Ch. 1 Vocab

Question 1

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transportation systems

Answer 1

Space-Time Compression

Question 2

The spread of something over a given area

Answer 2

Concentration

Question 3

Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships

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Cultural Ecology

Question 4

An area organized around a node or focal point

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Functional Region

Question 5

A company that conducts research, operates factories and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located

Answer 5

Transnational Corporation

Question 6

Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature of the Earth’s surface

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Scale

Question 7

The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods

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Remote Sensing

Question 8

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

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Relocation Diffusion

Question 9

The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the euqator

Answer 9

Latitude

Question 10

An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US

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Base Line

Question 11

Relationships among people and objects across the barriers of space

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Connections

Question 12

A nineteenth - and early twentieth - century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities

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Environmental Determinism

Question 13

The frequency with which something exist within a given unit of area

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Density

Question 14

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

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International Date Line (IDL)

Question 15

The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface

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Distribution

Question 16

The physical character of a place

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Site

Question 17

The location to a place relative to another place

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Situation

Question 18

The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface

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Toponym

Question 19

A circle around the globe parallel to the equator and at a right angle to the meridians

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Parallel

Question 20

A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes and displays geographic data

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Geographic Information System (GIS)

Question 21

An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area

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Regional Studies (or cultural landscapes)

Question 22

An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles

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Meridian

Question 23

The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy

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Uneven Development

Question 24

The time in that zone encompassing the prime meridian or 0 degrees longitude

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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Question 25

An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics

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Formal Region (or uniform or homogeneous region)

Question 26

A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character

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Place

Question 27

A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access . and is socially acceptable

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Resource

Question 28

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process

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Expansion Diffusion

Question 29

An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity

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Vernacular Region (or perceptual region)

Question 30

A representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located

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Mental Map

Question 31

The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

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Stimulus Diffusion

Question 32

The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture

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Physiological Density

Question 33

A square normally one mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the US into 36 sections

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Section

Question 34

Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

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Cultural Landscape

Question 35

A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of the Earth's surface, or a portion of it

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Map

Question 36

The geometric or regular arrangements of something in a study area

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Pattern

Question 37

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or place

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Hierarchical Diffusion

Question 38

A law that divided the US into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers

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Law Ordinance of 1785

Question 39

A system that determines the precise location of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and recievers

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

Question 40

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture

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Agricultural Density

Question 41

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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Contagious Diffusion

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

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Prime Meridian

Question 44

The total number of people divided by the total land area

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Arithmetic Density

Question 45

The region from which innovative ideas originate

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Hearth

Question 46

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct religion

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Culture

Question 47

The physical gap or interval between two objects

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Space

Question 48

An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features

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Regions

Question 49

A square normally six miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the US into a series of townships

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Townships

Question 50

Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area

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Polder

Question 51

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

Question 52

The science of making maps

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Cartography

Question 53

The position of anything on Earth's surface

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Location

Question 54

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Diffusion

Question 55

The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map

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Projection

Question 56

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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Principal Meridian

Question 57

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

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Globaliztion

Question 58

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

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Distance Decay