Chapter 1 Introduction: Some Background Basics

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Remote sensing
________ is when a satellite or high- altitude aircraft scans the Earth to obtain data about it.
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Natural landscapes
________ provide the setting within which human actions occur, they help shape how humans live.
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Cartography
________ is the art and science of map- making.
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Earth
________ can be described by reference to its degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
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Origin of geography
The study of geography began in ancient Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, the Arab world, Greece and Rome.
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Texas
Spatial Association: When certain features spatially correspond with each other.Counties in ________ where alcohol is legal, have a majority of Catholic residents, while so- called dry counties are more likely to have a majority of Protestant residents.
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prime meridian
The vertical lines encode the longitude using E or W, the ________ in England is 0°.
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observable spatial patterns
Geography: the study of how ________ evolved through time.
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cultural characteristics
The relative locations tell us that people, things and places exist in a world of physical and ________ that differ from place to place.
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Spatial Association
________: When certain features spatially correspond with each other.
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Geography
________: the study of how observable spatial patterns evolved through time.
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physical environment
It includes all topics of geography that are not connected with the ________ such as cartography.
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Humans
________ also modify environmental conditions because of the harmful agents they leave and emit due to their actions.
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Cartograms
________ use size to show the larger magnitude.
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relative locations
The ________ tell us that people, things and places exist in a world of physical and cultural characteristics that differ from place to place.
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Dispersion
________: how a feature is spread out within a defined area.
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Perceptual regions
________ are defined by the beliefs of people.
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Globalization
________: It is the increasing interconnection of humans and societies in all parts of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental processes become international in scale and effect.
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Patterns
________ are seen all over the world, the distribution of towns along a railroad or houses along a street may be seen as linear.
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Patterns
________ are seen all over the world, the distribution of towns along a railroad or houses along a street may be seen as linear.
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regional concept
All humans are familiar with regions to describe places and areas and this is called the ________.
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cultural environment
The forces and events that shape the physical and ________ are an important focus of geography.
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cultural environment
The forces and events that shape the physical and ________ are an important focus of geography.
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Environmental circumstances
________ affect agriculture which connects with employment, trade, population and diets.
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Greek geographers
The ________ measured the Earth and drew the latitudes and longitudes of the planet.
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Perceptual regions
________ are defined by the beliefs of people.They also have vague boundaries and differ from person to person.Ex.
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Relative distance
________ transforms the linear measurements into more meaningful data for a relationship.
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Universal Transverse Mercator System
Street addresses precisely define accurately locate a building in an individual town but The ________ (UTM) uses a set of 60 longitude zones and is used in Geographic information systems (GIS)
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Universal Transverse Mercator System
Street addresses precisely define accurately locate a building in an individual town but The ________ (UTM) uses a set of 60 longitude zones and is used in Geographic information systems (GIS)
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Human geography
________ makes us better- informed citizens as it makes us aware of the realities of our society such as the economic, social and political systems around the world as the globe becomes more connected.
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Density
________: the measure of the number or quantity of a specific feature within a defined unit of area.
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horizontal lines
The ________ encode the latitude using N or S, the equator is at 0°.
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circle maps
Graduated ________ use circles of different sizes to show the magnitude of a variable.
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Spatial diffusion
________: It is the process of dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected.
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Statistical maps
________ show the actual number of data and are quite similar to a(n) ________.
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Absolute direction
________ is based on global or macroscopic features like north, south, east and west.