UNIT 1: Chapter Two - 1.4 & 1.5, Pages 30-37 Flashcards
Space
The area between two or more phenomena or things.
Location
Identifies where specific phenomena are located either on a grid system or relative to another location.
Place
The specific human and physical characteristics of a location.
Region
A group of places in the same area that share a characteristic.
Site
The characteristics at the immediate location
Situation
The location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.
Sense of Place
Related to the concept of place (attachment, sentiment, emotional ties someone has with a place).
Toponym
Provides insight into the physical geography, the history, or the culture of the location (place names).
Time-space Compression
The reduction of time it takes for something or someone to get from one place to another.
Spatial Interaction
The contact, movement, and flow of things between locations.
Flow
The patterns and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena.
Friction of Distance
distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome (Indicates that when things are farther apart, they tend to be less connected.)
Distance Decay
how the strength of a relationship between people, places, or systems decreases as the separation between them increases
Human-Environment Interaction
The connection and exchange between humans and the natural world
Built Environment
The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape
