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Define: AnthropogenticHuman-induced changes to the natural enviroment
Define: CartograpgyTheory and practice of making visual representations of the earth's surface in the form of maps
Define: Cultural ecologyThe study of the interactions between socoeties and the natural enviroment they live in
Define: Cultural LandscapeThe human-modified natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society
Define: Earth System ScienceSystem approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale
Define:Enviromental geographythe intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical enviroment and vice versa
Who is: Eratoshenesa libarian at Alexendria durning the third senturay B.C., he was one of the first cartographers. Performed an accurate measurment of the earth's circumference. coined the tearm "geography"
Define: Spatital perspectiveobserving the spatial location on earth's surface and determining why and how those things occupy their specific locations
Example: of a large scale mapwatershed, Ecosystem, landscape and bidome
Define: Functional RegionsNodal Regions
Define: Regionan area larger then a single city that contains unifying social or physical characteristics
Example: of a Functional RegionLocal newspaper route, or Radio
Define: Formal Regionhave specific characteristics that are relativly uniform from one place to another within the region
Example: of a Formal RegionTibet, not a state with political boundries
Define: Perceptual regionsexist wthin the minds of people, made up boundries
Example: of a Perceptual Regionthe Deep south" or "midwest"
Define: Idographicthe facts or features that are unique to a place or region
Example: Idiographic featureHistory or ethnic composition
Define: Nomotheticconcepts that are universally applicable
Who: W.D. PattisonHe claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions: the earth-science tradition, the culture-enviroment tradition, the locational tradition, adn teh area-analysis tradition
Who: Carl SauerGeographer who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results from interaction between humans and the physical enviroment. He believed that no landscape has escaped alteration by humans
What: is the oldest feild of GeographyCartography