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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| show | An area of space with a central node or point from which specific political, social, economic, or other activity flows; borders and boundaries adjust as improvements in communication and transportation technologies improve.
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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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| Area Distortion | show 🗑
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| Online Visualization | show 🗑
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| Relative Distance | show 🗑
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| show | Collection of raw data outside of laboratory, library, or workplace that includes qualitative methods like informal interviews, direct observations, participation in the life of groups, collective discussions, and so on.
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| show | Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
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| show | A form of qualitative information that records demographic information about members of a given population.
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| show | Written accounts focusing on the connection between the traveler and the traveled spaces.
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| show | The use of satellites to provide a geo-spatial position on Earth's surface. (For example: GPS).
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| show | Examination of the similarities and differences relative to the relationships between people and places.
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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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| Relative Direction | show 🗑
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| Land Use | show 🗑
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| National Scale | show 🗑
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| Absolute Direction | show 🗑
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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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| Time-Space Convergence(compression) | show 🗑
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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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| Geographical (Geospatial) Data | show 🗑
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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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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | show 🗑
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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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| Map Distortion | show 🗑
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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| Landscape Analysis | show 🗑
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| Formal Region | show 🗑
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| Policy Documents | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Direction Distortion | show 🗑
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| show | Locations that lack meaning and, therefore, have many ways of attempting to understand the human activities and interactions within these locations. (For example: Economic geographers attempt to use measures of the interaction between consumers, producers
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| Local Scale | show 🗑
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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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| show | The regular arrangement or placement of objects on Earth's surface.
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Density | show 🗑
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| show | Process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
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| show | A global system of U.S. navigational satellites developed to provide precise positional and velocity data and global time synchronization for air, sea, and land travel.
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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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| show | A map with lines that connect points of equal or similar value. Used to make connections on a map.
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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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