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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  
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Cartography   Theory and practice of making visual representation of the earth's surface in the form of maps  
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Cultural Ecology   The study of the interaction between societies and the natural environments they live in  
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Cultural Landscape   The human- modified landscape specifially containing the imprint of a particular culture or society  
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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  
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Environmental Geography   The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical enivronment  
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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  
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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  
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Geographical Information System (GIS)   A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographical data  
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Global Positioning System (GPS)   A set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device  
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Idiographic   Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place  
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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  
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Natural Landscape   The physical landscpae or environment that has not been affected by human activities  
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Nomothetic   Concepts or rules that can be applied universally  
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W.D. Pattison   He claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions-Earth Science Tradition-Culture-Environment Tradition-Locational Tradition-Area Analysis Tradition  
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Physical Geography   The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena  
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Ptolemy   Roman geographer-astronomer and author of Guide to Geography which include maps containg a grid sysyem of latitude and longitude  
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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  
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Quantitative Data   Data associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial location and associtation  
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Region   A territory that encompasses many places that share similar attributes (may be physical, cultural, or both) in comparison with attricutes of places elsewhere  
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Regional Geography   The study of geographic regions  
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Remote Sensing   Observation and mathematical measurement of the Earth's surface using aircraft and satellites. The sensors include both photographic images, thermal images satellites.  
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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  
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Sense of Place   Feeling evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place  
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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  
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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  
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Systematic Geography   The study of the earth's integrated systems as a whole, instead of focusing on particular phenomena in a single place  
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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  
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Vernacular Regions   exist in the minds of people  
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