Unit 1 vocab Flashcards
Absolute distance
The distance that can be measured with a standard unit length, such as a mile or kilometer.
Absolute location
The position of place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0° to 90° north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0° to 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
Accessibility
The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location, in relation to other locations.
Concentration
The extent of a feature’s spread over space; not same as density. Can have same density but completely different this
Connectivity
The directness of routes linking pairs of places; an indication of the degree of internal connection in a transport network; all of the tangible and intangible means of connection and communication between places.
Cultural landscape
A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation. (defined by Carl Sauer as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group) [Cultural Attributes]
Density
The frequency with which something occurs in space (can be measures of people, houses, cars, volcanoes, or anything, with any method of measurement)
Dispersion
The pattern of spacing among individuals within geographic population boundaries.
Formal region
An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics, generally identified to help explain broad global or national patterns, generally illustrating a general concept rather than a precise mathematical distribution.
Functional region
Area organized around a node or focal point/place where there is a central focus that diminishes in importance outward. Used to display information about economic areas.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.
Globalization
The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The process of _______ transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and states.
Absolute direction
A compass direction such as north or south.
Mental map
Image of picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual’s perception, impression, and knowledge of that space.
Model
A system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate.
A physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities.
Natural landscape
Area organized around a node or focal point/place where there is a central focus that diminishes in importance outward. Used to display information about economic areas.
Nodal Region
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a sturdy area.
Patterns
Regions are areas that have similar characteristics
Perceptual Region
The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location.
Place
Places that lack a “sense of place”. These landscapes are those that have no special relationship to the places in which they are located—they could be anywhere.
Placelessness
A systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations on the surface of a sphere or an ellipsoid into locations on a plane.
projection
The third theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; an area on the Earth’s surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.
Region
A measure of distance that includes the costs of overcoming the friction of absolute distance separating two places. Often describes the amount of social, cultural, or economic, connectivity between two places.
Relative distance
Directions such as left, right, forward, backward, up, and down based on people’s perception of places
Relative direction
The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.
Relative location
The art and science of making measurements of the earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites. These sensors collect data in the form of images and provide specialized capabilities for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing those images.
Remote sensing scale
A physical character of a place, such as characteristics like climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
Site
The location of a place relative to other places; valuable to indicate location: finding an unfamiliar place and understanding its importance by comparing location with familiar one and learning their accessibility to other places.
Situation
Considered as land, and can have a relation to ownership usage
Space
Geography book, Mediterranean sea center, genealogies
Hecataeus
A Greek scholar who worked in the third century B.C.E, who accurately calculated the circumference of the Earth by using the sun’s angle on the summer solstice along two points of the Nile River, which was the Alexandria and Syene.
Eratosthenes
German geographer, a founder of modern human geography.
Carl Ritter
Alexander VonHumboldt
Prussian geographer, one of the founders of modern geography
Roman geographer-astronomer and author of Guide to Geography which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude
Ptolemy
A Moroccan explorer of Berber descent, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.[1][2] He is known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla
Ibn Baṭūṭah
An 11th century Arab geographer that worked for the king of Sicily to collect geographical information into a remarkably accurate representation of the world. Under his direction, an academy of geographers gathered maps and went out on their own scientific expeditions.
Idrisi
Herodotus
He wrote a number of volumes that described the human and physical geography of the various regions of the Persian Empire.
An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics, generally identified to help explain broad global or national patterns, generally illustrating a general concept rather than a precise mathematical distribution
Uniform region
Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.
Spatial Distribution
Functions as a unit because its component parts are interdependent. systems of geographic concern are those in which the functionally important variables are spatial: location, distance, direction, density, and other basic concepts (makes up regions)
Spatial system
Applying regions to our everyday language (“go downtown”). engaging in an informal place classification to pass along quite complex spatial, organizational, or content ideas
Regional concept
The process of dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected.
Spatial diffusion
The movement and flows involving human activity
Spatial Interaction
