Chapter 1 Basic Definitions Flashcards

Question

Ancient culture hearth...

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The place origin of things that are ancient.

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The place origin of things that occurred or was created recently.

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Adapting of a natural landscape by a cultural group. (This is how humans interact with nature.)

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The notion that success societies use their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cultural landscape.

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``` Cultural diffusion Relocation diffusion Migrant diffusion Expansion diffusion Hierarchal diffusion Contagious diffusion Stimulus diffusion ```

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The process of a spread of a feature or trend from one place to another place overtime.

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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

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The spread of an idea of their people, in which the phenomena weekends or dies out at its previous source… Moves like a "Slinky"

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The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.

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The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places (people may not have an option...resistance may be illegal)

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population (doesn't have to be a disease)

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The spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to defuse. (Example: apples first computer did not catch on but it's underlying principles were used to make great computers that caught on)

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Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage.

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A near equal exchange of culture traits or customs.

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Process of adopting certain customs that will be to their advantage.

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A 19th century to early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused him activities.

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The physical environment may limit some human action, but people have the ability to adjust their environment.

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The geographic study of multiple interactions of human environmental relationships.

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The current interglaciation period. (Sustained warming phase between glaciations during the ice age) some scientists believe we have recently entered the Anthropocene epoch because of humans new influence on earth.

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Beginning around 12,000 years ago, plant and animal domestication, which means human influence on that thing to make it more suitable for human control, began permanent settlements along fertile river valley is which moved humans from the egalitarian societies (equal), to more stratified societies, (unequal).

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Geographic information systems.

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Collection of computer hardware and software permitting spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, used, and displayed.

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Global positioning system

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Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places.

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Method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (satellites) that are physically distant from the area or object of study.

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Described in terms of its quality (that is, informal or relative characters such as culture, language, religion,...)

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Precisely describes data using numbers and measures (population, political, economic,…)

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Any three dimensional object (earth) will project some distortion onto any two dimensional object (map.)

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``` Azimuthal Mercator Peters Robinson Fuller ```

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Directions from a central point are preserved usually these projections also have radial symmetry.

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Straight meridians and parallels that intersect at right angles, used for marine navigation.

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Equal area cylindrical, areas of equal size on the globe are also equally sized on the map.

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Distorts shape, area, scale, and distance in attempt to balance errors of projection properties

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Using the surface of a polyhedron it is unfolded to a net in many different ways and flattened to form a two dimensional map which retains most of the globes proportional integrity

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``` Dot Stomatic Cloropleth Reference Proportional symbol Preference Cartogram ```

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One dot represents a certain number of phenomena (ex. One dot per 1000 people) represents things like population in an area ect.

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Made to reflect a particular theme about a geographic area. (Ex. Geographic, topographic, political map,…)

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A thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed (ex, population density)

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Generalized map type designed to show general spatial properties of features. (Ex. World's maps, roadmaps, Atlas Maps)

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Type of thematic map in which the area of symbols are varied in proportion to the value of an attribute (ex. City population)

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Map demonstrating progressively more desirable options.

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Map in which some thematic mapping variable is substituted for land area.