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Unit 1History vocab
Unit 1 History vocab PART 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | Description of the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude. |
| Acculturation | The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct cultural features. |
| Assimilation | The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group. |
| Atmosphere | The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth. |
| Behavioral geography | An approach to human geography that emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space. |
| Biosphere | All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms. |
| Biotic | Composed of living organisms. |
| Cartogram | A map in which the projection and scale are distorted in order to convey the information of a variable. |
| Choropleth Map | A map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the variable. |
| Citizen science | Scientific research by amateur scientists. |
| Climate | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location. |
| Concentration | The extent of a feature’s spread over a given area. |
| Connection | The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. |
| Conservation | The sustainable management of a natural resource to meet human needs. |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
| Coordinated International Time | Informally Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude. |
| Cultural Ecology | A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. |
| Cultural Landscape | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people. |
| Density | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. |
| Diffusion | The process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time. |
| Distance Decay | The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface. |
| Dot distribution | A map that depicts data that consists of discrete observations. Each dot represents a predetermined number of observations, which could be one or many. |
| Ecology | The scientific study of ecosystems. |
| Ecosystem | A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact. |
| Environmental Determinism | A early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process. |
| Formal Region | An area in which most people share in one or more distinctive characteristics. |
| Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point. |
| GIS | Analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies. |
| Geotagging | Identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates. |
| GPS | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. |
| Graduated symbol map | A map that displays symbols that change in size according to the value of the variable. |
| Hearth | A place from which an innovation originates. |
| Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |
| Humanistic diffusion | An approach to human geography that emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings. |
| Hydrosphere | All of the water on and near Earth’s surface. |
| International Date Line | Arc that follows 180° longitude. When the International Date Line is crossed heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When it is crossed heading west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day. |
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