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Built environment
The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape in their understanding of land use.
Census Data
Commonly used for research of population, business marketing, and planning, providing a sampling frame such as an address register.
Contagious Diffusion
A type of expansion diffusion where all individuals and areas outward from the source region are affected.
Contour Map
Lines drawn to represent a consistent height above sea level.
Cultural ecology
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
Cultural Hearths
Areas where civilizations first began that radiated customs, innovations, and ideologies that culturally transformed the world.
Cultural Landscape
Modifications of the natural landscape by human activities.
Cultural Traits
A single attribute of a culture.
Distance decay
The concept where the further things are apart, the less connected they tend to be.
Distribution
The way a phenomenon is spread out or arranged over an area to describe patterns.
Environmental determinism
The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development while ignoring the influence of culture.
Environmental possibilism
A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays.
Formal (Uniform) Region
An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.
Functional (Nodal) Region
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Geographic Perspective
Where and how something occurs with the physical environment.
Geographic scale
Refers to the area of the world being studied.
Human environment interaction
The study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people.
Local Scale vs Global Scale
Local scale refers to a local area (village, town, city), while global scale relates to the entire world.
Material Culture
A type of culture consisting of concrete/physical human creations.
Mobility
All types of movement between locations.
Natural resources
Items that occur in the natural environment that people can use, such as air, water, oil, fish, soil, and minerals.
Nonrenewable resources
Limited resources that can be exhausted by human users.
Place
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.
Region
A group of places in the same area that share a characteristic.
Regionalization
The organization of the Earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas.
Renewable resources
Unlimited natural resources that theoretically will not be depleted based on use by people.
Sense of place
The perception of the characteristics of places based on personal beliefs.
Site
The physical characteristic of a place.
Situation
The location of a place relative to another place.
Spatial association
Matching patterns of distribution.
Sustainability
The overarching theme of human geography related to using resources now in ways that allow their future use while minimizing negative environmental impacts.
Time space compression
The shrinking time distance or relative distance between locations due to improved methods of transportation and communication.
Toponym
The name given to a place on Earth, often derived from founders, religious affiliation, physical features, or colonial origins.
Absolute Location (*w)
a place may be located by mathematically calculating its location using latitude and longitude
Aerial Photography (drive vocab list)
remotely sensed information captured from planes and from satellites that orbit the earth above the atmosphere.
Cartography
The science of map making.
Centralized Pattern (*w)
distribution pattern is if objects circle another object
Distortion
On a map or image, the misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth.
Fieldwork (*amsco)
data observed and recorded on location
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
Geospatial data
data that is specific to one location, can be quantitative or qualitative
Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers
Globalization
actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Greenwich Mean Time
the time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude
International Date Line
an arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas
Isoline map
map displaying lines that connect points of equal value such as a map showing elevation (topographic)
Land use
study of how land is utilized, modified and organized by people
Landscapes (*w)
the overall appearance of an area that is shaped by both human and natural influences
Linear Pattern (*w)
distribution pattern is along straight lines
Location
the position of anything on Earth's surface
Map Projection
A mathematical method that involves transferring the earth's sphere onto a flat surface. This often causes the map to become distorted to some aspect of reality.
Map Scale
The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
Mercator Projection
A true conformal cylindrical map projection, it is particularly useful for navigation because it maintains accurate direction.
Population pyramid
a bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex
Qualitative Geographic Data (*amsco)
collected as interviews, document archives, descriptions, and visual observations
Quantitative Geographic Data (*amsco)
information that can be measured and recorded using numbers
Random Pattern (*w)
no regular distribution can be seen
Rectilinear Pattern (*w)
a rectangular system of land survey adopted in much of the country under the Ordinance of 1785
Reference map
a map that emphasizes the location of places such as political, physical, road and plot maps.
Relative Location (*w)
defines a place in terms of how central or isolated it is in relation to other places
Remote sensing
the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods like aircrafts/planes
Robinson Projection
A map projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does attempt to minimize the errors of area, shape, distance or direction that are commonly found on all maps.
Satellite Imagery (Google)
images of the Earth collected by satellite
Scale
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. It is a ratio between the size of something in the real world to the size of that something on a map.
Space
the physical gap or interval between two objects
Spatial data
information that can be tied to specific locations.
Spatial Organization (*w)
the location of places, people, and events and the connections among places and landscapes
Stimulus
a graph, chart, map or photograph image which are often analyzed on a multiple choice question or free response question.
Thematic map
map that displays not only locations but also a topic or theme of information with the location.
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