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Barron Vocab. Ch1

these are the vocab from the back of each chapter of the Barron's book

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Anthropogenic Human- induced changes on the natural enivronment
Cartography Theory and practice of making visual representation of the earth's surface in the form of maps
Cultural Ecology The study of the interaction between societies and the natural environments they live in
Cultural Landscape The human- modified landscape specifially containing the imprint of a particular culture or society
Earth system Science Systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale
Environmental Geography The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical enivronment
Eratosthenes THe head librarianat Alexandria during the third century B.C; he was one of the first cartographers-- Performed a remarkably accurate calculation of the world's circumference. He is also given credit for coining the word GEOGRAPHY
Fertile Crescent Name given to crecent-shape area of fertile landstretching from the lower Nile valley, along the East Mediterranean Coast, and into Syria and present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C
Geographical Information System (GIS) A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographical data
Global Positioning System (GPS) A set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device
Idiographic Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place
George Perkins Marsh Inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, his classic work, Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions
Natural Landscape The physical landscpae or environment that has not been affected by human activities
Nomothetic Concepts or rules that can be applied universally
W.D. Pattison He claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions-Earth Science Tradition-Culture-Environment Tradition-Locational Tradition-Area Analysis Tradition
Physical Geography The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena
Ptolemy Roman geographer-astronomer and author of Guide to Geography which include maps containg a grid sysyem of latitude and longitude
Qualitative Data Data associated with a more humanistic approach to approach to geography, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, of the interpretaiton of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archive
Quantitative Data Data associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial location and associtation
Region A territory that encompasses many places that share similar attributes (may be physical, cultural, or both) in comparison with attricutes of places elsewhere
Regional Geography The study of geographic regions
Remote Sensing Observation and mathematical measurement of the Earth's surface using aircraft and satellites. The sensors include both photographic images, thermal images satellites.
Carl Sauer the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographycal analysis. This landscape results from interaction between humans and the physical environment. Sauer argued that virtually no landscape has escaped alteration by human activities
Sense of Place Feeling evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place
Spatial Perspective An intellectual framewrok that looks at the particular location of specific phenomena, how and wht that phenomena is where it is and finally, how it is spatially related to phenomena in other places
Sustainability The concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations
Systematic Geography The study of the earth's integrated systems as a whole, instead of focusing on particular phenomena in a single place
Thematic Layers Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a geographical information system (GIS) to understand and analyze a spatial relationship
Vernacular Regions exist in the minds of people
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