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Vocabulary Chap. 1.3
chapter 1.3 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Location | Location based on latitude and longitude coordinates. |
Aristotle and Plato | Greek philosophers who believed the earth was round. |
Cartograms | Maps that assign space by the size of some datum. |
Cartographer | Map makers; they are very concerned with the problem of distortion. |
Concentration | The density of particular phenomena over an area. |
Density | Describes how often an object occurs within a given area or space; most often used in terms of population density. |
Diffusion | Describes the spread or movement of a principle or idea. |
Distribution | The terms comes from the idea that everything on the Earths surface must have a physical location. |
Environmental Determinism | An important development in the field of geography in the early 20th century that stated that human behaviors are a direct result of their environment. |
Formal Region | Regions where anything and everything inside has the same characteristics or phenomena. |
Functional Region | Regions that can be defined around a certain point or node; functional regions are the most intense around the center but lose their characteristics as the distance from the focal point increases. |
GIS | A way for geographers to obtain new information. |
GPS | Global positioning system. Where you are at that point. In cars, for example. |
Geography | The description of the Earths surface and the people and process that shape those landscape. |
Hierarchical Diffusion | The notion that a phenomenon spreads as a result of the social elite, like a politician, famous person, entertainment leaders, spreading societal ideas or trends. |
Latitudes (parallels) | Parallel lines that run east to west on the surface of the earth. |
Longitudes (meridians) | Parallel lines that run north to west on the surface of the earth. |
Pattern | Describing how objects are organized in space, patterns can be anything; triangular, linear, or even 3 dimensional. |
Possiblist | An approach to geography favored by modern geographers that suggest that humans are not a product of their environment, but possess skills to change the environment to fit human needs. |
Ptolemy | Wrote "the guide to geography", an 8 volume guide. |
Region | A concept used to link different places together based on any parameter the geographer chooses. |
Relative Location | A location that is based on, or refers to, another feature on the earths surface. |
Scale | The relationship between the size of a map and the the actual size of something on the earth. |
Spatial Interaction (movement) | Concerned with how linked a place is to the outside world, this theme of geography deals mainly with area. |
Thematic Map | Used to determine some types of geographic phenomenon, thematic maps can be represented in various ways; chloropleth maps, dot maps, isoline maps. |
Vernacular Region | A region that exists primarily in the individuals perception or feelings. (e.g., the concept of the "South") |
Arithmetic Density | Determined by dividing the population of a country by the total land area. |
Distance decay | The lessening of a phenomenon as the distance from the hearth increases. |
Industrial Revoltion | 1750 in England. When Europeans developed new technologies, spurring a more mechanized system of farming and eventually moving them to stage 3 of the industrial economy. |