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| # of farmers per unit of farmland |
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| total # of objects in an area ( used to compare distribution of population in different countries) number of people and land area |
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| Some East West lines that separate townships |
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| The science of mapmaking. cartography can be artwork |
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| The spread of something of a given area |
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| Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. Geographers are concerned with the various means by which connections occur |
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| The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
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| The geographic study of human to environment relationship |
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| Combination of cultural features such as language, religion, economic features such as agriculture & industry and feature such as climate & vegetation |
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| the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a people |
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| the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
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| the spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
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| the diminishing in importance & eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
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| the arrangement of something across earth's surface |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| 19th century approach to the study of geography, that argued the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical science- How physical environments caused human activities |
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| The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process |
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| An area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristic throughout i.e. soda/pop/coke |
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| An area organized around a node or a focal point |
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Geographic Information System
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| Computer system that captures, stores, queries, analyzes and displays geographic data. Stored in layers |
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Global Positioning System
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| System that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth. uses satellites to track position |
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| A force or process that involves the entire world & results in making something worldwide in scope, i.e. McDonalds |
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Greenwich Mean Time
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| Time at the Prime Meridian is the master reference time for all points on earth. The royal observatory is at GMT. (ZERO LONGITUDE) |
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| the region from which innovative ideas originate |
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| The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |
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follows 180 degree longitude.
(New Zealand is close to the IDL) |
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| 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 man alternatives |
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| the meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich England is 0 degrees longitude. (GMT) |
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| Some of the North-South lines separation townships |
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| the scientific method of transferring location on Earth's surface to a flat map |
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Area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics.
Formal-functional-venacular |
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Study of culture landscape approach.
Culture + Area = Cultural Landscape |
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| the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
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| Acquisition of data about Earths surface from a satellite orbiting earth or other long distance methods |
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| A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically & technologically feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use |
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Refers to the relationship of a features size on a map to its actual size on earth.
3- Ratio/Fraction, written scale, graphic scale.
1/20 1 inch=20 miles |
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a distinct group within a larger body of people or things.
a township is divided into 36 sections each of which is 1 mile by 1 mile |
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| Physical characteristics including climate, water, soil, vegetation and latitude. |
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| location of a place relative to its surrounding other places. |
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| The Physical gap or interval between two objects. |
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| the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications & transportation systems |
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| the spread of underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
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Name given to a place on earth.
i.e. Spring Hill |
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A public land surveying unit of 36 sections or 36 square miles.
A square 6miles on each side |
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| Transactional Corporation |
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| A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where it is headquarters or share holder are located. |
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| the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. |
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| Area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. |
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| the distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length such as a mile or kilometer |
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| A measure of distance that includes the cost of overcoming the friction of absolute direction |
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straight pattern
housed along the street |
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| clustered or concentrated at a certain place |
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| A pattern with no specific order or logic behind the arrangement |
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| divided much of the country into a system of townships & ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settlers in the west |
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the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel.
East to West |
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the location of each meridian is identified on earth's surface according to a numbering system
North to South |
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| Position that something occupies on Earth's surface |
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| 2 dimensional or flat-scale model of the earth's surface or portion of it. |
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Internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface.
Personal Impressions |
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| An Arc drawn between the poles North and South Poles |
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| circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator at right angles to the meridians |
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| # of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture |
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| Specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic |
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a piece of land created by draining water from an area.
Netherlands |
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| The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by humans |
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| When info from a globe is transferred to a flat surface distorted by shape, size, or direction |
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| a map that shows a pattern or some other information than what is shown on a topographical or reference map |
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| A special type of map in which the variation in quantity of a factor such as rainfall, population, crops in a geographic area is indicated, such as a dot map. |
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| a presentation of statistical data in geographical distribution on a map |
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| a type of map that uses dots to represent a phenomena |
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| A map showing the distributions of a phenomenon, usually in various colors; colors graduations correlated to the density per unit area of the phenomenon |
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| Maps that show lines that connect points of equal value |
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projection of a map of the world onto a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length of the equator
used esp for marine charts and climate maps |
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| is an equal area projection purposely centered on africa in an attempt to give all regions of earth equality |
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| A type of map that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses, but completely rearrange direction such that the 4 direction N, E, W, S no longer have meaning |
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| a projection that shows the entire world at once. A good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image |
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| A map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface |
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| a reference map that shows natural features such as mountains, rivers, in a different shade of brown, green and blue; and man made features (cities, borders) |
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| a map that displays individual preferences for certain places |
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