unit one AP HUG

Absolute direction

Specific and exact direction

Census data

Social, cultural, economic, and political info about population

Distance decay

Friction of distance causes the decay, or weakening of the signal

Field observation

Physically visiting an area taking notes photos or sketching maps counting and measuring things

GPS/GIS

GIS stores, manages and analyses maps all types of location based data

GPS navigation system

Land use

Describes how humans utilize land

Map distortion

Misrepresentation of earth or state on a flat map

Media reports

Online reports of big important events or things

Online visualization

Digital tools to display analyze and share spatial data

Personal interview

In person conversation gathering information on someone or something

Policy documents

Formal documents holding an organizations rules, standards, goals and more

Regional scale

Geographical analysis focusing on a specific region

Remote sensing

Gathers info from satellites or other air craft above the atmosphere

Sustainablility

Overarching theme trying to use resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environment

Absolute distance

Specific and exact distance from something

Clustering

People, buildings or activities grouped closely and tightly together in one area

Distance distortion

This misrepresentation of actual distances in images or maps

Flows

The pattern and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena

Geographical data

Info linked to specific locations on earth combining spatial and thematic components

Landscape analysis

A systematic process to understand the context, key players, transactions, gaps, and opportunities within a specific field, or community

National scale

Countries

Pattern

repetitive trend of something, someone or data

Photographic interpretation

The process of examining images to identify features

Possibilism

A developed theory in reaction to environmental determinism. It acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays

Relative direction

Describes location based on a persons viewpoint

Satellite imagery

An image or earth taken above the atmosphere taken by a satellite

Thematic maps

Spatial aspects of info or a phenomenon

Absolutely location

Specific or exact location of something or someone

Direction distortion

The misrepresentation of a direction on a map

Elevation

The height of a point on earths structure

Formal region

United by one or more traits such as political, physical, cultural, and or economic

Geospatial data

Info that can be tied to a specific place

Local scale

Neighborhoods or cities

Natural resources

Resources that come from the natural environment that people can use as a resource

Perceptual region

Defined by informal sense of place that people ascribe to them

Reference map

Designed for people to refer to for general information about places

Relative distance

Measured by minuets or hours

Shape distortion

Misrepresentation of an object or places real shape

Time-space convergence

An advancement in transportation and communication between long distance areas

Area distortion

Misrepresentation of the relative sizes of geographical features when projecting a curved surface on a flat map

Dispersal

A spread of people, buildings, or activity groups on a map

Environmental

A persons surroundings

Determinism

The idea that all events including human choices are determined by prior causes

Functional region

Defined by an activity

Global scale

Whole world scale

Online mapping

An online map (goole maps)

Region

An area that is a part of a country

Place

A building, state, street, etc.

Regional analysis

Study of a region

Relative location

Describes where a place is

Space

A continuous area or the dimension of height, depth and more