AP Hug Unit 1 vocab

absolute direction

absolute direction

The cardinal direction (North, South, East, and West)

absolute distance

A distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length.

Census data

The primary data used by planner to understand the social, eco., and demographic conditions

Clustering

An objects in an area close together

Dispersal

The spacing of people within geographic population boundaries

Distance decay

A principle stating that the further away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have

Environmental determinism

The idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controlled, or determined by the physical environmental

field observations

Process of observing and collecting data about people, cultures, and natural environment

formal region

An area that has one or more shared traits

Functional region

An area organized by its function around a focal point

Geographic information system (GIS)

Way of collecting, recording storing, retrieving, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying geographic data through maps

Global

Relating to the whole world

landscape analysis

Outline the strengths, resources, and needs of a particular community

Land use

Humans use land for their bedding

Local

A place of particular area or neighborhood

Map projection

A method of your media impact of your communication activities vs. the investments involved

National

Related to a nation

natural resources

Something found within the natural environment that is accessible and economically valuable to humans including food, water, soil, plants, animals, and minerals.

perceptual/ vernacular region

place

A specific point on earth with human and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other places

policy documents

Policies are the business rules and guidelines of a company that ensure consistency and compliance with the company's strategic direction. The Policies lay out the business rules under which a company, division, or department will operate

Possibilism

The natural environment places constraints on human activity, but humans can adapt to some environmental limits while modifying others using technology

reference map

Maps that show where something is in space

region

Any area differentiated from surrounding areas by at least one characteristic

relative direction

Relationship to an objects current location and orientation.

relative distance

A type of measurement used in geography to describe the social, cultural, economic, and political relationships between two or more communities

relative location

The relationship of a place to other places

remote sensing

The process of talking pictures of the Earth’s surface from satellites to provide a greater understanding of the Earth’s geography over large distances

satellite imagery

Images of the Earth taken from artificial satellites orbiting the planet

Satellite navigation sytems

Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features

space

Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects

sustainability

The use of the earth’s renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that ensure resource availability in the future

thematic map

They are maps that tell a story about a place

time-space compression

The way that the world is seemingly getting smaller, or compressing, as a result of increased transport, communications, and capitalist processes