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Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards

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1
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the cardinal directions north, south, east, and west

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Absolute Direction

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distance that can be measured using a standard unit of length

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Absolute Distance

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the exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude

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Absolute Location

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a person who creates maps

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Cartographers

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an official count of the number of people in a defined area, such as a state

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Census

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classification of a country or region that has wealth, higher education levels, more advanced technologies, many resources, strong militaries, and powerful allies

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Core

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the number of things—people, animals, or objects—in a specific area

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Density

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a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have

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Distance Decay

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to arrange within a given space

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Distribute

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the relationships between living things and their environment

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Ecological Perspective

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the idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controlled, or determined by the physical environment

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Environmental Determinism

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movement of people, goods, or information that has economic, social, political, or cultural effects on societies

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Flow

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an area that has one or more shared traits; also called a uniform region

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Formal Region

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an area organized by its function around a focal point, or the center of an interest or activity

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Functional Region

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a computer system that allows for the collection, organization, and display of geographic data for analysis

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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a network of satellites that orbit Earth and transmit location data to receivers, enabling users to pinpoint their exact location

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

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the expansion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a worldwide scale

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Globalization

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the study of the processes that have shaped how humans understand, use, and alter Earth.

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Human Geography

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The position that a point or object occupies on Earth.

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Location

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the relationship of the size of the map to the size of the area it represents on Earth’s surface

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Map Scale

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internalized representations of portions of Earth’s surface

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Mental Maps

22
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the focal point of a functional region

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Node

23
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the way in which things are arranged in a particular space

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Pattern

24
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a type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a vernacular region

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Perceptual Region

25
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classification of a country or region that has less wealth, lower education levels, and less sophisticated technologies and also tends to have an unstable government and poor health systems

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Periphery

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the study of natural processes and the distribution of features in the environment, such as landforms, plants, animals, soil, and climate

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Physical Geography

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a location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics

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Place

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theory of human-environment interaction that states that humans have the ability to adapt the physical environment to their needs

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Possibilism

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involving data that is descriptive of a research subject and is often based on people’s opinions

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Qualitative

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involving data that can be measured by numbers

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Quanitative

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a map that focuses on the location of places

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Reference Maps

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an area of Earth’s surface with certain characteristics that make it distinct yet cohesive from other areas

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Region

33
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direction based on a person’s perception, such as left, right, up, or down

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Relative Direction

34
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distance determined in relation to other places or objects

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Relative Distance

35
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a description of where a place is in relation to other places or features

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Relative Location

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a method of collecting or analyzing data from a location without making physical contact

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Remote Sensing

37
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the area of the world being studied

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Scale

38
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classification of a country or region that has qualities of both core and peripheral areas and is often in the process of industrializing

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Semi-Periphey

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a place’s absolute location, as well as its physical characteristics, such as the landforms, climate, and resources

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Site

40
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location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features

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Situation

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the area between two or more things

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Space

42
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geographic perspective that focuses on how people live on Earth, how they organize themselves, and why the events of human societies occur where they do

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Spatial Perspective

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less densely populated residential and commercial areas surrounding a city

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Suburbs

44
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the use of Earth’s land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future

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Sustainability

45
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development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

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Sustainable Development

46
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any map that focuses on one or more variables to show a relationship between geographic data

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Thematic Maps

47
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a system of ideas intended to explain certain phenomena

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Theory

48
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a key geographic principle that describes the ways in which modern transportation and communication technology have allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances quicker and easier

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Time-space compression

49
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the representation of earth’s surface to show natural and man-made features, especially their relative positions and elevations

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Topography

50
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a type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a perceptual region

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Vernacular Region

51
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theory describing the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy; categorizes countries as part of a hierarchy consisting of the core, periphery, and semi-periphery

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World System Theory

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