Human Geography Ch 1

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Places

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Specific geographic settings with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes.

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Region

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Territories that encompass many places, all of which share attributes different from the attributes of places elsewhere.

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Identity

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Sense that you make of yourself through your subjective feelings based on your everyday experiences and social relations.

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Physical Geography

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Earth's natural processes and their outcomes.

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Human Geography

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Spatial organization of human activities and with people's relationships to their environments.

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Regional Geography

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The way that unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes.

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Remote Sensing

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Collection of information about posts of Earth's surface by means of aerial photography or satellite imagery designed to record days on visible, infrared, and microwave sensor systems.

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Map Scale

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Ratio between linear distance on a map and linear distance on Earth's surface.

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Thematic Maps

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Maps designed to represent the special dimensions of particular conditions, processes, or events.

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Isoline

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A line on a map that connects places of equal data value, such as precipitation.

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Isopleth Maps

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Maps based on isolines.

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Map Projection

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Systematic rendering on a flat surface of the geographic coordinates of features found on Earth's surface.

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Geographic Information System

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Technology that can create detailed maps based on millions of pieces of information.

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Geodemographic Research

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Uses census data and commercial data about the populations of small districts in creating profiles of those populations for market research.

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Spatial Analysis

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Location, distance, space, accessibility, and spatial interaction.

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Site

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Physical attributes of a location: terrain, soil, vegetation, and water sources.

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Situation

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Location of a place relative to other places and human activities.

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Cognitive Images

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Psychological representations of locations that spring from people's individual ideas and impressions of these locations.

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Cognitive Distance

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The distance that people perceive as existing in a given situation.

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Friction of Distance

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Reflection of the time and cost of overcoming distance.

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Distance-Delay Function

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Rate at which a particular activity or phenomenon diminishes with increasing distance.

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Utility

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A place's usefulness to a particular person or group.

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Absolute Space

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Mathematical space described through points, lines, areas, planes, and configurations.

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Topological Space

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Measured by the nature and degree of connectivity between locations.

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Socioeconomic Space

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Described in terms of sites and situations, routes, regions, and distribution patterns.

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Cultural Space

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Space of people with common ties, described through the places, territories, and settings whose attributes carry special meaning for particular groups.

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Cognitive Space

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Measured in terms of people's values, feelings, beliefs, and perceptions about locations, districts, and regions.

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Accessibility

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The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location in relation to other locations.

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Spatial Interaction

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All kinds of movement and flows involving human activity.

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Economies of Scale

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Places, regions, and countries can derive economic a advantages from the efficiencies created through specialization, which allows for larger-scale operations.

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Time-Space Convergence

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The rate at which places move closer together in travel or communication time or costs.

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Spatial Diffusion

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The way that things spread through space and over time.

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Regionalization

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Classification of individual places or areal units.

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Functional Regions

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Regions that share an overall coherence in structure and economic, political, and social organization.

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Regionalism

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Situation in which different religious or ethnic groups with distinctive identities coexist within the same state boundaries.

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Sectionalism

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Extreme regionalism

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Irredentism

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Assertion by the government of a country that a minority living outside it's formal borders belongs to it historically and culturally.

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Ordinary Landscapes

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Everyday landscapes that people create on the course of their lives together.

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Symbolic Landscapes

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Represent particular values or aspirations.

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Sense of Place

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Refers to the feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories they associate with a place.

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Lifeworld

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The pattern and context for everyday living through which people conduct their lives.

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Intersubjectivity

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Shared meanings that are derived from everyday practice.

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Geographical Imagination

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Allows us to understand changing patterns, processes, and relationships among people, places, and regions.