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Question 1

The scanning of Earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it

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Remote Sensing

Question 2

The placements or arrangement of objects on Earth’s surface; also includes the space between those objects

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Spatial Patterns

Question 3

A map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics or attributes, and sometimes the relationships between them

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Thematic Map

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How a person feels about a particular place and why it’s important to him or her

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Sense of Place

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The areas we occupy as humans; it has no value until the people who occupy it make it their own

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Space

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Geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a specific country

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National Scale Analysis

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a process of organizing the use of land to meet the occupant’s needs while respecting the capabilities of the land

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Land Use

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A region where cultural markers overlap and blend into a recognizable culture

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Border Zones

Question 9

A geographical unit based on one or more common characteristics or functions

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Reigon

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Where a person goes and what he or she does on a day-to-day basis

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Activity space

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A geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically as one unit

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Functional REigon

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Geographical scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a particular region

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REigonal Scale anayliss

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The distance on a map in relation to distance in actual space; for example, 1 inch on a map might indicate a distance of 100 miles

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Map Scale

Question 14

A geographic perspective that seeks to identify and explain the uses of space

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Spatial perspective

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The mental images that comprise humans’ perception of nature; environmental perception may be accurate or inaccurate

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Environmental Perception

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A map that shows geographic locations on Earth’s surface, such as the locations of cities or oceans

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Reference map

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The number of individual items in a particular area

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Density

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A map projection that looks down at Earth from the perspective of one of the poles (North or South)

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Polar projection

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The physical and human forces that work together to form and transform the world

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Geographic Processess

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The territorial extent of an idea or object

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Scale

Question 21

Geographic Scale that looks at geographic phenomena across the entire world

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Global scale

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How we modify space based on who we are as a group of people

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Place

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The level of analysis that explores relationships between phenomena and humans with the most detail. It is also the most malleable of scales.

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Local scale

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A graphic representation of the three-dimensional configuration of Earth’s surface

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Topographic map

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A number of similar things grouped together

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Cluster

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A measurement of the level of social, cultural, or economic similarity between places despite their absolute distance from each other

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RElative scale

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The zero-degree longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England; also known as the Greenwich Meridian

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Prime meridian

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Consisting of, derived from, or relating to data that is directly linked to specific geographical locations.

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Geospatial

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The process of examining patterns and processes within and between regions at multiple geographic scales (Local, National, regional, and Global)

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Reigonal analaysis

Question 30

The distance that can be measured with a standard unit length, such as a mile or kilometer.

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Absolute distance

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Graphic elements that help organize the information in a map, such as (but not limited to) dots, stars, arrows, squares, and dotted lines

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Map symbols

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Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space

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Spatial

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A thematic map that shows data aggregated for a specific geographic area, often using different colors to represent different values

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Choropleth Map

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The distribution of individual items in a geographic area

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Dispersal

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The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is a passive product of its physical surroundings

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Environmental Determinism

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A map that uses dots to represent objects or counts; the dot can represent one object (a one-to-one dot density map) or it can represent a number of objects (a one-to-many dot density map)

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Dot Density/Distribution Map

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The inhibiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of most forms of human interaction; time space compression diminishes friction of distance

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Friction of distance

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The process of collecting and organizing large amounts of information

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Data Aggregation

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Subjective information that is opinion-based, usually descriptive, and often expressed as text.

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Qualitative

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A direction that can be described as position, such as in front of or behind, to the left or to the right

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Relative Direction

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A map projection that avoids shape distortion and the restrictions of a rectangular map by creating "interruptions" in the map's continuity; in each section, map projection regions are shown "equally" like an orange peel being laid out in a flat surface

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Goode Homolosine Projection

Question 42

a map projection that shows all landmassess with their true areas but distorts their shapes

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Peters projection

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The built forms that cultural groups create inhabiting Earth - farm fields, cities, houses, and so on - and the meaning, values, representations and experiences associated with those forms

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Cultural landscape

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a personal representation of a portion of Earth's Surface

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Mental map

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Geographic perspective that acknowledges the two-way relationship between local communities and global patterns, emphasizing that the forces of globalization need to take into account local-scale cultural, economic, and environmental conditions

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GLobal perspective

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The awareness of belonging to a group of people within a region

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Reigonal identity

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A geographic area that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants, based on the widespread acceptance and use of a unique regional name

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Perceptual/Vernacular Region

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A territorially bounded system consisting of the interaction between humans and the environment

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Eco system

Question 48

Geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a state or province, a city or town or neighborhood

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Local scale anaylsis

Question 49

A system of 24 satellites that orbit Earth twice daily and transmit radio signals Earthward; the basis for many map based-apps that provide directions on how to get from one place to another

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GPS

Question 50

The study of the interactions between societies and their local environments

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Cultural ecology

Question 51

A map that distorts the geographic shape of an area in order to show the size of a specific variable the larger the area on a cartogram, the larger the value of the underlying variable

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Cartogram

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A map that uses symbols (such as circles or dots) of differents sizes to represent numerical values

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Proportional or Graduated Circle Map

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The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarized by the phrase "the world is shrinking"

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Time-space Compression

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An area composed of a heavily populated urban core and its less populated surrounding areas

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Metropolitan Area

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The ratio of a distance on Earth compared to the same distance on a map.

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Cartographic scale

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Distance above sea level

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Elevation

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On a map, a line that connects or links different places that share a common or equal value such as elevation

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Isoline

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Central Points where the functions of a functional region are coordinated and directed

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Nodes

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The ties established between regions and countries that over time collectively create a global economic system that is not necessarily based on equality.

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Interdependence

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Corresponds to the direction on a compass; north, south, east, west, and combinations such as northeast and southwest

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Absolute direction