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Vocabulary flashcards covering spatial patterns, land-survey systems, population densities, and diffusion concepts from the lecture notes.

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Cluster

A grouping of objects or phenomena close together on Earth’s surface.

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Agglomeration

Intentional clustering of activities or things around a central point or economic growth pole.

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Random Pattern

A spatial distribution that shows no identifiable order or logic.

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Scattered Distribution

Objects that are ordinarily ordered but appear widely dispersed over an area.

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Linear Pattern

A spatial arrangement in a straight line.

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Sinuous Pattern

A spatial arrangement that follows a wavy or curving line.

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Land Survey Pattern

The layout method used to divide land that later influences property lines and political boundaries.

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Metes and Bounds

Pre-1830s land survey method that used natural landscape features as boundaries.

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Township and Range System

Rectilinear survey grid based on lines of latitude and longitude.

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Long Lot Pattern

Lots with narrow frontage on a road or waterway extending far back in a long, thin shape.

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Arithmetic Density

Number of items or people per square unit of total land area.

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Physiological Density

Number of people per square unit of arable (farmable) land.

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Agricultural Density

Number of farmers per square unit of arable land.

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Diffusion Pattern

The manner in which human phenomena spread across Earth’s surface.

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Hearth

The point of origin or place where an innovation first appears.