Chapter One part one - Rubenstein
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| Map | a two dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it. | ||||
| Connections | relationships between people and objects. | ||||
| Demographic Transition | a north-south line designated in the Land Ordinanace of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the U.S. | ||||
| Remote Sensing | the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | ||||
| Site | the physical character of a place. | ||||
| Longitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°). | ||||
| Cultural Landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. | ||||
| Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character. | ||||
| Pandemic | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | ||||
| Base lines | An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. | ||||
| Global Positioning System | GPS - a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. | ||||
| Situation | The location of a place relative to other places. | ||||
| Latitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe measuring distance north and south of the equator(0°). | ||||
| Regional Studies | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. | ||||
| Scale | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. | ||||
| Township | a square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the U.S into a series of townships | ||||
| Sections | a square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections. | ||||
| Location | The Position of anything on Earth's surface. | ||||
| Meridian | An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles. | ||||
| Prime Meridian | The meridian, designated as 0° longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. | ||||
| Formal Region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. | ||||
| Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects. | ||||
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the Unites States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. | ||||
| Geographic Information System | GIS - A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic information | ||||
| Toponyms | The Name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | ||||
| Parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. | ||||
| Greenwich Mean Time | GMT - The time tin that time zone encompassingthe prime meridian, or 0° longitude. | ||||
| International Date Line | An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. Eastwards you go back a day, Westwards you go ahead a day. | ||||
| Functional Region | an area organized around a node or focal point. | ||||
| Cultural Ecology | Geographic apporach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. | ||||
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire World and result in making something worldwide in scope. | ||||
| Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | ||||
| Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area. | ||||
| Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate. | ||||
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | ||||
| Vernacular Region | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. | ||||
| Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | ||||
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | ||||
| Physiological Density | The number of people per unit per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | ||||
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | ||||
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread if a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | ||||
| Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | ||||
| Mental Map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. | ||||
| Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area. | ||||
| Density | The frequency which something exists within a given unit of area. | ||||
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. | ||||
| Diffusion | The process if spread if a feature or trend from one place to another over time. | ||||
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | ||||
| Uneven Development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. | ||||
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition. | ||||
| Environmental Determinism | A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. | ||||
| transnational corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | ||||
| agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | ||||
| Space-Time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distance place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems. | ||||
| Hierarchical Diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |
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Created by:
Stephan Holwerda
on 2010-08-29