Spatial patterns refer to how things are grouped or arranged on the Earth’s surface.
Imagine your bedroom. The way you arrange your furniture - bed here, desk there, chair in that corner - creates a spatial pattern. Similarly, cities, forests, rivers etc., all create different spatial patterns on Earth's surface.
Distribution: The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.
Density: The frequency with which something occurs in space is density; it could be people in a country or trees in a forest.
Concentration: The extent of spread over space; whether close together or dispersed.
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