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Key Intro Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Spatial Perspective | Geography’s consideration that spatial patterns are crucial to how we live and organize our societies |
| Scale | map or analytical representation |
| Geographic realm | global neighborhoods with combinations of environmental, cultural, and organizational properties |
| Transition zone | where two geographic realms meet are not sharp boundaries |
| Absolute location | area’s extent defined by the geographic grid. |
| Formal region | areas with a measurable or visible internal homogeneity |
| Functional region | a structured, urban-centered system of interaction |
| Hinterland | core, as center of activity with a surrounding zone of interaction |
| Global climate change | includes natural and anthropogenic-accelerated changes associated with warming or cooling |
| Population distribution | map with dots to represent ~100,000 people. |
| Urbanization | the proportion of total population residing in towns and cities (today 55%) |
| Cultural landscape | distinctive attributes of a society imprinted on its portion of the world’s physical stage |
| Natural landscape | array of landforms constituting Earth’s surface, including the physical features that mark them |
| Continental drift | theory that landmasses were once pieces of a supercontinent, Pangaea, that broke up |
| State | geographic term for political entities; also known as countries |
| Sovereignty | notion that the government of a state rules supreme within its borders |
| European state model | assumed a political entity (state) would territorially match a cultural entity (nation) as a nation-state |
| Core area | coastal provinces |
| Periphery | interior and western regions |
| Globalization | a geographic process in which economic, cultural, and political relations shift to ever-broader scales |
| Relative location | referenced against other regions. |