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Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards

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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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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 environments

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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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An area that has one or more shared traits’ also called a uniform region

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Formal region

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A concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve

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Friction of distance

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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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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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Internalized representations of portions on Earth’s surface

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Mental map

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A representation of reality that presents significant features or relationships in a generalized form

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Model

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The focal point of a functional region

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Node

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The way in which things are arranged in a particular space

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Pattern

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A type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes in a particular region

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Perceptual region

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

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Region

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

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Relative location

25
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The area of the world being studied

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Scale

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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-periphery

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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

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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

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

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Spatial perspective

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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

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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

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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 more quickly and easily

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Time-space compression

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

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Vernacular region

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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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Distance that can be measured using a standard unit of length

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Absolute distance

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The cardinal directions north, south, east, and west

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Absolute direction

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A person who creates maps

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Cartographer

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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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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 user to pinpoint their exact location

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Global positioning system (GPS)

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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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Involving data that can be measured by numbers

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Quantitative

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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

45
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A map that focuses on the location of places

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Reference map

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A distance determined in relation to other places of objects

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Relative distance

47
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Direction based on a person’s perception, such as left, right, up, or down

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Relative direction

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Collecting or analyzing data from a location without making physical contact

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Remote sensing

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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 map

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The representation of Earth’s surface to show natural and human-made features, especially their relative positions and elevations

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Topography

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