Thinking Geographically Vocabulary
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| Personal Interviews | show 🗑
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| Global Scale | show 🗑
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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| show | The depiction of items on a map that stretch or shrink the size of the objects being studied.
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| Functional Region | show 🗑
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| Perceptual Region (Vernacular) | show 🗑
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| show | The examination of images for identifying objects and patterns and for judging their significance.
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| Place | show 🗑
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| show | The depiction of items on a map are either too large or too small as a result of this form of distortion.
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| Online Visualization | show 🗑
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| Relative Distance | show 🗑
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| Field Observation (fieldwork) | show 🗑
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| Natural Resources | show 🗑
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| show | A form of qualitative information that records demographic information about members of a given population.
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| Travel Narratives | show 🗑
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| Satellite Navigation System (Sat Nav) | show 🗑
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| Regional Analysis | show 🗑
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| show | The depiction of items on a map that causes improper locations and changes in compass bearings between two points.
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| Thematic Maps | show 🗑
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| show | The geographic study of information related to a region.
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| show | Pictures of Earth taken by imaging satellites, typically operated by government agencies or businesses.
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| show | Based in less formal means of demonstrating a course of movement. (For example: The Far East was termed such by those in Western Europe. It was the furthest points of the known world to these individuals. The Midwest was termed as such by those living in
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| show | Management and modification of natural environments or wilderness into built environments such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
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| show | The geographic study of information related to the entirety of a single country.
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| show | Based upon the four cardinal points/compass bearings of north, south, east, west.
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| show | A measure of the space between objects using a standard unit like miles or kilometers.
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| Media Reports | show 🗑
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| show | A measure in the change in the effort required to overcome distance, the average rate of decline in travel time between two places over time.
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| show | The use of software within a website to create, maintain, and analyze maps.
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| show | The decrease in interaction between two phenomena, places, or people as distance between them increase.
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| Remote Sensing | show 🗑
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| show | Data or information that identifies geographic features, locations, and boundaries on Earth that can be accessed, manipulated, and analyzed using geospatial software like GIS.
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| show | 19th century geographic theory that says that the physical environment predisposed social, economic, and political development of societies.
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| show | A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all forms of geographic data.
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| show | Distribution of items over a wide geographic area.
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| show | The movement of people, ideas, product, commodities, capital, etc. in a constant stream from one location to another. E.G. the flows of rural-to-urban migration.
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| show | The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level of production to avoid the depletion of natural resources and maintain an ecological balance.
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| show | The outcome of transferring the three-dimensional Earth onto a flat surface; results in changes to distance, direction, shape, and area.
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| show | One's location based up the distance and direction from another known location.
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| show | In Human Geography: A method of fieldwork where one discovers geographic patterns and collects, desribes, and interprets geographic data related to human activities.
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| Formal Region | show 🗑
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| Policy Documents | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that the environment sets constraints or limitations on culture, but that culture is otherwise determine by social conditions.
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| Direction Distortion | show 🗑
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| Space | show 🗑
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| show | The geographic study of information of a small area like a neighborhood, village, or small town.
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| Elevation | show 🗑
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| show | Showing where something is in space, physical features like landforms, coastlines, waterways and political data boundaries, settlements, transportation or other networks for their own sake.
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| show | Distribution of items in close proximity to one another.
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Density | show 🗑
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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| show | A map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols within predefined areas to indicate the average value of a property or quantity in those areas.
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| show | Uses a dot symbol to show the presence of a feature or a phenomenon. Maps that rely on visual scatter to show spatial patterns.
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| Isoline Maps | show 🗑
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| show | Maps that distort reality to convey information. They resize and exaggerate any variable on a map to show the importance of the information.
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