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BB Ch 2 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | The exact spot where something is on the Earth |
| Accessibility | The ease of interaction between two points |
| Built Environment | Things people build on the landscape |
| Cartography | Mapmaking |
| Choropleth maps | Maps that utilizing colors and shading |
| Climate | The temperature and environment of a region |
| Concentration | How something is distributed over a given area |
| Contagious Diffusion | Rapid spread of something from person to person. Begins at a central point |
| Cultural Landscape | Result of human's interactions with the environment |
| Culture | Traditions, beliefs, and customs of people in a given region |
| Density | The amount of something in a given area |
| Diffusion | Something spreads |
| Distance | How far or close something is |
| Distance Decay | When something gets further away from its point of origin, it gets weaker |
| Distribution | How something is spread out |
| Dot maps | Maps that utilize dots to show a pattern |
| Environmental Determinism | Belief that the environment shapes human behavior |
| Equator | Imaginary line running east/west through the center of the Earth |
| Expansion Diffusion | form of diffusion where something spreads outward without migration |
| Field Observation | Going out to a place to study its people or environmental characteristics |
| Formal Region | A region that shares a characteristic, noted by boundaries and borders |
| Functional Region | Region that is united by a central point (node). The node projects something outward toward fuzzy boundaries |
| Ghost town | Settlement that has been abandoned |
| GIS | Computer that stores geographic data and produces maps |
| GPS | Satellite system that determines absolute location of places |
| Globalization | The spread of something worldwide |
| Graduated Symbol Maps | Map that uses symbols of different sizes to interpret data |
| Greenwich Mean Time | 0 degrees longitude. The prime meridian determines this time zone |
| Hearth | The place that something begins |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | Something spreads from an important city or person "top-down" to the rest of the population |
| Isoline Maps | Maps that use lines to show elevation |
| Latitude | Measurement of distance north or south of the equator |
| Location | Where something is on the planet |
| Longitude | Measurement east or west of the prime meridian |
| Map | Flat model of Earth's surface |
| Map scale | The size of a portion of a map vs the size of that portion on the planet |
| Mental map | A map created in your mind |
| Meridian | Imaginary line on the earth going from north to south |
| Parallel | Imaginary line on the earth going from east to west |
| Pattern | How something is arranged |
| Physical Geography | Studies natural phenomena (volcanoes, rivers, etc.) |
| Physical Map | Maps that show natural features (rivers, mountains, etc.) |
| Place | Spot on earth marked by certain characteristics |
| Political Maps | Maps that show boundaries and borders of countries and states |
| Possibilism | Belief that culture shapes human behavior |
| Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude |
| Projection | 2D model of the 3D globe |
| Proximity | How close two things are to each other |
| Region | A set of places that share a common characteristic |
| Relative Location | Where something is in relation to something else |
| Relocation Diffusion | Something spreads due to migration |
| Remote Sensing | Obtaining data about the planet through instruments not directly touching the objects being analyzed |
| Site | Physical description of a place (similar to absolute location) |
| Situation | Where something is relative to something else (similar to relative location) |
| Space-time Compression | Shortening of travel time between places due to technological advances |
| Stimulus Diffusion | An idea begins to spread, but is changed and spreads even more widely |
| Toponym | Name of a place |
| Transnational Corporation | A business that operates in several countries |
| Vernacular Region | A region based on perceptions or thoughts. People may disagree on them |
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