unit 1 Vocab

Global perspective

Geographic perspective that acknowledges the two way relationship between local communities and global patterns, emphasizing that the forces of globalization need to take into account local – scale, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions

Space

The areas we occupy as human humans it has no value until the people who occupy it, make it their own

Place

How we modify space based on who we are as a group of people

Non-renewable resource

Natural resources that are available on earth in finite quantities and will eventually be used up

Renewable resource

Natural resources that are available on earth and will naturally replenish overtime

Infrastructure

The basic facilities in installations that help a government or community run, including roads, schools, phone lines, sewage, treatment, plants, and power generation

environmental Perception

The mental images that compromise humans, perception of nature, environmental perception may be accurate or inaccurate

Sense of place

How a person feels about a specific place and why it is important to them

Friction of distance

A metaphor that explains that effort must be used to overcome distance

Data aggregation

The process of collecting and organizing large amounts of information

Census

An official count of individuals in a population, in the USA, it happens every 10 years

Cartographer

A person that works on or makes maps

spacial

Describing how things are organized in space

Concentration

How closely packed together objects are

Globalization

Worldwide integration and development which results in the expansion of international, cultural, economic, and political activities

Stimulus diffusion

When a feature or idea spreads, but is changed by those adopting the idea

Relocation diffusion

The physical spread of a feature or trade by people migrating

Hierarchical Diffusion

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons places

Reverse hierarchical diffusion

The spread of an idea from persons or places up to persons or nodes of authority

Expansion diffusion

A trend is spread from its or originating place outward

Diffusion

A feature or idea that is spread from its or originating place outward the three types are contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus

Contagious diffusion

When a cultural trend is transmitted from person to person from an original source to numerous others similar to virus or viral videos

Cultural landscape

The visible changes that humans make to the environment, including buildings, crops and signs

Density

The number of things divided by the measurement of area

Vernacular region (Or perceptual region)

In the area that shares a common qualitative characteristic, it’s only a region because people believe it’s a region

Region

A place larger than a point in smaller than a planet that is group together because of a measurable or perceived common feature

Functional region (or nodal region)

A region based around a node or focal point terrestrial radio broadcast are an example of this

Scale of analysis

How zoomed in or out you are when looking at geographic data

Scale

The relationship between the distance on the ground and the corresponding distance on a specific map, also a concept, describing how “zoomed in” you are while studying a geographic trait

Sustainability

The goal of the human race, reaching equilibrium within environment; meeting the needs of the present without while also leaving resources for future

Natural resource

A physical material Constituting part of earth that people need in value

Environmental possibilism

The belief that a physical environment plays a role in the development of a society, but is not the only factor at work

Time-space compression

The idea that the world feels smaller than it used to because of increased technology in transportation and communication

Relative location

Describing the position of a place as compared to, or relative to, Another landmark

distance decay

The idea that the interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases

Absolute location

Describing where something is using the exact site on an objective coordinate system

Remote sensing

The science of making measurements of the Earth, using sensors on airplanes or satellites

Quantitative data

Objective data that is fact based, usually Measurable and usually expressed in numbers

Qualitative data

Subjective information that is opinion based, is usually descriptive, and often expressed as text

GPS, global positioning system

A system that measures distance from a series of satellites to determine location on the planet

GIS, geographic information systems

Software that captures, manages, analyzes, and data that is collected geographically

Spatial interaction

The flow of goods, people or information among places in response to localized supply and demand

Spatial distribution

Arrangement of phenomenon across the Earth surface

Relative distance

Describing the distance between locations, using qualitative terms or nontraditional measurements of distance, one hour north of

Absolute distance

Describing how far distance is quantitive units of distance, miles kilometers etc.