All APHG Terms Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Distance Decay | |
| Demography | The scientific study study of population characteristics |
| International Date Line | |
| Concentration | The extent of a features spread over space |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope |
| Environmental Determinism | |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the US into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers |
| Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | The international agreement designated the time at the prime meridian |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a sears of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers |
| Arithmetic Density | Is the total number of objects in an area |
| Place | A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character |
| Cultural Ecology | |
| Toponym | IS the name given to a place on earth |
| Prime Meridian | |
| Projection | A system used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map |
| Distribution | The arrangement of a feature in space |
| Situation | Is the location of a place relative to other places |
| Regional Studies | |
| Agricultural Density | The number of farmers per unit of area of farmland |
| Mental Map | |
| Possibilism | |
| Region | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends of features |
| Formal Region | |
| Cultural Landscape | |
| Parallel | Is a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians |
| Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the plant or other long-distance methods |
| Culture | |
| Arable Land | Land suited for for agriculture |
| Physiological Density | In a region, the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land |
| Ecumene | The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
| Sections | A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the US into 36 sections |
| Township | A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the US into a series of townships |
| Space | A physical gap or interval between two objects |
| Diffusion | Is the process |
| Agriculture Density | Is the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land |
| Connections | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
| Over Population | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| Density | The frequency with which something occurs in space |
| Transnational Corporation | |
| Base Lines | An east-west line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US |
| Space-Time-Compression | |
| Functional Region | Is an area organized around a node or focal point |
| Cartography | The science of map making |
| Meridian | Is an arc drawn between the North and South poles |
| Scale | The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole |
| Physiological Density | Is the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture |
| Vernacular Region | Is a place that people believe exists as past of this cultural identity |
| Arithmetic Density | Is the total number of people divided by total land area |
| Polder | Is a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyses, and displays geographical data |
| Principals Meridians | A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US |
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