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| the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group |
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a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests. |
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| the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded |
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| Location (Absolute vs. Relative) |
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| Relative location means to locate a place relative to other landmarks while absolute location is locating a place using a coordinate system. |
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| Distance (Absolute vs. Relative) |
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| Absolute distance is expressed in physical units such as kilometers and is unchangeable. Relative distance includes any other kind of distance such as time-distance, which is measured in hours and minutes |
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| Locates places on the map |
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| Basis for map information |
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| wrap around the globe touching one parallel such as the equator. |
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distorts scale and distance but area is proportional. |
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| have a flat plane touching one point only. |
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| relationship between distance on the map and distance on the ground. |
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| feature that stands out in a place. |
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means by which data are presented to improve and simplify understandings of outcomes, relationships, patterns, processes, and features. |
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| general maps, help us navigate by showing the locations of features in areas, regions, places, and buildings. |
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| representation of the whole or a part of an area. |
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| represent specific kinds of information. Examples of common thematic maps include population maps, weather maps, habitat maps, political maps, and land use maps. |
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| map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of elevation. |
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| information about places on the Earth's surface, knowledge about where something, knowledge about what is at a given location |
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| GIS- Geographic Information System |
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| a system for input, storage, manipulation, and output of geographic information |
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| GIS- Geographic Information Science |
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| is the science behind the technology |
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| GIS- Geographic Information Studies |
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| study of the societal context of geographic information |
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