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chapter 1
Rubenstein ch.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| arithmetic density | the total number of people divided by the total land area |
| base line | *a latitude line that numbers the township in the united states. |
| cartography | the art/science of map making |
| concentration | spreading of something in an area |
| connections | something people and object are in an area |
| contagious diffusion | the fast spread of something in a population |
| cultural ecology | relating everyday things to human geography |
| cultural landscape | people changing a landscape to fit their culture |
| culture | unique things a group of people share in common |
| density | the amount of things in an area |
| diffusion | the spread of things over time |
| distance decay | the closer you get to one thing, you get further away to another thing |
| distribution | *where things are on earth |
| environmental determinism | |
| expansion diffusion | *the spread of something snowball effect? |
| formal region | *an area where everybody shares a unique characteristic |
| functional region | an area that has certain things because of a node or hearth |
| geographic information system | a computer system that stores data |
| global positing system | *knows exact points on earth and helps you get places |
| globalization | *a thing or trend that spreads around the world |
| greenwich means time | *a time zone? |
| hearth | where a thing or trend originates |
| hierarchical diffusion | *the spread of something from a person to other people |
| international date line | a longitude line that moves the time back 24 hours |
| land ordinance of 1785 | *a law that divided the united states into townshipsn |
| latitude | east to west |
| location | *a certain area on earth |
| longitude | north to south |
| map | a flat representation of earth |
| mental map | a map in your point of view of an area |
| meridian | * |
| parallel | *meridians |
| physiology density | amount of people per an amount of suitable land |
| place | a certain point on earth |
| polder | land created by draining water from an area (Dutch) |
| possibilism | the theory that the environment will limit humans but we can adjust |
| prime meridian | *a longitude meridian |
| principle meridian | *a laditude line |
| projection | the system that processes the earths surface to a flat map |
| region | an area with unique characteristics |
| regional studies | *geography that |
| relocation diffusion | the spread of features and trends by migration |
| remote sensing | acquisition? |
| resources | a thing that is useful to people |
| scale | the size relationship between something to something else |
| section | * |
| site | the physical characteristic of a place |
| situation | finding the location of a place from knowing where another place is |
| space | the gap between 2 things |
| space-time compression | ? |
| stimulus diffusion | *the spread |
| toponym | the name of a portion of the earth |
| township | 6 miles |
| transnational corporation | ? |
| uneven development | * |
| vernacular region | *an areas that exists because of culture |
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