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Bulit Environment
The human-made space in which people live, work, and engage in leisure activities on a daily basis
Climate
The average pattern of weather over a 30-year period for a particular region
Culture Ecology
The study of the interactions between societies and their local environments
Culture Landscape
The built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting Earth — farm fields, cities, houses, and so on and the meaning, values, representations, and experiences associated with those forms
Culture
The shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors that a society transmits from one generation to the next
Environmental Determinism
The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is a passive product of its physical surroundings
Field Observations
the act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording, firsthand, information there
Flow (diffusion)
Patterns and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena
Formal Region
A geographical area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common
Functional Regions (nodal regions)
A geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically as one unit
human-enviroment interaction
The effect that humans have on their environment and the effect that the environment has on humans
location
The position of anything on Earth's surface
Map Scale
The distance on a map in relation to distance in actual space; for example, 1 inch on a map might indicate a distance of 100 mile
Mental Map
A personal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface
Perceptual Regions (vernacular regions)
A geographic area that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants, based on the widespread acceptance and use of a unique regional name
Physical Geography
The study of Earth’s physical characteristics and processes: how they work, how they affect humans, and how humans affect them
Place
A specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic
Possibilism
The belief that any physical environment offers a number of possible ways for a society to develop and that humans can find ways to overcome environmental challenges
Prime Meridian
The zero-degree longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England; also known as the Greenwich Meridian
Qualitative data
descriptive rather than numerical or statistical in nature. ————- geography involves methods such as ethnography, interviews, and participant observation to gather data and make sense of the complexity and diversity of human geography
Quantitative Data
data that can be counted or measured in numerical values
Region
A geographical unit based on one or more common characteristics or functions
Regionalization
the process of dividing up the earth into smaller regions or units or the tendency to form decentralized regions
Sense of Place
How a person feels about a particular place and why it is important to them
Site
The physical character of a place
Situation
The location of a place relative to another place
Space
The areas we occupy as humans; it has no value until the people who occupy it make it their own
Spatial Association
The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature
Subregions
a part of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location
Sustainability
The group of practices that meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their needs
Time-Space Compression
The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarized by the phrase “the world is shrinking”
Toponyms
The name given to a portion of Earth's surface
Transnational Corporations
A firm with the power to coordinate and control operations in more than one country, even if it does not own those operations
Vernacular Region (perceptual)
An area that people believe exists; is part of their cultural identity
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