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Unit 1 Flashcards

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Accessibility

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Definition: the measure of how practical it is to access, approach, enter, or reach a certain area.
Significance: to know how realistic it is to enter a certain region from a specific location. Globalization is shrinking the world.
Example: Entrance to a country, ability to cross a border, communication between regions of the world.

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Cartography

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Definition: the study and production of maps.
Significance: to better acknowledge the location of landforms and borders all around the world. The ability to show anything on a map and share knowledge.
Examples: maps of North America, South America, studies of mountains and other important landforms

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Concentration

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Definition: much like density…. It is a measure of how much matter there is according to the amount of space taken up.
Significance: to accurately measure and describe landforms, populations, etc.
Examples: description of the size of a population, description of the number of immigrants

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Cultural ecology

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Definition: the study of human relationships relating to their geography
Significance: By studying how humans interact according to their environment, much can be learned oh how geography affects relations.
Examples: interactions between different civilizations, study of behavior chances due to changes in the environment in a certain location

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Culture

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Definition: the customs, beliefs, and common traits that categorize a group of people and determine their specific traditions.
Significance: to better appreciate the variety in groups of people all around the world and to acknowledge the traditions that define certain civilizations.
Examples: American culture vs. Mexican culture.

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Density

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Definition: the measure of how often something occurs or how common it is.
Significance: to learn how numerous a population or certain factor is.
Examples: population, cars, volcanoes, mountains, anything measurable.

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Diffusion

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Definition: the process by which an idea or concept may spread to several civilizations spread out in different regions of the world.
Significance: to observe how similar traits are developed by very different people located far apart.
Examples: development through communication or complicated interactions.

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Distribution

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Definition: the way features are arranged in a certain space.
Significance: to better understand the function of certain features according to density, concentration, and patterns.
Examples: the way resources are “handed out”, how large a piece of land is, where specific cultures can be found.

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Environmental determinism

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Definition: a study that specializes in the way physical landforms and the general environment inspire changes in social behavior and development.
Significance: to better understand how environment affects human behavior and culture.
Examples: how mountains affect the way a population lives, the way people develop in 3rd world countries.

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Friction of distance

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Definition: a measure of the negative effect distance may have on interactions.
Significance: to observe how communication or interactions may be retarded by a great distance.
Examples: countries being far apart, civilizations trying to interact but are too distant to do so in a practical manner.

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Geographic Information System

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Definition: the study and management of geographic data
Significance: to store and display data in an organized manner. The study of this data can help determine the safety of a place.
Examples: mash-ups which overlay information, mapping software, hotels and neighborhoods can be mapped.

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Globalization

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Definition: a process which involves the whole world and becomes important and used worldwide.
Significance: to track down what affects worldwide chances and how these international interactions happen.
Examples: choice of crop, industrialization, manufacturing.

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Greenwich Mean Time

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Definition: this method is used to estimate the average international time
Significance: defines military time and used in the international space station.
Examples: atomic time clock, military time, also known as Zulu Time

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International Date Line

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Definition: an imaginary line that stretches from north to south of the Earth.
Significance: helps determine date by marking when new days are formed.
Examples: when it is 3 A.M. Monday in Singapore, it is 5 A.M. Monday in Sydney. When it is 8 p.m. in Rome, it is 9 p.m. In Jerusalem.

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Latitude

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Definition: a system in which horizontally parallel lines drawn on the globe are used to measure how south or north of the equator a location is.
Significance: to be able to find the exact location of a site or distance between regions.
Examples: NYC is located 41 degrees north of the equator, Chile is located at 33 degrees south latitude

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Location

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Definition: the exact place where something is located and the space in occupies on Earth’s surface. May be expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude when referring to absolute location. The relative location is given when the relative position is estimated
Significance: to accurately find a place using an internationally known concept
Examples: 180 degrees East of the Prime Meridian, 90degrees North of the Equator

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Longitude

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Definition: the distance west or east of the prime meridian measured in degrees.
Significance: like latitude, it is used to find the precise location of a place on Earth’s surface.
Examples: San Diego is found at 117 degrees west longitude, Tianjin (China) is found at 117 degrees east longitude

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Map

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Definition: representation of Earth’s surface which is two dimensional (flat).
Significance: maps are relied on to display geographic information.
Examples: satellite images of Earth, sketches of the Globe, diagrams of countries

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Meridian

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Definition: a circular shape drawn from the north to the South Pole.
Significance: longitude and latitude determine where the meridian is at and it is used to give locations a specific degree according to how east, or west it is from the meridians. It also helps define time zones.
Examples: prime meridian, meridian which is 180 degrees in longitude.

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Movement

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Definition:
Significance:
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Parallel

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Definition: a circle which stretches around the World which is located at right angles from the meridians and parallel to the equator. Latitude is used to indicate where a parallel is located.
Significance: to determine how south or north a specific location is.
Examples: the equator, 90 degrees north latitude(North Pole), 33 degrees north latitude(San Diego).

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Pattern. S

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Definition: the way an item is arranged regularly or geometrically in a certain area.
Significance:
Examples: Land Ordinance of 1785, grid pattern, geometric pattern, irregular pattern.

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Possibilism

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Definition: the idea that an environment can create limits on the way a civilization develops unless the people adjust their ways and adapt to their new habitat.
Significance: to better understand the way people react to changes in their surroundings.
Examples: changes in climate, overpopulation, pollution

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Prime Meridian

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Definition: an imaginary line of longitude used to measure how far East or West a location is.
Significance: to split the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Examples: its longitude is defined as 0 degrees, 30 degrees East passes through astern Africa, 68 of East degrees longitude.

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Projection SE

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Definition: a system or plan used to illustrate locations or regions in Earth to a map.
Significance:
Examples:

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Region.

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Definition: an area which is defined by its unique combination of features.
Significance: to differentiate separate locations according to characteristics.
Examples: North America, Africa, Europe.

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Regional Studies. SE

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Definition: studies which focus on learning more about geography by observing social and physical relationships in a specific area.
Significance:
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Remote Sensing. SE

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Definition: the process by which information about the Earth’s surface is acquired by a method which is located at a great distance.
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Examples: Satellite

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Resource. SE

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Definition: a certain substance which is useful to people in an economic manner which is accessible and acceptable to use.
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Scale

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Definition: the comparison between the specific area being studied and the whole Earth.
Significance: used to refer to more understandable measurements than realistic ones.
Examples: inches vs hundreds of miles, centimeters vs kilometers.

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Site

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Definition: A characteristic found on land.
Significance: used to describe a location and its ability to sustain life.
Examples: weather, water sources, latitude, elevation, plantlike

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Situation

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Definition: the certain location of a place by comparing it to a familiar site.
Significance: to better understand the importance of newfound places and to learn their accessibility.
Examples: to be able able to locate a new home by its proximity to a well-known restaurant, Singapore’s importance.

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Space-time Compression

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Definition: the improvement in communication all over the world which leads in a decreasing required amount of time for information to travel from one part of the Earth to another.
Significance: to have more knowledge of other regions of the world. Especially ones that are far away. And promote quicker change.
Examples: diffusion, rapid cultural change, better connections between places

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Toponym

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Definition: the specific name given to a landform or location on Earth. May be someone’s name such as the founder or a random celebrity.
Significance : to find appropriate names in order to refer to everything in a precise and clear manner.
Examples: Mt. Everest, Nile River

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Uneven development. SE

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Definition: when the gap between economic conditions worsens between regions (core and peripheral) due to economical globalization.
Significance:
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Vernacular region. SE

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Definition: a specific area which groups of people believe exist due to cultural ideas.
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Space. SE

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Definition: the interval or distance between any two objects.
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Sequent Occupance

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