the total number of people divided by the total land area
Cartography
the science of making maps
Concentration
the spread of something over a given area
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
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 deminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distrubtion
the arrangement of someting across Earth's surface
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
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 ecompassing the prime meridian, or 0 longitude
Hearth
the region from which innovative ideas origionate
Heirarchical 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
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, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in
Meridian
a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface.
Parallel
extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging
Prime Meridian
the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
Region
an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body
Relocation Diffusion
the spread of an idea through physical 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.
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
Stimulus Diffusion
when something effecs you
Toponym
place name
Vernacular Region
Regions that have no boundries that people make up informally
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