Unit One Group 2 Vocab Flashcards
An inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, his classic work, “Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action,” provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions.
George Perkins Marsh
Greatest German philosopher of Enlightenment-separated science and morality into separate branches of knowledge-science could describe nature, it could not provide a guide for morality. Wrote Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
a large area with a particular kind of scenery, such as a desert landscape
landscape
The process of describing and interpreting the landscape ecology of an area.
Landscape Analysis
Distance north or south of the equator
Latitude
when the pattern in along straight lines, like rivers, streets, or railroad tracks.
linear pattern
The standard time in the region that a person lives in
local time
The position of anything on Earth’s surface.
location
Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees
Longitude
a projection of a map of the world onto a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, used especially for marine charts and certain climatological maps.
Mercator Projection
An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.
meridian
An example of economic globalization in which the business has centers of operation in many parts of the globe.
multi-national corporations
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
parallel
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
pattern
how people think about or percieve a region (ex. “the middle east”)
Perceptual Region (Vernacular)
