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Unit 1: Introduction Flashcards

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How people make places, organize society, interact with each other in and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and our world.

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Human Geography

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A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and accelerating interdependence across national borders

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Globalization

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The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the earth’s natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography

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Physical geography

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Pertaining to space on the earth’s surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic

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Spatial

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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space

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Spatial distribution

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The design of spatial distribution (e.g. scattered or concentrated)

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Pattern

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Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space

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Spatial perspective

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Movement, region, human environment interaction, location, place

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Five themes

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The geographical situation of people and things

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Location

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A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which it’s producing areas are interrelated

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Location theory

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Reciprocal relationship between humans and the environment

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Human environment

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An area on the earths surface marked by a degree of formal functional or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon

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Region

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Uniqueness of a location

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Place

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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

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Sense of place

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Belief or understanding about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures

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Perception of place

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The mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of Earth

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Movement

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A condition that exists when two regions; through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products can specifically satisfy each other’s demands; the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away

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Spatial interactions

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Measurement of the physical space between two places

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Distance

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The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations; can be measured

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Accessibility

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The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in the transport network

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Connectivity

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The overall appearance of an area

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Landscape

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Divisible imprint of human activity and culture on a landscape. The layers of buildings forms and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants.

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Cultural landscape

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The art and science of making maps, including data compilation are you out and design; the interputation of map patterns.

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Cartography

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

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Reference maps

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Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon
Thematic maps
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Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
Global Positioning System (GPS)
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The position or place of a certain item on the surface of Earth as expressed in degrees minutes and seconds of latitude, 0° to 90° north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0° to 180° east or west of the prime meridian passing through Greenwich England
Absolute location
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A hunt for a cash which has its GPS coordinates position online by other geocachers
Geocaching
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The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. Distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect this word
Relative location
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Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
Mental map
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The space within which daily activity occurs
Activity space
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A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study
Remote sensing
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A collection of computer hardware and software that permit spatial data collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed to the user
Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or initiative
Re-scale
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A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; uniform region, homogenous region
Formal region
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A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it
Functional region
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The expansion and adoption of a cultural element from its place of origin to a larger area
Cultural diffusion
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A region that only exists as a conceptualization or idea and not as a physically demarcated entity
Perceptual region
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Declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation what time and distance from the source
Time distance decay
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The spread of an innovative idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows larger
Expansion diffusion
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The distance controlled spreading of something through population by contact
Contagious diffusion
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Diffusion in which something spreads through connected places or people
Hierarchical diffusion
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Diffusion were cultural adaptation occurs due to a cultural trait from somewhere else
Stimulus diffusion
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The diffusion of items through the relocation of people
Relocation diffusion
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Idea that the natural environment influences aspects of human life
Environmental determinism
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Geographic viewpoint that believes that human choices are the largest factor in cultural development
Possiblism
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What is building a greenhouse to grow crops an example of
Possiblism
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What is Linear distribution a type of
Pattern
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What is density
How compact an area is
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What is McDonald's selling different food in different places an example of
Stimulus diffusion
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What is the growing popularity of a restaurant in example of
Expensive diffusion
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What Is the growing popularity of a restaurant due to the fact that a popular or famous person goes there an example of
Hierarchical diffusion
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The distance a Pizza Hut will deliver to is an example of
It's functional region
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The South is a perceptual region for what reason
Different people think of it differently. Some people include Florida, and others don't
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What is the difference between a scattered pattern and a random pattern
Hey scattered pattern has order in a random pattern does not
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What is area a broader term for
Region
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What is a homogenous region
Formal region
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Uniform region
Formal region
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What type of region is a country
Formal region
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Is GPS an example of remote-sensing
Yes. You were doing it from a distance
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How far away you can be from a radio tower and still listen to it's music
Functional region
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Out west
Perceptual region
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Another word for perceptual region
Vernacular region
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Working region
Functional region

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