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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | Exact place on Earth,often in terms of longitude and latitude |
| Built enviornment | the human made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity |
| Distance Decay | the distance between two places increases, the interaction between those two places decreases. |
| Census | counts the population of a nation, state, or other geographic region |
| Cultural Landscape | made up of structures within the physical landscape caused by human imprint/human activities. like buildings,art,etc. |
| Environmental Determinism | A philosophy of geography that stated that human behaviors are a direct result of the surrounding environment. |
| Field Observation | the act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording, firsthand, information there. absolute location. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface. |
| Formal region | A area defined by one specific point/characteristic throughout the whole area |
| Friction of distance | based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. |
| Functional region | An area that depends upon a specific relationship between a core and periphery and the interactions between and among those spaces. |
| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | commonly used to determine an individual's exact location on Earth. |
| Space Time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system |
| Spatial analysis | examines places and features on Earth's surface along with their characteristics, locations, and relationships with each other to explain human behavior patterns in geographic space. |
| Map scale | the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. |
| Possibilism | The concept that the natural environment places constraints on human activity,but humans can adapt to some environmental limits while modifying others using technology |
| Reference Maps | maps that show where something is in space |
| Relative location | A description of how a place is related to other places |
| Remote Sensing | the scanning of the earth by satellite or high flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it. |
| Sequent Occupance | The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place,each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. |
| Sense of place | the emotive bonds and attachments people develop or experience in particular locations and environments, at scales ranging from home to the nation. |
| Site | Exact location of a city,you can find it on a map. |
| situation | The location of a place based on its relation to other places |
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