APHuG Unit 1

Sense of place

emotions or feelings people associate with certain places, as broad as homes to places in the world.

Reference Map

A map you can look at that shows different themes.

Relative Location

Location of a place relative to other aspects surrounding it.

Toponyms

The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface

Satellite Navigation 

a system that uses satellites to find exact locations on Earth.

Situation

The location of a place relative to other places

Distance Decay

something fading away the farther it is from where it originated.

Mercator Projection

A map reflected onto a cylinder, results in equator and meridian being perpendicular.

cultural Landscape

A geographical region where human activities and environment create a unique place

Vernacular Architecture

A building style that reflects local needs, traditions, available materials, and cultural practices.

Absolute Location

the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as geographic coordinates or latitude and longitude.

Equal Area

A projection that focuses more on size, than other details.

Functional or Nodal Regions

An area organized around a node or focal point.

Perceptual/Vernacular Region

A vernacular region is a region that is perceived by society as existing in a certain location, but they do not really have a specific border

Dot distribution 

a data set as points and shows how clustered (close) or dispersed (far) over a given area. Each dot represents an individual observation in a given phenomenon.

Site

The physical characteristics of a place.

Remote Sensing

The acquisition of data about earth's surface from a satellite arbiter the planet or from other long distance methods

Choropleth Map 

a type of map that uses different shades or colors to show the value of a variable across different areas, like countries or states.

Scale

The relationship of a features size on a map to it actual size on earth

Administrative Region

A specific kind of formal region that operates under uniform membership function(Everyone in the district is equally apart of the district)

Graduated symbol map

displays symbols that change in size according to the value of the variable. 

Isoline map

a type of thematic map that uses lines to connect points of equal value across a geographic area. This could include elevation, temperature, crops, etc.

Topography

 the positioning of physical features of natural or artificial details placed on a map

Space -Time Compression

as technology increases and we can communicate and get places faster we feel like the world is smaller. We feel closer to places then we did in the past.

Conformal

A projection where the shapes and angles are accurate, but the sizes and lengths are wrong.

Uniform and Non-Uniform Membership Function

when an individual follows a/the characteristic(s) of the Formal Region while () is when an individual is part of a minority that doesn’t follow a/the characteristic(s) of the formal region.

Sequent occupance

the  geographic concept that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place over time.

Geographic Information System

captures, stores, queries, and displays geographic data

Scales Of Analysis 

the spatial extent from a local to global scale to which a phenomena are studied.