Vocab Flashcards
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
Agricultural Density
An area distinguished by a unique combinations of trends or features
Absolute Location
The total number of people divided. By the total land area
Arithmetic density
Helped to find latitude (tool)
Astrolabe
An east-west Line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying the numbering of townships in the Unites States
Base Lines
1960s, focused on physiological processes that go with geographic decisions
Behavioral Geography
A settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement
Clustered
The spread of something over a given area
Concentration
Relations among people and objects across the barrier of space
Connections
The rap did widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Contagious diffusion
Geographic approach that emphasized human environment relationships
Cultural landscape
The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
Density
The spreading is a feature or trend from one place to another over time
Diffusion
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance decay
The arrangement of something across earth’a surface
Distribution
A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argues that the general laws daughter by human geographers could be found in the physician sciences geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities
Environmental diffusion
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Formal region (or uniform or homogeneous region)
An area organized around a node or focal point
Functional region (or nodal region)
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
Geographic information system
A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking symbols, and receivers
Global Positioning System
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide In scope
Globalization
The region from which innovate ideas originate
Hearth
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or nose of authority or power to other persons or places
Hierarchical diffusion
The branch if geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth’a surface
Human geography
Uses proportionally to show particular variable
Cartogram
A law that divides much if the United States into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers
Land Ordinance of 1785
The numbering state used To indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0 deg)
Latitude
One of the two factors that are pulling people in opposite directions. One way people are searching for more ways to express their unique cultural traditions and economic practices
Local diversity
The position of anything of earth’s surface
Location
The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians frown on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0 deg)
Longitude
A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of earth’s surface or a portion of it
Map
A representation of a portion of earth’s surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located
Mental map
An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles
Meridian
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
(Or vernacular) Boundaries determines by people’s beliefs, not a scientifically measurable process
Perceptual region
The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes
Physical geography
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
Physiological density
A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character
Place
Idea of humans develop their own culture, but within the limits of the environment
Positivism
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
Possibilism
The meridian, designated as 0 deg. Longitude, that passes through the royal observatory at Greenwich, England
Prime meridian
A north/south line designated in the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the survey and numbering of township ok the United States
Principal meridians
The system used to transfer locations from earth’a surface to a flat map
Projection
The system used to transfer locations from earth’a surface to a flat map
Region
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area
Regional studies
A location as compared to other places
Relative location
The acquisition of data about earth’a surface from a satellite robing the planet or other long-distance methods
Remote sensing
A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use
Resources
The relationship between he portion of earth being studies and earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on earth’a sirfac
Scale
A square normally 1 mi on a side. The land ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections
Sections
The physical character of a place
Site
The location of a place relative to other places
Situation
The physical gap or interval between two objects
Space
The reduction nj time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result do imported communication and transportation systems
Space time compression
Where something occurs in the spatial perspective
Spatial perspective
The spread of an underlying principle, even through a specific characteristic rejected
Stimulus diffusion
The idea that humans don’t have much control in the world and that the world is product of unobservable structure
Structuralism
It depicts a round world with three continents separated and surrounded by water. Jerusalem is in the center. To orient
TO map
Love of place
Topohilia
The name given to a portion is earth’s surface
Toponym
Fear of place
Topophobia
A square normally 6 mi on a side. The land ordinance of 1785 divided much of the US into a series of townships
Township
The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
Uneven development
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity (perceptual)
Vernacular region
1st prof. Of geography at Berlin university. Advocated searching for interconnections among things. Pushed geography toward scientific exploration and the earth as a home
Carl Ritter
Focused on the impacted of human cultures and physical processes on a landscape over time
Carl Saur
Known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic growth and economic geography
Ellsworth Huntington
American scientist and author. Best known- supports the idea that culture emerges from the environment
Jared Diamond
Wrote a complex geographic of world versions of his maps used for the next 15,000 years
Ptolemy
The study in map making
Cartography
