1.2 Vocab

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the study of how the physical environment caused human activities

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Geography

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is designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, and present numerous types of spatial

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GIS - Geographic information system

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A system that uses data from satellites to pin-point a location on earth and help people find their way to a destination.

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GPS stands for Geographic Positioning System.

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the interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another

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Gravity Model

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The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

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Think: Celebrity Starting a fashion trend and it slowly becoming a trend in the US

Hierarchical Diffusion

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The region from which innovative ideas originate

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Hearth

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a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the built environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earth’s surface.

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human geography

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An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas.

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International Date Line

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of a parallel, runs up and down, north to south.

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latitude

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the geographical situation of people and things.

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location

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian

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Longitude

Think: East to West

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a symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface.

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Map

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an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the mid-point between two places

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Median Line Principle

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Combining your objective knowledge of places and subjective perceptions

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Mental Map

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a map projection that fairly accurately shows shape and direction, but distorts distance and size of land masses

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Mercator Projection

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An arc drawn between the north and south poles and helps to define time zones along with parallels.

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Meridan

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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to meridians and helps to define a time zone along with a meridian

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parrellel

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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.

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pattern

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An area defined by subjective perceptions that reflect the feelings & images about key place characteristics

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Perceptual Region`

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cylindrical projection that maintains accurate sizes of the world’s landmasses

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Peters Projection

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The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

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Possibilism

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The meridian, designed as 0 degrees longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England

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Prime Meridian

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the process which the 3-D surface of Earth is transferred onto a 2D map.
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A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface

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Projection

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thematic maps in which the size or number of a chosen symbol indicates the relative magnitude of some statistical value for a given geographic region.

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Proportional Symbol