Unit 1 voacb Flashcards
test thursday january 16
Absolute Location
The exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude.
Core
Classification of a country or region that has weath, higher education levels, more advance technologies, many resources , strong militaries ,and powerful allies.
Density
The number of things,people ,animals or objects in a specific area.
Distance Decay
A principle stating that the father away one things is from another the less interaction the two things will have.
Disturbe
To arrange within a given space
Ecological Perspective
The relationship between livings things and their environment.
Environmental Determinism
The idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controlled or determined by the physical environment.
Formal Region
An area that has one or more shared traits; also called uniform region.
Friction of Distance
A concept that states that the longer the journey is, the more time, effort and cost it will involve.
Functional Region
An area organized by its function around a focal point , or the center of an interest or activity.
Globalization
The expansion of economics culture and political processes on a worldwide scale.
Human Geography
The study of the process that have shaped how humans understand, sue and altar the earth.
Location
the position that a point or objects occupies on earth.
Mental Map
internalized representation of portions of earth surface
Model
A representation of reality that present significant features or relationships in a generalized form
Node
The focal point of a functional region
Pattern
The way in which things are arranged in a particular space
Perceptual region
A type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a vernacular region
Periphery
Classification of a country or a region that has less weather, lower education levels, and less sophisticated technology and also tends to have a unstable government and poor heath systems
Physical Geography
The study of natural process and the distribution of features in the environment , such as land forms,plants, animals ,soil and climate
Place
A location on earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics
Possiblism
Theory of human-environment interaction that states that humans have the ability to adapt the physical environment to their needs
Region
An area of Earth’s surface with certain characteristics that makes it distinct yet cohesive from other areas
Relative location
A description of where a place is in relation to other places or features
Scale
The area of the world being studied
Semi-periphery
Classification of a country or a region that has qualities of both core and peripheral and is often in the process of industrializing
Site
A places absolute location as well as its physical characteristic such as land forms climate and resources
Situation
Location of a place in relations to other places or its surroundings features
Space
The area between two or more things
Spatial Perspective
Geographic perspective that focuses on how people live on earth how they organize themselves and why the events of human societies occurs where they do
Sustainability
The use of Earth’s land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future
Sustainable development
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Time-space compression
A key geographic principle that describes they way in which modern transportation and communication technology have aloud humans to travel and communicate over long distances quicker and easier
Vernacular region
A type of region that reflects peoples feelings and attitudes about a place also called a perceptual region
World system theory
Theory describing the spatial an functional relationships between countries in the world economy categorizes country’s part of a hierarchy consisting of the core periphery and semi-periphery
Absolute distance
Distance can be measured using a standard unit of length
Absolute direction
The cardinal directions north,south,east and west
Cartographer
A person who makes maps
Cenus
An official count of the numbers of people in a defined area such as a state
Geographic information system (GIS)
A computer system that allows for the collection organization and display geographic data for analysis
Global positioning system (GPS)
A network of satellites that orbit earth and transment location data to receivers enabling user to pin point their exact location
Map scale
The relationships of the size of the map to the size of an area it represent on earth surface
Quantitative
Involving data that can be measured by numbers
Qualitative
Involving data that is descriptive of a research subject and is often based on peoples opinion
Reference map
A map that focuses on the location of places
Relative distance
Distance determined in relations to other places or objects
Relative direction
Direction based on a person perception such as left ,right,up and down
Remote sensing
Collecting or analyzing data from a location without making physical contract
Thematic map
Any map that focuses on one or more variables to show a relationship between geographic data
Topography
The representation of Earth’s surface to show man made and natural features especially their relative positions and elevations
