Barron's Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| show | anthropogenic
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| theory and practice of making visual representations of the earth's surface in the form of maps | show 🗑
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| show | cultural ecology
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| show | cultural landscape
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| show | earth system science
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| show | environmental geography
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| the head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he was one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the earth's circumference. He is also credited with coining the term "geography." | show 🗑
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| name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C. | show 🗑
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| a set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data. | show 🗑
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| show | global positioning system
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| show | idiographic
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| show | George Perkins Marsh
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| show | natural landscape
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| show | nomothetic
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| he claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions: the earth-science tradition, the culture-environment tradition, the locational tradition, and the area-analysis tradition | show 🗑
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| the realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of earth's surface | show 🗑
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| show | ptolemy
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| data associated with a more humanistic approach to geography, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives. | show 🗑
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| show | quantitative data
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| a period in human geography associated with the widespread adoption of mathematical models and statistical techniques | show 🗑
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| a territory that encompasses many places that share similar attributes (may be physical, cultural, or both) in comparison with the attributes of places elsewhere. | show 🗑
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| the study of geographic regions | show 🗑
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| observation and mathematical measurement of earth's surface using aircraft satellites. The sensors include both photographic images, thermal images, multispectral scanners, and radar images. | show 🗑
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| Geographer from the Unicersity of California at Berkeley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results from interaction between humans and the physical environment. Sauer argued ta | show 🗑
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| feelings evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place. | show 🗑
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| show | spatial perspective
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| the concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations | show 🗑
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| show | systematic geography
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| show | thematic layers
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| show | vernacular regions
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