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Geo exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Places | specific geographic settings with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes. |
| Regions | are territories that encompass many places, all or most of which share attributes different from the attributes of places elsewhere. |
| human geo | study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people's relationships with thier environment |
| identity | the sense that you make of yourself through your subjective feelings based on your everyday experiences and social relations. |
| physical geography | deals with earth's natural processes and thier outcomes |
| regional geography | combines both elements of both physical and human. |
| remote sensing | the collection of imformation about parts of teh earths surface by mean of aerial photographyor satelitle imagery designed to record data visible infrared and microwave sensor systems. |
| GIS | Geographic info systems-->military to private sector. Geographic information system, a system for storing and manipulating geographical information on computer. store and access spatial data, manipulate data, draw maps. |
| GPS | global positiong system-->uses satelitles to lacate positioning of something. consists of 21 satelites that orbit earth on precisley predictable paths broadcasting highly accurate time and locational info. |
| map projection | systematic rendering on a flat surface of the geographic coordinates of the features found on EArth's surface. |
| spatial analysis | study of many geographical phenomena in terms of thier arrangment as points, lines, areas, or surfaces on a map. (location, distance, space, accessibiblity, and spatial interaction. |
| latitiude | refers to the angular distance of a point on earths surface measured in degrees minutes and seconds north or south from equator. |
| longitude | angular distance of a point measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds east or west from prime meridian. |
| site | refers to the physical attributes of a location (terrain, soil, vegetation, and water sources) |
| situation | location of a place relative to other places and human activities (accessibliity to routeways) |
| cognitive distance | distance that people percieve, base on thier judgements. |
| friction of distance | reflection of the time ans cost of overcoming distance. |
| distance decay function | rate at which a particular activity or phenomena diminishes with increasing distance. |
| spatial interaction | all kinds of movement and flows involving human activity. |
| time space convergence | caused by the tendency for a shrinking world and is the rate at which places move closer together in travel or communiation time or costs. |
| spatial diffusion | the way things spread through space and overtime. |
| contagion diffusion | a phenomenon spreads because of the proximity of carriers or agents of change who are fixed on thier location. |
| hierarchical diffusion | phenomenon can be diffused from one location to the another without necesssarily spreading it to people or places in between. |
| Regionalization | scientific classification |
| regionalism | term used to describe situationsin which different religious or ethnic groups with certain identities soexist with sam estate boundaries and sharing strong feelings of collective identity. |
| sectionalism | extreme devotion to a regions intersts and customs. |
| irrendentism | assertion by the govt of a country that a monority living outside its formal borders belongs to it historically and culturally |
| vernacular landscape | everyday landscapes that people create in the course of tgier lives together. crowded city centers, rural villages, leafy suburbs |
| symbolic landscapes | represent particular values or aspirations that builders and financiers want to impart to a larger public. |
| sense of place | refers to feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories they associate witha place and to symbolism they attach to theat place. |
| life world | taken for granted pattern and context for everyday living through which people conduct thier day to day lives without concious attention. |
| intersubjectivity | shared meanings that are derived from everyday practice. |
| geographical imagination | allows us to understand changing patterns, processes, and relationships among people, places and regions. |
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