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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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Arithmetic density

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The total number of objects in an area, commonly used to compare the distribution of population.

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Base line

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East west lines separating townships.

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Cartography

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The science of mapmaking.

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Concentration

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The extent of a feature’s spread over space.

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Connections

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Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

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Contagious diffusion

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.

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Cultural Ecology

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The geographic study of human environment relationships.

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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 gestures such as climate and vegetation.

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Culture

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The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

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Density

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The frequency with which something occurs in space.

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Diffusion

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The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time.

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Distance decay

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Usually, the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact.

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Distribution

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The arrangement of a feature in space.

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14
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Environmental determinism

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The physical environment caused social development.

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Expansion Diffusion

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The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.

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Formal region

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An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.

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Functional region

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An area organized around a node or focal point.

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Geographic information system (GIS)

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A computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data (in layers).

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

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A system that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth.

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Agricultural density

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The number of farmers per unit of farmland.

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Globalization

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A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

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Greenwich mean time (GMT)

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The time at the prime meridian (0 longitude). The master reference time for all points on earth.

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Hearth

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The place from which an innovation originates.

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Hierarchical diffusion

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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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International date line

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Mostly follows 180 longitude, moves clock back 24 hours if you are headed east for America.

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Land ordinance of 1785

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It divided most of US into a system of townships and ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settlers in the west.

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Latitude

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The numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel.

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Location

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The posture on that some bring occupies on earth’s surface.

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Longitude

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The distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich.

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Map

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A two dimensional or flat scale model of the earths surface, or a portion of it.

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Meridian

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An arc drawn between north and south poles.

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Parallel

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A circle drawn around the globe, parallel to the equator, and right angle to the meridians.

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Pattern

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The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

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Physiology density

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The number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture.

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Place

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A specific pint on earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.

36
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Polder

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A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

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Possibilism

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The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment.

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Prime meridian

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The meridian that passes through the royal observatory at Greenwhich, England, is 0 longitude.

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Principal meridian

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North south lines separating townships.

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Projection

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The scientific method of transferring locations on Earths surface to a flat map.

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Region

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An area of earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

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Regional studies

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Each region has its own distinctive landscape that results from a unique combination of so ail relationships and physical properties.

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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

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Remote sensing

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The acquisition of data about earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting earth or from other long distance methods.

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Resource

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Substance that are useful to people, economically and technological feasible to access, and socially acceptable to use.

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Scale

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The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole.

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Sections

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Township divided in 36 sections, 1•1 mile, numbered in order from northeast to southeast.

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Site

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The physical character of a place.

49
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Situation

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The location of a place relative to other places.

50
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Space

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The physical gap or interval between two objects.

51
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Space time compression

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The reduction in time I takes for something to reach another place.

52
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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. (McDonalds in India)

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Toponym

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The name given to a place on earth.

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Township

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A square 6 miles on each side in this system.

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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.

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Uneven development

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The increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy.

57
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Vernacular region

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A place people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

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