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Physical Geography

One of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and the location of Earth’s natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography.

Place

Uniqueness of a location

Possibilism

Geographic view or point- a response to determination that holds the human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development.

Reference maps

Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude.

Region

An area on the Earth’s surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.

Relative location

The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.

Relocation diffusion

Sequential diffusion process In which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the evacuate the old areas and relocate to the new ones.

Remote sensing

A method of collecting data information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the object of study.

Rescale

Involvement of player sat other scales to generate support for a position of initiative.

Sense of place

State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.

Spatial

Pertaining to, involving, of having the nature of space on the earth’s surface.

Spatial distribution

Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.

Spatial Interaction

Intervening opportunity to present of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites further away

Stimulus diffusion

Form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the intro of a cultural trait from another place

Thematic Maps

Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of show attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon

Time-distance decay

The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its points point of origin or source

Photographic interpretation

“The act of examining photographic images for the purpose of identifying objects and judging their significance” (Colwell, 1997)

Policy Documents

Specifies the rules, guidelines and regulations that your organization requires employees to follow.

Space

Implies the extent of an area and can be in a relative and absolute sense

Time-space Convergence

Refers to the decline in travel time between geographical locations as a result of transportation, communication, and related technological an social innovations

Travel narratives

Often records of the places, people, and occurrences of a particular region that a traveller visits