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Mr. Samson: Unit 1 - Thinking Geographically Flashcards

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Considers the arrangement of the phenomena being Studied across the surface of the earth. Important considerations of this approach include location, distance, direction, orientation, pattern, and interconnection.

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Spatial Approach

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The study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment.

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Physical Geography

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The study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities.

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Human Geography

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The precise spot where something is according to some system, typically found using longitude and latitude.

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Absolute Location

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The distance north and south of the equator.

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Latitude

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An imaginary line that circles the globe exactly halfway between the North and South Poles.

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Equator

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The distance east or west of the prime meridian

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Longitude

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An imaginary line that runs from pole to pole through Greenwich, England.

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Prime Meridian

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Roughly follows the prime meridian but makes deviations to accommodate international boundaries.

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International Date Line

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A description of where something is in relation to other things.

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Relative Location

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How well two locations are tied together by roads or other links.

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Connectivity

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How quickly and easily people in one location can interact with people in another location.

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Accesibility

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Abandoned settelments of the western United States. Their good relative locations lost the advantages that they once had, however, their absolute locations remain the same.

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Ghost Towns

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Refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location.

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Place

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A group of places in the same area that share a characteristic.

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Region

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Characteristics at the immidate location (soil type, climate, labor force, human structures, etc…)

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Site

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The location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places.

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Situation

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How humans percive an area based on their personal belifes and emotional connection.

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Sense of Place

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Place names– provides insights into the physical geography, the history, or the culture of the location

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Toponyms

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The measurement of how far or near things are to one another.

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Distance

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The degree of nearness.

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Proximity

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The contact, movement, and flow of things between locations. Connections may be physical (roads) or through information (radios and Internet).

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Spatial Interaction

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When things are farther apart, they tend to be less well connected.

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Friction of Distance

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The idea that when things are farther apart, they tend to be less well connected.

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Friction of Distance

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The number of something in a specivically defined area (the number of people per square mile).

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Density

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The way a phenomenon is spread out over an area.

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Distribution

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Matching patterns of distribution that indicates two or more phenomena may be related, or associated with one another.

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Spatial Association

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The connection and exchange between humans and the natural world.

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Human-Environment Interaction

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How humans adapt to the environment.

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Cultural Ecology

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The belief that landforms and the climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior.

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Environmental Dererminism

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A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more in the role that human culture plays.

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Possibilism

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The task of defining and describing landscapes.

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Landscape Analysis

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The act of physically visiting a location, place, or reigeon and recording, firsthand, information there.

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Field Observation

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All the information that can be tied to a specific location.

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Spatial Data

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Professional images captured from planes within the atmosphere.

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Aerial Photography

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The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape (buildings, roads, signs, fences, etc…).

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Built Environment

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Anything built by humans.

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Cultural Landscape

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The general arrangements of things being studied.

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Patterns

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The repeted sequence of events that create patterns.

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Processes

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The ratio is the between the size of things in the real world and the size of those same things on a map.

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Scale

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The way a map communicates the ratio of its size to the size of what it represents.

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Cartographic Scale

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Sometimes refered to as relative scale and refers to the amount of territory that the map represents.

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Geographic Scale

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Sometimes refered to as geographical scale and refers to the amount of territory that the map represents.

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Relative Scale

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Designed for people to refer to for general information about places.

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Refrence Maps

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Show and label human-created boundaries and designations, such as counties, states, cities, and capitals.

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Political Maps

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Show and label natural features such as mountains, rivers, and deserts.

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Physical Map

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Show and label highways,streets, and alleys.

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Road Map

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Show and label property lines and details of land ownership.

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Plat Maps

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Illustrations used in books and advertisements to show specific locations mentioned in the text.

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Locator Maps

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Show spatial aspects of information or of a phenomenon.

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Thematic Map

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Uses various colors, shades of one color, or paterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data.

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Choropleth Maps

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Used to show the specific location and distribution of something across the territory of a map. Each dot represents a specific quantity.

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Dot Distribution Maps

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Uses symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something. Larger sizes indicate a larger quantity while smaller sized indicate a smaler quality.

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Graduated Symbol Maps

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Uses lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in data across space

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Isoline Maps

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A type of isoline map – points of equal elevation are connected, creationg contours that depict surface features.

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Topographic Maps

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The sizes of countries (or states, counties, or another areal unit) are shown according to some specific statistic.

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Cartogram

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The process to showing a curved surface on a flat surcace.

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Map Projection

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Representations of reality or theories

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Geogaphic Models

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Projection of a map of the world on to a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, used especially for marine charts and certain climatological maps.

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Mercator Map Projection

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Map projection in which areas are shown in correct proportion at the expense of distorted shape, using a rectangular decimal grid to replace latitude and longitude. It was devised in 1973 to be a fairer representation of equatorial (i.e. mainly developing) countries, whose area is underrepresented by the usual projections such as Mercator’s.

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Peters Projection

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A0 map projection in which an area of the earth is projected onto a cone whose vertex is usually above one of the poles, then unrolled onto a flat surface.

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Conic Projection

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The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image.

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Robinson Projection

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United by physical, cultural, or economic traits.

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Formal Regions/ Uniform Reigons/ Homogeneous Regions

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Organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity that occus across the reigon.

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Functional Regions/ Nodal Regions

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The informal sense of place that people ascribe to them.

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Perceptual Regions/ Vernacular Regions

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The maps that people create in their minds based on their own experiences and knowledge.

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Mental Maps

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Regions divided into smaller areas.

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Subregions

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Data that is observed and recorded on on location, and the act of collecting it.

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Fieldwork

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Information that is measured and recorded using numbers.

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Quantitative Data

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Information that is collected through interviews, documents, and visual observations.

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Qualitative Data

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