Chapter 1 Flashcards
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area
Cartography
The science of map making.
Contagious diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Cultural ecology
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-enviroment relationships.
Cultural landscape
The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
Culture
The body of customary beliefs, social forms and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition.
Density
The frequency with which someone exists within a given unit of area.
Diffusion
The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another overtime
Distance decay
The diminishing and the importance and the eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Distribution
The arrangement of something across earths surface
Environmental determinism
A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws stop by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was there for the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
Expansion diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.
Formal region(or uniform or homogenous
In area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.
Functional region(or nodal region)
In the area organized around a notice of focal point.
GIScience (geographic information science)
The development and analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies.
GIS(geographic information system)
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.
GPS(global positioning system)
A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
Greenwhich mean time
The time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude
Hearth
The region in which innovative ideas originate
Hieracheal diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
International date line
180° longitude: although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas, when you cross the international dateline (heading east) the clock moves back 24 hours or one entire day.
Lattitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator 0°.
Location
The position of anything on Earth’s surface.
