Question | Answer |
Place | uniqueness of a location |
Sense of Place | state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remebering important events that occured in that place or by labeling a place with a certain charachter |
Perseption of Place | Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, or pictures |
Movement | the mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet/ |
Spatial Interaction | A that exists when two regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products, can specifically satisfy each other's demands. |
Distance | Measurement of the physical space between two places. |
Accessibility | the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations. |
Connectivity | the degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network. |
Landscape | the overall apparence of an area. |
Cultural Landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
Sequent Occupance | The notion that a successive socities leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape |
Cartography | the art and science of making maps, including data comp, layout, and design. |
Refrence Map | maps that show the absolute location of placesand geographic features determined by a frame of refrence,typically latitude and longitude. |
Thematic Map | Maps that tell storiesa, typically showing the degree of some attibute or the movement of a geographic phenomena |
Asolute Location | the position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0 to 90 north or south of the equator and longitude 0- 180 east or west of the prime meridian passing through Greewich, England. |
Global Positioning System | Satellite based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. |