Chapter 1
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| show | Position of an object on the global grid; latitude and longitude.
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| Anglocentric | show 🗑
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| Azimuthal projection | show 🗑
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| show | North, south, east and west.
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| Cartogram | show 🗑
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| show | Process of mapmaking
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| show | Map that shows a pattern of a variable, such as population density or voting patterns, by using various colors or degrees of shading.
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| Cognetive (or mental) map | show 🗑
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| Conformal (or orthomorphic) projection | show 🗑
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| show | Study of human environmental interaction.
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| Data aggregation | show 🗑
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| show | Pattern in which the interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.
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| Distortion | show 🗑
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| Dot density map | show 🗑
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| Equal-area (or equivalent) projection | show 🗑
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| Equidisttant projection | show 🗑
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| show | Region composed of areas that have a common (or uniform) cultural or physical feature, sometimes referred to as uniform regions.
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| show | Shape, size, distance and direction. Shape refers to the geometric shapes of the objects on the map. Size refers to the relative amount of space taken up on the map by the landforms or objects on the map. Direction refers to the degree of accuracy
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| show | Degree to which distance interferes with some interaction.
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| Functional region | show 🗑
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| show | Computer program that stores geographic data and produces maps that show the data.
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| Geographic model | show 🗑
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| Global positioning system (GPS) | show 🗑
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| show | Circles formed on the surface of the earth by a plane that passes through the center of the earth. The equator and every line of longitude paired with its twin on the opposite side of the earth from great circles. Any arc of a great circle - shorest dista
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| Greenwich mean time (GMT) | show 🗑
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| Human-environment interaction | show 🗑
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| Human geography | show 🗑
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| Intermediate directions | show 🗑
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| Isoline thematic map | show 🗑
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| show | Measured in degrees north & south from the equator, which is 0 degrees latitude. The North Pole is 90 degrees north latitude & the South Pole is 90 degrees south latitude. Lines of latitude never intersect, geographers often call lines of latitude parall
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| Lines of longitude | show 🗑
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| show | Two dimensional model of the earth or a portion of its surface.
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| show | Map showing the shapes of the continents and landforms accurately but drastically distorting the size (area) of the continents. For example, Greenland appears almost as large as Africa.
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| show | Place from which a diffusing phenomenon spreads to other places (its originating point).
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| Perceptual (or vernacular) region | show 🗑
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| Gall-Peters projection | show 🗑
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| show | Branch of geography concerned with spatial analysis of the structures, processes, and locations of the earth's natural phonomena, like soil, climate, plants, and topography.
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| show | Theme is geography that involves the unique combination of physical and cultural attributes that give each location on the earth its individual "stamp".
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| Primary data | show 🗑
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| Proportional-symbol thematic map | show 🗑
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| Reference Map | show 🗑
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Relative directions | show 🗑
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| show | Technique of obtaining information about objects through the study of data collected by special instruments that are not in physical contact with the objects being analyzed.
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| show | Map showing the world with slight distortion to all four properties, rather than having one property correct and the other three drastically distorted.
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| show | Data used by a geographer but collected by another source that previously conducted a study and made the data available for future use.
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| Sense of place | show 🗑
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| Simplification | show 🗑
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| Site | show 🗑
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| Situation | show 🗑
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| show | Increasing sense of accessibility and connectivity that seems to be bringing humans in distant places closer together.
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| show | Outlook through which geographers identify, explain, and predict the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of different spaces.
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| Thematic map | show 🗑
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| show | Rests on the works of ancient scholars who recorded the physcial and cultural characteristics of discovered lands.
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| show | The father of history. Mapped and named the continents.
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| show | Discussed the physical elements of the earth. Divided the world into 3 distinct climate zones.
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| show | The father of geography. Measured the circumference of the world. Estimated 25,000 miles, actual 24,901.5 miles.
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| Ptolemy | show 🗑
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| Ferdinand Megellan | show 🗑
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| Charles Darwin | show 🗑
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| Immanuel Kant | show 🗑
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| Carl Sauer | show 🗑
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| show | Perspective; what we are able to see. Perception: what we think about what we are able to see. Much of this is based on our body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms which in turn makes up our culture.
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| Geography-spatial thinking | show 🗑
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| show | The arrangement of a feature in space is know as distribution. Density, concentration and pattern.
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| show | The frequency with which something occurs in space.
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| Arithmetic Density | show 🗑
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| Physilogical density | show 🗑
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| Agricultural density | show 🗑
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| show | The extent of a feature's spread over space. Clustered, dispersed.
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| Site | show 🗑
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| show | Is the location of a place relative to other places (relative location). Comparing a location with a familiar one. Signifies the importance or quality of a location.
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| Region | show 🗑
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| show | The scale of the world is shrinking - space-time compression.
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| show | Answers the question where? Absolute location or specific location.
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| Relative location | show 🗑
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| Place | show 🗑
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| Physical Characteristics | show 🗑
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| show | Language, customs, economy and type of government.
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| show | Describes how humans adapt and modify the natural environment.
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| show | A theory that stated that the environment determined/limited the capabilities of a society. Culture has proven this theory wrong.
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| show | Areas that display unity in terms of one or more selected criteria. there are 3 types of regions.
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| Formal Regions | show 🗑
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| show | State, countries and cities
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| show | Consist of a central plance and the surrounding places affected by it.
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| show | Defined by a people's feelings and attitudes. The south (dixie) is a perfect example.
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| show | Earth science: physical geography. Man-land. Spatial. Area studies- regional geography
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| Tools of the geography | show 🗑
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| show | Shape: no map depicts true shapes of large areas.
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| Area | show 🗑
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| show | No map of large areas will show distances that are equal.
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| show | Not all maps show true compass direction
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| show | Culture is the beliefs and actions that define a group of people's way of life.
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| Culture is active, nature is passive | show 🗑
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| show | A single aspect of the complex routine practices of a particular culture group.
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| Culture Convergence | show 🗑
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| Cultural hearth | show 🗑
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| show | The process by which a culture trait is transmitted across some distance from one group or an individual to another.
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| Expansion Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places.
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| Contagious diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse.
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| show | When repressive leaders restrict a culture from outside cultural influences. EX: China, North Korea, Bhutan
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| Environmental Perception | show 🗑
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| Environmental limitations | show 🗑
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| show | In any environment there are many possible options. The culture of the group will influence which option(s) are chosen
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| show | The landscape is covered by layers of culture that can be viewed layer by layer.
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| Sequent Occupance | show 🗑
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