human and physical geography due to the increasing specialization of the two sub-fields, or branches.

  6. Location - Wikipedia

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    An icon representing the concept of location. In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface.The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.

  7. Category:Human geography - Wikipedia

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    Geography and wealth; Geography of Australian rules football; Geography of chess; Geography of disability; Geography of firefighting; Geography of food; Geography of Halloween; Geography of kendo; Geography of media and communication; Geography of association football; Geography of netball; Geography of rugby league; Geography of toll roads ...

  8. Distance decay - Wikipedia

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    In practice, it is often parameterized to fit a specific situation, such as I = A ( d + B ) k , {\displaystyle I={\frac {A}{(d+B)^{k}}},} in which the constant A is a vertical stretching factor, B is a horizontal shift (so that the curve has a y-axis intercept at a finite value), and k is the decay power.

  9. AP Human Geography - Wikipedia

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    The first section consists of 60 multiple choice questions and the second section consists of 3 free-response questions. The sections are 60 and 75 minutes long, respectively. It is not necessary to answer the free-response questions in essay form; instead, points are awarded on certain keywords, examples, and other vital aspects.