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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Formal/Uniform Region

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An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics

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Relocation Diffusion

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Spread of physical movement of people from one place to another

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Situation/relative location

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Location of a place relative to other places

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Concentration

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Extent of a feature’s spread over space

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Network

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A chain of communication that connects places

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Isoline map

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Map that connects with lines, places ith particular values

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Environmental Determinism

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The belief that the physical environment caused social development

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Expansion Diffusion

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Spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process

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Preservation

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The maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible

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Cartography

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Art of mapmaking

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GIScience (Geographic information science)

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Analysis of data about Earth through satellite and digital systems

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Projection

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Scientific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to flat map

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Absolute Location

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Describes position of a place in a way that never changes

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Photogrannetry

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Science of taking measurements of Earth’s surface from photos

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Longitude

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Location of each meridian identified according to numbering system. Basis for telling time

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Distance Decay

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Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears

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Sustainability

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The use of Earth’s resources in a way that ensures their availability in the future

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Coordinated universal time (UTC)

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Time at prime meridian is a master reference for all time on Earth

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Biotic system

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Composed of living organisms

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Spacial association

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Observed within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature

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Location

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Position that something occupies on Earth’s surface

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Geo tagging

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Identify and storage of information by latitude and longitude coordinates (concerns about privacy)

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Behavioral Geography

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emphasizes importance of understanding the basis of individual human action in space

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Region

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An area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics

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VGI (volunteered geographic information)

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Creation and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and free by individuals

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Latitude

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Numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel

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International date line

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An arc that mostly follows 180 degrees longitude
clock moves 24 hours when crossed
East - back, west - ahead

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Mashup

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Map that overlays data from one source on top of a map by a mapping surface

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Transitional Corporation

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Conducts research, operates factories and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principal shareholders are located

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power or other persons or places

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Conection

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Refers to relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Remote sensing

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Acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long distance methods

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Toponym

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Name given to places on Earth

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Globalization

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Force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope

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GPS (global positioning system)

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System determines precise position of something on Earth

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Cultural Landscape

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A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation

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Functional/nodal regions

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An area organized around a node or focal point

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Cartogram

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map. the country/state size is proportional to data

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Space

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Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects

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Pattern

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Geometric arrangement of objects in space

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Erosion

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Occurs when the soil washes away in rain or blows away in the wind

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Humanistic geography

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emphasizes different ways individuals form ideas about places and give places symbolic meaning

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Syncretism

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Combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature

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Cultural Ecology

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Geographic study of human-environment relationships

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Acculturation

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The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups

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Ecosystem

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Group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact

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Culture

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Body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people

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Place

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Specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic

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Assimilation

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Process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group

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GIS (geographic information system)

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captures, stores, queries, and displays geographic data

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Uneven development

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Increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in core and periphery that results from globalization of economy

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Citizen science

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Scientific research by ametur scientists

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Density

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Frequency with which something occurs in space

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Contagious diffusion

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rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

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Diffusion

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Process by which a feature spreads across from one place to another over time

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Participatory GIS

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Community based mapping

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Chloropleth map

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map that uses varying shades of a color to show data

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Distribution

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Arrangement of something across Earth’s surface

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Climate

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Long term average weather conditions at a particular location

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Space time compression

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The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place

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Stimulus diffusion

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Spread of underlying principle even though a characteristic itself is apparently fails to diffuse

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Vernacular/perceptual region

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an area that people believe exists as a part of their culture identity

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Hearth

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A place from which innovation originates

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Site

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The physical character of a place

65
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Dot distribution map

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Map that uses dots to show data

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Scale

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relationship between portion of Earth being studied as a whole

67
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Poststructuaralist geography

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APHuG (11 decks)

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