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