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HUGS Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Density | The number of farmers per unit area of farmland |
| Arithmetic Density | Total number of objects in an area, commonly used to compare distribution of population in different countries |
| Base line | East-West line designated under land ordinance of 1785 for surveying townships of the US |
| Cartography | The science of making maps |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area |
| Connections | Relationships among people among space |
| Contagious Diffusion | The widespread diffusion of a feature throughout a population |
| Cultural Ecology | A geographic take on human-environment relationships |
| Cultural Landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
| Culture | The body of beliefs, social forms, and traits that constitute a group of people's tradition. |
| Density | The frequency with which something exists within an area |
| Diffusion | The spread of a feature from one place to another over time |
| Distance Decay | The eventual disappearance in importance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface |
| Environmental Determinism | An early approach to the study of geography that showed that geography is the study of how the environment caused human activities |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature among people from one area to another |
| Formal Region | An area where everyone shares one or more characteristic |
| Functional Region | An area organized around a focal point |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data |
| Geographic Positioning System (GPS) | A system that shows the position of something on Earth through a series of technology |
| Globalization | Actions that involve the world and make something worldwide |
| Greenwich Mean Time | The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian |
| Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature from one person of authority to other persons or places |
| International Date Line | An arc that follows 180 degrees longitude, and when crossed, moves the calender one full day |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided the US for the sale of land for settlers |
| Latitude | A numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels on a globe |
| Location | The position of anything on Earth's surface |
| Longitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians on a globe |
| Map | A 2-D representation of Earth's surface |
| Mental Map | An internal representation of Earth's surface in one's mind |
| Meridian | An arc on a map between North and South Poles |
| Parallel | A circle around the globe parallel to the equator |
| Pattern | The geometric arrangement of something in a study area |
| Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of suitable land |
| Place | A specific point on Earth |
| 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 |
| Prime Meridian | The meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory in England |
| Principal Meridian | A North-South line in the Land Ordinance of 1785 of numbering townships in the US |
| Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a map |
| Region | An area distinguished by a combination of trends |
| Regional Studies | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships between social and physical phenomenas |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of a feature through bodily movement of people |
| Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from satellite |
| Resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, easy to access, and socially acceptable |
| Scale | The relationship of a world map and the size of the actual Earth |
| Section | A square normally one mile on a side |
| Site | The physical character of a place |
| Situation | The location of a place relative to other places |
| Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects |
| Space-time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a place |
| Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an unerlying principle, even if a characteristic is rejected |
| Toponym | The name of a portion of Earth |
| Township | A square normallyl six miles on a side |
| Transnational Corporation | A company that researches, operates, and sells products in many countries |
| Uneven Development | The increasing gap in economic conditions as a result of the globalization of the economy |
| Vernacular Region | An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals/no hunter-gatherer |
| Census | A complete enumeration of a population |
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