Unit 1: 1.1 Flashcards

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Tobler’s first law

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The first law indicates that although all things on Earth are related the closer two things are the more relation there is
Examples: The closer pages in a book are the more they carry correspondence

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Concentration

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Concentration is how close something or someone is in a certain are or space
Examples: each desk is around 3 inches apart ( C = closeness )

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Built Environment

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Something that is created and then executed on the Earth’s surface
Example: My home is a built environment

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Physical Geography

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Physical geography’s the evaluation of natural processes and characteristics of the environment
Example: landforms, plants, animals, and climate

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Human Geography

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The study of occurrences that impact the way humans understand
Examples: The way humans evolve socially, politically, and economically

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Spatial perspective

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This refers to the place in which something happens. Where things are located, why the happen to be
Examples: I’m in school, because I am legally required to be

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Ecologically Perspective

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These are the relationships between the living things and the environments they live in
Examples: Plants interact with the sun by turning it into every ( ECOsystem = ECOlogical )

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Location

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The place that an item belongs/ space taken up on earth
Examples: My house’s location is in Plainfield

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Absolute Location

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The exact place in which and object “lives” Often in coordinates / addresses
Examples: Hungary is located at 47.50N, 19.04E ( never changes )

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Relative Location

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This is when a something’s location is describes by what is around it
Examples: Batman’s relative location is to the right of the Flash

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Place

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This is similar but different from location. A place is a destination on earth that can be differentiated by it’s human characteristics E.g. climate, landforms, soils, waters, languages, religion, political, and economic systems etc.

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Mental Map

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These are when you frequent a place enough that you began to imagine it’s route. You could probably draw a fairly accurate map from memory E.g. of town, neighborhood, or school
Examples: I go to Six Flags so much that I can imagine my way around

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Site

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This refers to the physical characteristics as well as the absolute location AKA place + absolute location
Example: The site of Barcelona is located on a plain with Besoms river to the North and Llobregat river to the south

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Situation

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This refers to the place location in relation to others ( relative location )
Examples: Barcelona is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea, which historically controlled the Western portion

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Space

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Although with multiple definitions, space means the amount of available territory between two or more objects
Examples: There is a lot of space between my bed and door

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Distributed

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To arrange things within a given space
Examples: I can see how posters are evenly distributed on the wall

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Density

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This is the amount of something in a given area
Examples: Density = Digits

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Pattern

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How things may be arranged in a specific shape. This is also a factor of distribution
Examples: The amount of fast food establishments in a town

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Flow

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The flow of something, whether people, goods, or information it is it’s movement
Examples: Information In the town travels within hours

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Environmental Determinism

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This is the theory that the environment around humans directly effects their behaviors
Examples: Bears hibernate as a reaction to their environment

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Possiblism

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This states that humans have the ability to adapt to their environments. The ecosystems only provides opportunity, it’s the organism’s job to take it
Examples: Plants grow in different directions in order to obtain sunlight as successfully as possible

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Sustainability

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Sustainability is like an investment in the future. It means to use the Earth’s natural material in a way that promises it’ll be available in the future
Examples: Being aware whether the item you are using is renewable or non-renewable

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Distance Decay

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This principle says that the farther two things are from each other the less they interact vice versa
Examples: When my friend moved away we didn’t keep in contact as much ( higher # of interaction –> lower # of distance )

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Friction of distance

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This says time (t), effort (e), and currency (c) must be put in, in order to overcome distances.
Examples: It took 18 hours (t) to arrive in Ghana, cost $2,000 (c), and we had to make sure we didn’t miss our flight (e)

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Time space compression
This is similar to friction of distance, it describes the transformation that makes distance between A & B shrink Example: 1830: 15 days from New York --> Europe and Today: 7.5 hours from New York --> Europe