U1: AP HUG - Geography: Its Nature and Perspective (GNP)

Location

A specific point or area on the Earth's surface.

Place

A particular position or point in space that has unique characteristics.

Human-environmental interaction

The ways in which humans and the environment affect each other.

Movement

The mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the Earth's surface.

Region

An area defined by certain unifying characteristics.

Spatial analysis

The technique applied to understand the arrangement of phenomena across the Earth's surface.

Globalization

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Regionalization

The process of dividing an area into smaller segments or regions for analysis.

Scale

The relationship between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground.

Technology in geography

The use of tools and techniques that have transformed the study and practice of geography.

absolute distance

absolute location

accessibility

activity spaces

Aggregation

agricultural density

anthrogenic

arithmetic density

Azimuthal projection (Polar or Planar Projection)

cardinal and intermediate directions

Carl Sauer

cartogram

cartography

centralized pattern

Choropleth thematic map

Complementary

Concentration

Conformal (Orthomorphic) Projection

conic map

connectivity

contagious diffusion

coordinate system (global grid)

Cotton Belt

cultural diffusion

cultural ecology

cultural landscape

culture (trait and complex)

cylindrical map

Daylight Savings Time

Density

diffusion

distance decay (time-distance decay)

distortion

distribution

Dot Density Map

environmental determinism

epidemic and pandemic diseases

equal-area projection

equator

equidistant projection

Eratosthenes

expansion diffusion

flow-line map

formal region (uniform region)

friction of distance

Fuller Projection

functional region (nodal region)

Geographic scale

GIS (Geographic Information System)

Goode's Homosline Projection

GPS (Global Positioning System)

great circles

Greenwich Mean Time

hearth

hierarchical diffusion

human geography

Idiographic information

independent invention

International Date Line

Isoline Thematic Map

landscape

latitude (parallels)

linear pattern

longitude (meridians)

map

George Perkins Marsh

mental map (cognitive map)

Mercator Projection

model

Molleweide Projection

natural landscape (physical landscape)

network

node

Nomothetic information

oval map

pattern

perceptual region (vernacular region)

Peters Projection (Gall-Peters)

physical geography

physiological density

possibilism

Prime Meridian

principal meridian

projection

Proportional-Symbol Thematic Map

Ptolemy

Qualitative data

Quantitative data

random pattern

Reference Map