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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Observing people, what they’re doing, they’re actions, and develop maps

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Geographic Fieldwork

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Highlights position of people and things affect what happens and why

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Location

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Interactions between people and the physical world

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Human Environment

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Similarities can be dependent on specific places

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Region

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All places have unique physical characteristics

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Place

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Refers to mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet

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Movement

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Visible imprint of human activity on the landscape

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Culture Landscape

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The art and science of making maps

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Cartography

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Tells stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon

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Thematic Maps

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Describes location of a place in relation to other human and physical features, change over time

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Relative Location

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Shows a persons activity space - Places we know

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Mental Map

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Gathers data at a distance from Earths surface, collected by satellites and aircraft

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Remote Sensing

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Compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment, can help monitor natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, also used to analyze data

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Geographic Information Systems

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An emerging research field concerned with studying geospatial concepts and techniques

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G.I.S.ci

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Distance on a map compared to distance on earth, and spatial extent of something

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Scale

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Marked by homogeneity in one or more circumstance. Has a shared trait, cultural or physical.

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Formal Region

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Defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. Boundaries are in which the location ends.

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Functional Region

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Ever changing by society and events. Not static, and can be difficult to find or understand.

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Perceptual Region

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Something associated with the culture

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Cultural Trait

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Where cultural traits develop

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Cultural Hearth

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When ideas, people, or goods move across space, this process of dissemination is called blank.

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Cultural Diffusion

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Time/Distance in diffusion process

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Time Distance Decay

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Can stop spread of ideas or innovations

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Culture Barriers

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Rapid spread in a culture trait

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Expansion Diffusion

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A form of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected.

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Contagious Diffusion

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A pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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Vague, unattainable, different, impracticable, yet effective and impactful

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Stimulus Diffusion

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When migrants move from their land they take their traits with them (carry ideas to a new location)

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Relocation Diffusion

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Natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture

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Possibility

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An area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to and alteration of environment

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Culture Ecology

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Area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the environmental consequences of dominate political economic arrangements

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Political Ecology

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Informational, shows boundaries and place names.

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Reference Maps

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Type of map. Examples include subway system maps, theme park maps, map of mall.

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Topographical

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Uses colors or shading to represent quantifiable data. (Usually shows density, but not distribution)

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Choropleth Map

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Places a dot representing a value in its approximate location. (very good to show distribution)

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Dot Map

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Feature symbols proportional in size to the actual value of the data. (Sometimes too cluttered)

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Graduated Symbol Maps

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Connect areas of equal value with lines (looks like a fingerprint often) Used for weather maps but can be difficult to interpret unless colors are used.

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Isoline Map

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Distorts the appearance of places on the map to represent their value. China and India on a map of world population would be larger than all other countries.

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Cartogram Map

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Takes the spherical shape of the Earth and displays it on a flat surface.

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Map Projection

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Preserved shapes of land features at the expense of distorting their true size.

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Conformal Projection

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Distorts the oceans to preserve size of landmasses.

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Equal-Area Projection

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Latitude and Longitude shown at right angles, preserves shape but distorts size massively at higher latitudes, commonly used for navigation.

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Mercator Projection

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Preserved size but distorts shape, image appears opposite of Mercator.

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Gall Peters Projection

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Preserved size and shape of continents but distorts polar areas, compromise projection often used in published atlases.

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Robinson Projection

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Interrupted projection removes much of the oceans to preserve size and shape of land masses, often used for thematic maps.

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Goodes Projection

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Characteristics that don’t change like latitude and longitude.

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Absolute Location

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Where a place is in relation to somewhere else.

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Relative Location

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How different places interact with each other. Could be information, people, or goods from one place to another.

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Flows

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The farther away one place is from another the less interaction those 2 places will have. Less severe today due to technology like airplanes and internet.

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Distance Decay

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The reduction of time it takes for something to get from one place to another.

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Time Spaced Compression

51
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How are objects arranged in space?

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Pattern

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