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Ap #1
chapter 1 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Agricultural Density | the number of farmers per unit of farmland. |
Arithmetic Desity | Total number of objects in an area. |
Base line | East and west lines separating townships |
Cartography | the art of making maps. |
Concentration | extent of a features spread over space. |
Connection | relationships between people and objects across the barrier of space. |
Contagious Diffusion | rapid, widespread diffusion of characteristic throughout the population. |
Cultural Ecology | study of human-environment relationships. |
Cultural Landscape | a combination of cultural features. |
Culture | body of customary beliefs. |
Density | Something occurs in space. |
Diffusion | characteristics spread across space from one place to another. |
Distance Decay | the farther something gets the more likely it is to disappear. |
Distribution | the arrangement of a feature in space. |
Environmental Determination | physical environment caused social development. |
Expansion Diffusion | the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. |
Formal region | everyone shares a common one or more distinctive characteristics. |
Functional Region | area organized around a node or focal point. |
Geography Information System (GIS) | computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data. |
GPS | accurately determines a position on earths surface. |
Globalization | involves the entire world and results in making something world wide. |
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | the time that ti international date line is set to. |
Hearth | where innovation originates. |
Hierarchical Diffusion | spread of ideas from persons or nodes from authority or power to other persons. |
International Date Line | moves the clock back 24 hours. |
Land Ordinance of 1785 | divided the united states into a bunch of townships. |
Latitide | lines that go east and west on earth. |
Location | Geographers describe a place on earth. |
Longitude | line that goes north to south on the earth. |
Map | 2-d or flat diagram of earths surface. |
Mental Map | a useful way to identify a perceptual region. |
Meridian | arc drawn between the north ad south poles (longitude) |
Parallel | circle around the globe parallel to the equator and at a right angle to the meridian. (latitude) |
Pattern | geometric arrangements in space. |
Physiological Density | the umber of persons suitable in an area for agriculture. |
Place | specific point on earth. |
Polder | land that is created by draining water from an area. |
Possibilism | adjusting to the environment. |
Prime Meridian | 0 degree longitude that starts in Greenwich England. |
Principle Meridian | north and south lines separating townships. |
Projection | transferring locations on earth surface to a flat map. |
Region | place on earth distinguished by culture and physical features. |
Regional Studies | cultural landscape approach in geography. |
Relocation Diffusion | the spread of ideas through physical movement. |
Remote Sensing | scans earths surface. |
Resources | endowing the physical environment with cultural values. |
Scale | relationship between the portions of earth being studied and earth as a whole. |
Sections | 1x1 mile of land in a township usually 36 sections. |
Site | Physical character of a place. |
Situation | location of a place relative to another place. |
Space | physical gap or interval between two objects. |
Space-Time Compression | reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place. |
Stimulus Diffusion | spread of an underlying principle. |
Toponym | name of a given place on earth. |
Township | square of 6 miles on each side 6x6 |
Transnational Corp. | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in may countries. |
Uneven Development | the increasing gap between economic conditions. |
Vernacular Region | place that people think exist as part of their cultural identity. |