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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Term: Absolute Definition: A precise position on the Earth's Term: Behavioral Definition: The of the psychological basis for individual human actions in space. Term: Definition: The of making maps Term: ClimateDefinition: The long-term average weather at a particular location Term: ClusteredDefinition: Position close together. Often used interchangeably with . Term: ComplementarityDefinition: A measure of how well one country’s export profile matches another country’s profile. Term: ConcentrationDefinition: The spread of over a given area versus another area. Term: Definition: The relationships among people and across the barrier of space. Term: Definition: The management of a natural resource. Term: diffusion*Definition: The , widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. Term: ecologyDefinition: A geographic approach that emphasizes relationships. Term: Cultural *Definition: An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and phenomena
in a particular study area. Term: Culture*Definition: The body of customary beliefs, social , and material traits that together constitute a group’s
distinct tradition. Term: Density *Definition: The frequency with something exists within a given unit of area. Term: Diffusion *Definition: The process of spread of a or trend from one place to another over time. Term: Dispersed *Definition: Diffused or out over an area. Term: Distance *Definition: The diminished and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance
from its origin. Term: DistributionDefinition: The arrangement of something across surface. Term: determinism *Definition: An to the study of geography which argued that the
general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Term: diffusion *Definition: The spread of a or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process. Term: region (or uniform region) *Definition: An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive . Term: of distance*Definition: The inhibiting effect of distance on the and volume of forms of interaction. Note: time-space
compression decreases friction of distance. Term: Functional region (or region) *Definition: An area organized a node or focal point. Term: Geographic information (GIS) *Definition: A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and geographic data. Term: GeotaggingDefinition: Identification and of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates. Term: Global System (GPS)Definition: A system that determines the precise position of something on through a series of satellites,
tracking stations, and receivers. Term: Globalization *Definition: Actions or processes that involve the world and result in making something worldwide in
scope. Term: Mean Time (GMT)Definition: The time in the zone encompassing the meridian, or 0° longitude. Term: Hearth *Definition: The region from which innovative ideas . Term: Hierarchical *Definition: The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons
or . Term: geographyDefinition: The study of different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places . Term: International Date Definition: An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude. When the International Date Line is crossed heading east (toward America), the clock moves back a day. When it is crossed west (toward Asia), the
calendar moves ahead one day. Term: LatitudeDefinition: The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a and measuring
distance north and south of the equator (0°). Term: *Definition: The of anything on Earth’s surface. Term: Definition: The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a and measuring
distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°). Term: MapDefinition: A two-dimensional, or flat, of Earth’s surface or a portion of it. Term: Map Definition: The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the feature on Earth’s
surface. Term: Definition: A map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by a mapping . Term: Mental Definition: A representation of a of Earth’s surface based on what an individual knows about a place that
contains personal impressions of what is in the place and where the place is located. Term: Definition: An arc drawn on a map the North and South poles. Term: Definition: A chain of communication that places. Term: Nonrenewable Definition: Something produced in nature more slowly than it is by humans. Term: Definition: A circle around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. Term: GIS (PGIS)Definition: Community-based , representing local knowledge and information. Term: Definition: The or regular arrangement of something in a particular area. Term: Perceptual region (or Vernacular ) *Definition: An area that people exists as part of their cultural identity. Term: *Definition: A specific on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic. Term: PolderDefinition: Land that the have created by draining water from an area. Term: Possibilism *Definition: The theory that the 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. Term: geographyDefinition: The study of space as the of ideologies or value systems of ruling elites. Term: PreservationDefinition: The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as human impact as possible. Term: meridianDefinition: The , designated as 0° longitude, passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich,
England. Term: Definition: A system used to transfer locations from surface to a flat map. Term: Region *Definition: An area distinguished by a combination of trends or features Term: Location *Definition: The position of one or person in relation to another place or person. Term: Relocation diffusion (also as Migration diffusion)*Definition: The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to . Term: Remote *Definition: The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from -distance methods. Term: Renewable Definition: produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans. Term: ResourceDefinition: A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible
to access, and is acceptable to use. Term: Scale *Definition: Generally, the relationship the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. Term: of place *Definition: How a person feels a place and why it is important to them. Term: Site *Definition: The physical of a place. Term: *Definition: The location of a relative to another place. Term: Soil *Definition: The erosion, , or degrading of fertile soil. Term: SpaceDefinition: The physical gap or between two objects. Term: compression *Definition: The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved
communications and systems. Term: association *Definition: The between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature. Term: diffusion *Definition: A feature across space. Term: Spatial *Definition: The connectivity of , businesses, or other features across space. Term: Spatial *Definition: A geographic focus that seeks to identify and explain the uses of . Term: diffusion *Definition: The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific is rejected. Term: *Definition: The use of Earth’s renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain
resource use in the . Term: Syncretism *Definition: The combining of of two groups into a new cultural feature. Term: map *Definition: A map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes, and sometimes the
relationship them. Term: Toponym *Definition: The name given to a portion of surface. Term: corporation *Definition: A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many , not just
where its headquarters or shareholders are located. Term: Uneven Definition: The increasing gap in conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the
globalization of the economy. Term: Volunteered information (VGI)Definition: and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and for free by individuals. Term: Definition: Composed of nonliving or matter. Term: Definition: The thin of gases surrounding Earth. Term: BiosphereDefinition: All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as . Term: BioticDefinition: Composed of organisms. Term: EcologyDefinition: The scientific of ecosystems. Term: Definition: A group of living and the abiotic spheres with which they interact. Term: Definition: All of the water on and near surface. Term: LithosphereDefinition: Earth’s crust and a portion of the upper mantle below the crust. |
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