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Unit 1
Flashards for Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sequent occupance | societies leave cultutral imprint to a place, that contrubytes to cultural landscape |
| Cultural landscape | sculpting of a natural landscape by a group- humans interact with nature. |
| Arithmetic density | total number of people divided by total land area- density of people and per land area. |
| Physiological density | number of people per unit of area of agricultural land |
| Hearth | place where idea originated. |
| Diffusion | spread of a feature or trend from one place to another |
| Relocation Diffusion | spread of an idea through movement of people from one place to another |
| Expansion Diffusion | spread of feature in snowballing process |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | spread of ideas from nodes or focal point of authority |
| Contagious diffusion | rapid and widespread throughout population |
| Stimulus diffusion | spread of underlying principle ex. computers PC and Apple) |
| Absolute distance | exact measurement of space between space |
| Relative distance | Approximate measurement of space between two places |
| Distribution | arrangement of something across Earth's Surface |
| Environmental determinism | apporach to study of geography was found in physical sciences, study of enviorment caused by human actvities. |
| Absolute location | position on Earth;s surface using coordinates of longitude |
| Friction of Distance | based on notation, distance requires money and energy. |
| Relative Location | Position on Earth's surface, near others |
| Site | physical charcter of a place, significant |
| Situation | location of place relative to others |
| Space-Time Compression | reduction in time, takes to diffuse something |
| Distance Decay | diminishing importance of phenomenon with increasing distance of hearth. |
| Networks | Manuel Castells as set of interconnected nodes without center |
| Connectivity | relationship among people and objects across a barrier |
| Accessibility | ease to reach one location to another location |
| Space | Physical gap or interval between two objects |
| Spatial Distribution | physical location across geographic space |
| Size | estimation of extent |
| Scale | ratio of maps to map and actual world |
| Formal Region | uniform region, share common characteristics such as language and climate |
| Functional Region | nodal region, central focus dominates and diminishes outward places, by transportation and communication. |
| Vernacular Region | Perceptual region, place is people culture identity, mental map |
| Possiblisim | people have ability to adjust physical environment. |
| Natural landscape | the land originally there. created by science. |
| Pattern | distribution, objects form a linear distribution |
| Toponym | name of place given |
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