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1.1 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Geography | an integrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of the world in the study of people, places and environments |
| Physical Geography | study of natural processes and distribution of features in the environment |
| Human Geography | study of the events and processes that have shaped how humans understand, use and alter Earth |
| Spatial Perspective | geographic perspective that focuses on how people live on Earth, how they organize themselves, and why the events of human societies occur where they do |
| Ecological Perspective | the relationships between living things and their environments |
| Location | the position that a point or object occupies on Earth |
| Absolute Location | the exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude |
| Relative Location | description of where a place is in relation to other places or features |
| Mental Map | internalized representations of portions of Earth's surface |
| Meridian | lines that run North to South parallel to the Prime Meridian from 0º (@ PM) to at 180º @ International Date Line |
| Longitude | A specific meridian that locates degrees E & W of Prime Meridian |
| Prime Meridian | Divides East and West hemisphere, AKA Greenwich Meridian |
| Parallel | lines that run East/West parallel to the equator from 0º (@ equator) to at 90º @ north/south poles. |
| Latitude | A specific parallel that locates degrees N or S of Equator |
| Equator | divides North from South |
| Place | a location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics |
| Site | is a place’s absolute location and physical characteristics |
| Situation | is a place’s location in relation to other places or its surrounding features |
| Space | refers to the area between 2 or more things on Earth’s surface |
| Distribution | The arrangement of a feature in within a given space |
| Density | number of things in a specific area (ppl/sq mile) |
| Pattern | how things are arranged in a particular space - Geometric or random |
| Flow | movement of people, goods and info and the econ, social, political, and cultural effects it has on society |
| Environmental Determinism | the idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controlled or determined by the physical environment |
| Possibilism | theory of human-environemnt interaction that states that humans have the ability to adapt the physical environment to their needs |
| Sustainability | the use of Earth's land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future |
| Distance Decay | a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have |
| Time-Space Compression | a key geographic principle that describes the ways in which modern transportation and communication technology have allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances more quickly and easily |
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