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The scanning of Earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it
Remote Sensing
The placements or arrangement of objects on Earth’s surface; also includes the space between those objects
Spatial Patterns
A map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes, and sometimes the relationships between them
Thematic Map
How a person feels about a particular place and why it’s important to him or her
Sense of Place
The areas we occupy as humans; it has no value until the people who occupy it make it their own
Space
Geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a specific country
National Scale Analysis
a process of organizing the use of land to meet the occupant’s needs while respecting the capabilities of the land
Land Use
A region where cultural markers overlap and blend into a recognizable culture
Border Zones
A geographical unit based on one or more common characteristics or functions
Reigon
Where a person goes and what he or she does on a day-to-day basis
Activity space
A geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically as one unit
Functional REigon
Geographical scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a particular region
REigonal Scale anayliss
The distance on a map in relation to distance in actual space; for example, 1 inch on a map might indicate a distance of 100 miles
Map Scale
A geographic perspective that seeks to identify and explain the uses of space
Spatial perspective
The mental images that comprise humans’ perception of nature; environmental perception may be accurate or inaccurate
Environmental Perception
A map that shows geographic locations on Earth’s surface, such as the locations of cities or oceans
Reference map
The number of individual items in a particular area
Density
A map projection that looks down at Earth from the perspective of one of the poles (North or South)
Polar projection
The physical and human forces that work together to form and transform the world
Geographic Processess
The territorial extent of an idea or object
Scale
Geographic Scale that looks at geographic phenomena across the entire world
Global scale
How we modify space based on who we are as a group of people
Place
The level of analysis that explores relationships between phenomena and humans with the most detail. It is also the most malleable of scales.
Local scale
A graphic representation of the three-dimensional configuration of Earth’s surface
Topographic map
A number of similar things grouped together
Cluster
A measurement of the level of social, cultural, or economic similarity between places despite their absolute distance from each other
RElative scale
The zero-degree longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England; also known as the Greenwich Meridian
Prime meridian
Consisting of, derived from, or relating to data that is directly linked to specific geographical locations.
Geospatial
The process of examining patterns and processes within and between regions at multiple geographic scales (Local, National, regional, and Global)
Reigonal analaysis
The distance that can be measured with a standard unit length, such as a mile or kilometer.
Absolute distance
Graphic elements that help organize the information in a map, such as (but not limited to) dots, stars, arrows, squares, and dotted lines
Map symbols
Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space
Spatial
A thematic map that shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area, often using different colors to represent different values
Choropleth Map
The distribution of individual items in a geographic area
Dispersal
The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is a passive product of its physical surroundings
Environmental Determinism
A map that uses dots to represent objects or counts; the dot can represent one object (a one-to-one dot density map) or it can represent a number of objects (a one-to-many dot density map)
Dot Density/Distribution Map
The inhibiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of most forms of human interaction; time space compression diminishes friction of distance
Friction of distance
The process of collecting and organizing large amounts of information
Data Aggregation
Subjective information that is opinion-based, usually descriptive, and often expressed as text.
Qualitative
A direction that can be described as position, such as in front of or behind, to the left or to the right
Relative Direction
A map projection that avoids shape distortion and the restrictions of a rectangular map by creating “interruptions” in the map’s continuity; in each section, map projection regions are shown “equally” like an orange peel being laid out in a flat surface
Goode Homolosine Projection
a map projection that shows all landmassess with their true areas but distorts their shapes
Peters projection
The built forms that cultural groups create inhabiting Earth - farm fields, cities, houses, and so on - and the meaning, values, representations and experiences associated with those forms
Cultural landscape
a personal representation of a portion of Earth’s Surface
Mental map
Geographic perspective that acknowledges the two-way relationship between local communities and global patterns, emphasizing that the forces of globalization need to take into account local-scale cultural, economic, and environmental conditions
GLobal perspective
The awareness of belonging to a group of people within a region
Reigonal identity
A geographic area that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants, based on the widespread acceptance and use of a unique regional name
Perceptual/Vernacular Region
A territorially bounded system consisting of the interaction between humans and the environment
Eco system
Geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a state or province, a city or town or neighborhood
Local scale anaylsis
A system of 24 satellites that orbit Earth twice daily and transmit radio signals Earthward; the basis for many map based-apps that provide directions on how to get from one place to another
GPS
The study of the interactions between societies and their local environments
Cultural ecology
A map that distorts the geographic shape of an area in order to show the size of a specific variable the larger the area on a cartogram, the larger the value of the underlying variable
Cartogram
A map that uses symbols (such as circles or dots) of differents sizes to represent numerical values
Proportional or Graduated Circle Map
The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarized by the phrase “the world is shrinking”
Time-space Compression
An area composed of a heavily populated urban core and its less populated surrounding areas
Metropolitan Area
The ratio of a distance on Earth compared to the same distance on a map.
Cartographic scale
Distance above sea level
Elevation
On a map, a line that connects or links different places that share a common or equal value such as elevation
Isoline
Central Points where the functions of a functional region are coordinated and directed
Nodes
The ties established between regions and countries that over time collectively create a global economic system that is not necessarily based on equality.
Interdependence
Corresponds to the direction on a compass; north, south, east, west, and combinations such as northeast and southwest
Absolute direction
