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Anthropogenic
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Human-induced environmental change; conservation planning; and sustainability.
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Characterizes much of the field of this day.
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Cartography
Cultural Landscape |
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The art and science of map-making.
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Products of complex interactions between humans and their environments. |
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George Perkins Marsh
Natural Landscape |
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Inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar who provided first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions.
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Landscapes unaltered by human activities.
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Refers to concepts that are universally applicable.
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Refers to facts or features that are unique to a particular place or region, such as history or ethnic composition. |
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| University of Chicago geographer that claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions: the earth-science tradition, the culture environment tradition, the locational tradition, and area analysis tradition. |
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Physical Geography
Qualitative Data |
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Spatial characteristics of the earth's physical and biological systems.
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Often associated with cultural and regional geography because they tend to be more unique to and descitptive of particular places and processes.
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Quantitative Data
Quantative Revolution |
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Use rigorous mathematical techniques and are particualarly important in economic, political, and population geogaphy, where hard, numerical data bounds.
Stressed the use of empirical measurements, the use of hypothesis testing, the development of mathematical problems, and the use of computer programs to emplain geographic patterns.
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Earth System Science
Environmental Geo. |
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A way to study the interactions between physical systems on a global scale.
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Where physical and human geography meet. |
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Eratosthenes
Fertile Crescent |
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Served as the head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C, early cartographer.
(Credited for coming up with the term "Geography.")
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One of the first areas of sedentary agriculture and urban society. |
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Ptolemy
Global Positioning System (GPS)
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Published his "Guide to Geography", which included rough maps of the landmasses, as he understood them at the time, and a global grid system.
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An integrated network of satellites that orbit the Earth, broadcasting information to hand-held recievers on the earth's surface.
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Goeographical Information Systems (GIS) |
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| A family of software programs that allow geographers to map, analyze, and model spatial data. |
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Thematic Layers
Systematic Geography |
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Consist of an individual map that contains specific features: roads, stream networks, or elevation contours
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Researchers study the earth's ingetrated systems as a whole instead of focusing on a particular process in a single place
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Sustainability
Spatial Perspective
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Many things to many people and accordingly is mentioned at several different points in this book
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An intellectual framework that allows geographers to look at the earth in terms of the relationships between various places
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Regional Geography
Vernacular regions |
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The study of regions
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Perceptual regions/ existing in minds |
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People's attachment to the region that they percieve as their home
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Area larger than a single city that contains unifyiung social or physical characteristics |
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