Unit 1

Spatial patterns

Describe where things are located on the earth

Absolute location

Mathematical location through latitude and longitude

Cultural landscape

Human changes to the physical environment

Sense of place

Feelings or emotions attached to a place

Toponym

Place name (can be named after a person,geography or religion)

Site

Physical features

Situation

Relative location places interact with other place in its proximity which influences it

Large scale map

Zooms in more detail

Small scale

Zooms out less detail

Remote sensing

Getting data about the earth from a satellite

Distance decay

The further apart two things are the less connected they will be

Time-space compression

Technology has reduced the time it takes to get from one place to another

Environmental Determinism

Environment determines culture

Possiblism

Humans determine culture

Formal region

Share uniform trait like language,crop,religion,or political boundary

Functional region

Centered around a node or focal point

Vernacular/Perceptual region

Place people believe to exist