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Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Geography | The spatial study of people, |
| Human Geography | How people affect the earth |
| Globalization | Process heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country boarders |
| Fieldwork | Observations researches make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences |
| Patterns | Description of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon |
| Physical Geography | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of physical phenomena, including climate, environmental hazards, whether systems, animals, and topography |
| Spatial Distribution | Physical locations of geographic phenomena, usually shown on a map |
| Pandemic | Global disease |
| Epidemic | Regional disease |
| Spatial Perspective | Looking at where things occur, why they occur where they do, and how places are interconnected |
| Geographical Concepts | Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world spatially |
| Location | A natural spot on Earth |
| Absolute Location | The exact location of a place, usually defined by latitude and longitude |
| Relative Location | The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute |
| Location Theory | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption |
| Human-Environment Interactions | The relationship between humans and the physical word |
| Enviromental Determinism | The idea that individuals and collective human behavior is fundamentally affected by, or even controlled by, the physical environment |
| Hearth | A place where an idea, innovation, or technology evolved |
| Possibilism | The choices that a society makes depend on what its members need and on what technology is available to them |
| Carrying Capacity | The idea that land tam hold a measurable amount of plant and animal life |
| Cultural Ecology | Study of how humans change their environment to meet their needs, and how humans change themselves for their environment |
| Political Ecology | Fundamentally concerned with the environment consequences of dominant political-economic arrangements and assumptions |
| Region | Area of Earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual community that makes it different from regions around it |
| Formal Region | Area of land with common cultural or physical traits |
| Cultural Traits | A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture |
| Functional Region | An area that shares a common purpose |
| Nodes | A connection point in a network where good ideas flow throughout it |
| Perceptual/Vernacular Region | Images people carry in their minds based on accumulated knowledge of people, places, and things / A local language people use to communicate |
| Place | A location that has been giving a name and a meaning; people can grow attached to a place |
| Sense of Place | Infusing a place with meaning as a result of experiences in a place |
| Movement | Mobility of people, foods, and services across Earth |
| Diffusion | The spread of an idea innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places |
| Spatial Interaction | Degree of connectedness or contact among people or places |
| Distance | The length from one location to another |
| Accessibility | Ease of flow between two places |
| Connectivity | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network |
| Expansive Diffusion | The spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth across space without the aid of people moving |
| Contagious Diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on proximity |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness |
| Stimulus Diffusion | The process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait |
| Relocation Diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them |
| Cultural Landscape | The visible human imprint on the landscape |
| Sequent Occupance | The imprint made by a series of people living on a a landscape |
| Scale | Geographical scope in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon |
| Rescale | Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers and gatekeepers at another scale |
| Context | The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act |
| Cartography | The art and science of making maps |
| Reference Maps | Show locations of places and geographical features |
| Thematic Maps | A map that tells a story, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon using map symbols |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features |
| Mental Maps | Maps in our mind of places we have been and merely heard of |
| Activity Spaces | The spaces we move through routinely |
| Terra Incognita | Areas on maps that are not well defines because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker |
| Remote Sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically stint from the area of study (satellite) |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | A system of computer hardware and software designed to shoe, analyze, and represent geographic data (data that have locations) |
| Culture | Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people |
| Culture Complex | A group of interrelated cultural traits, such as prevailing dress code, cooking, and eating utensils |
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