Unit 1 Ap test review

For Brmhs oswalt

absolute direction

cardinal directions: north, south, etc.

absolute distance

measurable distance. Ex. 76 miles from new Orleans to baton rouge

absolute location

longitude and latitude

census data

every ten years, used for decision making, tells demographic of the population, race, gender, and age

clustering

grouping of things together on the earth’s surface. Ex. people cluster by water

decision making

buisness, government, personal

dispersal

spread out there is a large absolute distance between items; such as dispersal of rural areas

distance decay

decreasing intensity with distance from the hearth, caused by friction of distance

elevation

height above sea level

field observations

Physically visiting location for analysis

flows

movement of people, things and information between places, flows move across space and encounter friction of distance or intervening obstacles

formal region

has definable boundaries; political boundaries, vegetation, topography

friction of distance

the time and cost to travel across space; technology can reduce this

functional region

around a service node; a city is a functional node and all the people who use the services of the city make up the functional node

geospatial technologies

helps geographer to gather information for decision making; Ex: remote sensing

geogrraphic inofrmation systems

software that layers geographic information; Ex. plotting a disease outbreak on a map and then plotting sources of water where diseases might have occured

global scale

the world scale

global positioning system

4 satiltites determine exact location

land use patterns

how humans use land and alter the natural landscape

local

large scale; cities, more likely to have cohort anomolies

map projection

a 2D representation of a 3D object something will always be distorted, size, distance, or shape

media reports

news, newspapers, TV news can be used to gather geospatial data

national scale

country scale; something diffuses across a country

natural resources

things from the environment humans use; soil, water, food, fossil fuels

pattern

how things are arranged on the earth’s surface, clustered or dispersed etc.

perceptual/ vernacular region

a region that is based on opinions about the characteristics of the region, doesn’t have definable boundaries

perosnal interviews

qualitative data about people’s opinions; how do you feel abt public transportation

photogrpahic interpretation

used for geographic analysis of a place; can analyze development or region of the world

place

location with meaning to people

possibilism

humans can overcome the environment and determine their own culture, but there are still limitations placed on humans by the environment

reference map

where things physically are

region

a location grouped by similar characteristics, can be physical, cultural, etc.

relative direction

based on where you are. Ex. take a left at the Canes

relative distance

distance that changes with tech; it is faster to drive in a car than walking

relative location

location relative to other places or transportation. closely realted to situation

remote sensing

pictures videos from satelites drones or planes

scale of analysis

the size of the area under analysis

site

physical features of a location; navigable waterways natural harbors coal deposits

situation

location relative to other places, how places interact with each other, some location site factors but a poor situation or vice versa

space

distance between place, parts of the earth’s surface that don’t have meaning to some

spatial

on the earth’s surface, distance between places or how things are arranged

spatial process

causes the arrangement of things on the earth’s surface SPICED and H processes

sustainability

resources for the future while protecting the natural environment

thematic map

tells a story, eg global map of TFR GDP HDI etc

time-space compression

the apparent shrinking of time and distance; things travel faster so the earth is smaller

travel narratives

using reports of someone else visiting a location eg youtube vloggers

visualization

3D mapping analysis, this is often used to map forest fires and flammable areas that could spread fires