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*UNIT 1*
Rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | Agricultural Density |
| The total number of people divided by the total land area. | Arithmetic Density |
| an east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. | Base Line |
| The science of mapmaking | cartography |
| the spread of something over a given area | connections |
| the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend thoughout a population. | contagious diffusion. |
| geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationships | cultural ecology |
| fashioning of a natural landscape | cultural landscape |
| the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition. | culture |
| the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. | density |
| the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time, | diffusion |
| the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | distance decay |
| the arrangement of something across earth's surface | distribution |
| a nineteenth- and early twentieth- century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sough out by human geographers could be found un the physical sciences | environmental determinism |
| the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in snowballing process | expansion diffusion |
| an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. | formal region |
| an area organized around a focal point | functional region |
| a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | GIS |
| a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites. | GPS |
| actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something world wide in scope. | globalization |
| the time that the zone encompassing the prime meridian | GMT |
| the region from which innovative ideas originate | hearth |
| the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places | Hierarchical diffusion |
| an arc that the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates un several places to avoid dividing land areas, | International Date Line |
| a law that divided much of the US into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers | land ordinance of 1785 |
| the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distances north to south of the equator. | latitude |
| the position of anything on earth's surface | location |
| the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian. | longitude |
| a 2D representation of the Earth's surface or portion of it. | map |
| a 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. | mental map |
| an arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles | meridian |
| a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians | parallel |
| the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area | pattern |
| the number of people per unit of area of arable land. | physiological density |
| a specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character, | place |
| land created by the dutch by draining water from an area. | polder |
| 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 | possibilism |
| the meridian | prime meridian |
| a north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the united states | principle meridian |
| the system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map | projection |
| an area designated by a unique combination of trends or features | region |
| the acquisition of date about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods, | remote sensing |
| the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of an object on a map and the size of an actual feature on Earth's surface. | scale |
| the physical character of a place | site |
| the physical character of a place relative to another place | situation |
| the name given to a portion of earth's surface | toponym |
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