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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute location | Exact location of an object using langitute and lattitude |
| Core | Countries that are hoighly interconnected, and have advanced governments economy |
| Density | The number of things in a specific area |
| Distance-Decay | The principle saying “The more spread apart, the less interaction |
| Distribute | Things arranged within a given space |
| Ecological perspective | Refers to the relationship between living things and their environments |
| Environmental determinism | The theory that argues that human behavior is largely controlled by the physical environment |
| Flow | The movement of people, goods, or information that has effects on society |
| Formal Region/ Uniform Region | An area that has one or more shared traits |
| Friction of distance | A concept that says the longer a journey is the more time, effort, and cost it will involve |
| functional region | an area organized by its function around a NODE |
| globalization | the expansion of an economic, cultural and political processes on a world wide scale |
| human geo | the study of the processes that have shaped how humans understand, use and alter earth. |
| location | the position that a point or object occupies the earth |
| mental map | internalized representations of proportions of earths surface |
| model | A representation of reality that presents significant features in a generalized form |
| Node | The focal point of a functional region |
| pattern | the way in which theists are arranged in a particular space |
| perceptual region/ vernacular region | A type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place |
| periphery | classification of a country or region that has less wealth, lower education levels, less sophisticated ethnologies, and also tends to have an unstable government and poor healthcare systems |
| physical geography | the study of natural processes and the distribution of features, such as landforms, plant, animals, and climate |
| place | a location on earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics |
| possibilism | a theory of human environment interaction that states humans have the ability to adapt physical environment to their needs |
| Region | an area of earths surface that makes it cohesive and distinct from other areas |
| relative location | a description of where a place is in relation of other places and objects |
| scale | the area of the world being studied |
| semi periphery | The classification of a country or region that has quality’s of both core and peri feral area and is in the process of industrializing |
| Site | a places absolute location as well as its physical Characteristics |
| situation | the location of a place in relation to other places or sorrunding features |
| spcae | the area between two or more things |
| Spatial perspective | geographic [perspective that focuses on how people live on earth, how they organize them selfs and why the events occur and where they do |
| Sustainability | the use of earths land and natural reasources in ways that insure that they will continue to be available in the future |
| Sustainable developement | developement that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability for future generations to meet their needs |
| theory | a system of ideas intended to explain a certain phenomenon |
| Time-space compression | The way modern technology has made it so we can communicate and travel over long distances quicker and easier |
| world system theory | the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy ;catergorizes core periphery and semi periphery |
| absolute distance | distance that can be measured using a standard unit of length |
| absolute direction | cardinal directions; north south east west |
| cartographer | someone who creates maps |
| census | an official count of people in an area |
| GIS (Geographic information system) | A comp[ute system that collects geographic data for analysis |
| GPS (Global Positioning Systems) | A network of satellites that orbit earth and transmit location data to receivers |
| Map Scale | The relationship of size of the map to the size of the area on earth it represents |
| Quantitative data | Data With numbers |
| Qualitative | An interpretation of data not described by numbers (Senses) |
| reference map | a map that focused of location of places |
| relative distance | Distance determined in relation to other places or objects |
| relative direction | Direction based of on perspective: left right up down |
| remote sensing | collecting data from a location without making physical contact |
| thematic maps | any map that focuses on one or more variables using geographic data |
| topography | the representation of earths surface to show natural and human made features, especially the relative position and elevation |
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