The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
Arithmetic Density
The total number of people divided by the total land area
Base Line
The east-west line designated under the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States
Cartography
The science of making maps
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area
Connections
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Culture
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people performing the act
Cultural Ecology
Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
Cultural Landscape
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
Density
The frequently with which something exists within a given unit of area
Diffusion
The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
Distance Decay
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distribution
The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Environmental Determinism
A nineteenth and early twentieth century approach that argued that geography was the study of how the physical environment causes human activities.
Expansion Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one another in a snowballing process
Formal Region
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Functional Region
An area organized around a node or focal point
Geographic Information System (GIS)
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
Global Positioning System (GPS)
A system that determines the precise postion of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Greenwich Mean Time
The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 longitude
Hearth
The region from which innovative ideas originate
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
International Date Line
When time changes by going forward 24 hours at 180 longitude
Land Ordinance of 1785
A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
Location
The position of anything on Earth's surface
Latitude
The angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point
Longitude
Angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian.
Map
A flat representation of Earth’s surface or a portion of it
Mental Map
An internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surfaces based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located.
Meridian
An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles also called a longitude.
Parallel
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
Pattern
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
Physiological Density
The number of people per unit of arable land.
Place
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character
Polder
Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area
Possibilism
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
Prime Meridian
The meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
Principal Meridian
A north-south line designated in the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States
Projection
The system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map.
Region
An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend theough bodily movement of people from one place to another
Remote Sensing
The science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance, as with radar or infrared photography, to observe the earth or a heavenly body.
Resource
A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and socially acceptable to use.
Scale
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole
Section
A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the US into 36 sections.
Site
The position or location of a town, building, as to its environment
Situation
Manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment
Space
The physical gap or interval between two objects
Space-Time Compression
The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected
Toponym
Place name
Township
A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships.
Transnational Corporation
A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.
Uneven development
The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy.
Vernacular Region
Regions that have no boundaries that people make up informally
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