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Abiotic
Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter
Aculturation
The process of changes in culture that results from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct culture features
Assimilation
The process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant group.
Atmosphere
A thin layer of gases surrounding Earth
behavioral geography
the study of the psychological basis for individual human actions in space
Biosphere
Consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere.
Biotic
composed of living organisms
Cartography
The science of making maps
Citizen Science
scientific research by amateur scientists
Climate
The long-term average weather condition at a particular location
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area.
Connection
Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
Conservation
The sustainable management of a natural resource
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Cultural Ecology
Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
cultural landscape
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
Culture
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Density
The frequency with which something exists within a given area
Diffusion
The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
Distance Decay
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Distribution
The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.
Ecology
The scientific study of ecosystems
Ecosystem
A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
enviromental determinism
an 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography with argued with general law sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
Expansion Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
formal region (AKA uniform or homogenous)
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Functional Reigon(aka Nodal reigon)
An area organized around a node or focal point
Geographic Information Science (GIScience)
The development and analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies
Geographic Infromation System (GIS)
Geotagging
identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates
Global Positioning System (GPS)
A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
The time at the prime meridian (0°) and is the master reference
Hearth
The region from which innovative ideas originate
Hiearchical Diffusion
the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
Humanistic Geography
The study of different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings.
Hydrosphere
All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97% of which is in oceans
International Date Line
An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.
Latitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator.
Lithosphere
Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust
location
The position of anything on Earth's surface.
Longitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian
Map
A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
map scale
The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
Mashup
a map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by a mapping service
Mental Map
An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located.
Meridian
An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.
Network
A chain of communication that connects places
nonrenewable resource
Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans
parrallel
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
Participatory GIS (PGIS)
Community-based mapping, representing local knowledge and information.
Pattern
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
Place
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Polder
Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
Possibilism
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
Poststructuralist Geography
The study of space as the product of ideologies or value systems of ruling elites.
preservation
Maintenance of a resource in its present condition, with as little human impact as possible.
Prime Meridian
0 degrees longitude
Projection
The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.
Region
An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
remote sensing
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.
renewable resource
Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans
resource
A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
Scale
Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
Site
The physical character of a place
Situation
The location of a place relative to another place
Space
The physical gap or interval between two objects
space-time compression
The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems
Spatial Association
The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature.
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
Sustainability
The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.
Syncretism
the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature
Toponym
The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.
Transitional Corporation
A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.
uneven development
The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy.
vernacular region(aka preceptual reigon)
an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
Creation and dissemination of geographic data contributed voluntarily and for free by individuals
Regionalism
Refers to a group perceived identification w/ a particular reigon of any scale
Reigonalization
the organization of earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas
absolute location
Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates
relative location
The position of a place in relation to another place
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