Chapter One

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Scale

Back 1

Relationship between the portion of earth being studied and the earth as a whole

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Space

Back 2

Physical gap or interval between 2 objects

Front 3

Connections

Back 3

Relationship among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Cartography

Back 4

Science of mapmaking

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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Law that divided much of the US into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlerd

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Township

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A square 6 miles on each side

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Principal Meridians

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North-South lines separating townships

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Base Lines

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East-West lines separating townships

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Sections

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A square one mile on each side (36 in a township)

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GIS

Back 10

Computer system that c an store, query, analyze and display geographic data

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Remote Sensing

Back 11

Getting data about Earth from a satellite

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GPS

Back 12

Determines location of an object

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Location

Back 13

Position something occupys

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Toponym

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Name given to a place

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Site

Back 15

Physical character of a place

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Situation

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Location of place relative to other places

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Meridian

Back 17

An arc drawn between north and south poles

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Parallel

Back 18

A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator

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Longitude

Back 19

Used to find location on earth

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Prime Meridian

Back 20

0 degrees longitude

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Latitude

Back 21

Used to determine location (east-west)

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Greenwich Mean Time

Back 22

Universal time or starting point

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International Data Line

Back 23

Move the clock 24 hours

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Cultural Landscape

Back 24

Shows the way of life of a people in an area

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Regional studies

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Contemporary cultural landscape approach

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Formal Region

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Area in which everyone living there shared one characteristic

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Functional Region

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Area organized around a focal point

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Vernacular Region

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Place that is defined by people and their identity

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Mental Map

Back 29

A persons representation of an area

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Culture

Back 30

A body of customary beliefs

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Cultural ecology

Back 31

Study of human-environment relationships

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Environmental Determinism

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Idea that physical environment causes social development

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Possibilism

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Physical environment may limit human factors

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Resources

Back 34

Substances useful to people

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Polder

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Piece of land that is created by draining water from an area

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Globalization

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Something that goes from being small to worldwide

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Transitional corporation

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A company that conducts business in many locations

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Density

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Frequency with which something occurs in space

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Arithmetic Density

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Total number of objects in an area

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Physiological density

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Number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture

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Agricultural density

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Number of farmers per unit area of farm land

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Concentration

Back 42

Extent of a feature’s spread over space

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Pattern

Back 43

A geometric arrangement of objects in space

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Space-time Compression

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The reduction of time it takes for something to reach another place

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Distance Decay

Back 45

The farther away things are the less they interact

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Diffusion

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Process by which a characteristic spreads across from one place to another over time

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Hearth

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Origin or source

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Relocation Diffusion

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Spread of an idea through physical movement of people

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Expansion Diffusion

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The spread of an idea to people

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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Spread of an idea through power to other people or places

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Contagious Diffusion

Back 51

Rapid widespread diffusion of idea through people

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Stimulus Diffusion

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Spread of an underlying principle

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Uneven Development

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Increasing gap between economic conditions of core countries and peripheral countries

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Projection

Back 54

Displaying earths surface on a flat map

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Distribution

Back 55

Arrangement of things in space

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Map

Back 56

Flat scale model of earths surface