Vocab (1)

Question 1

Connectivity

Answer 1

The relationship among people and objects across a barrier of space

Question 2

Accessibility

Answer 2

The degree of ease which it is possible to reach certain lacations from other locations

Question 3

Sense of place

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The emotive bonds and attachments people developor experience in particular location and enviorment

Question 4

Taponyms

Answer 4

Another word for name, but is specific to loacations

Question 5

Time-Space compression

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The way that the world is seemingly getting smaller, or compressing, as a result of increased transport, communication, and capitalist processes

Question 6

Spatial Interaction

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The flow of information, products,and human beings from one location to another.

Question 7

Friction of distance

Answer 7

Movement that occurs in some form of cost, in the form of physical effort, energy, time, and/or the expendicture of other resources, and that these cost are proportional to the distance traveled

Question 8

Distance Decay

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Describes the effect of distance on culture or spatial interaction

Question 9

Spatial Model

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Stylized map, illustated theories about spatial distrabutions

Question 10

physical geography

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Focuses on natural enviorment’s influence onhuman behavior and settlement patterns

Question 11

Human Geography

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Spatial relationships between human communities, cultural, economies, and their interactions with the enviorment

Question 12

Latitude

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The angular distance of a palce north or south of the earth’s equater

Question 12

Absolute location

Answer 12

A fixed position that never changes, regardless of your current location

Question 13

Longitude

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Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees

Question 14

Equator

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An imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestrial bady

Question 15

Prime meridian

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The earth’s zero of longitude

Question 16

International data line

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A “line of demarcation” seperating two consective callender dates

Question 17

Relative location

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A description of how a place is related to other places

Question 18

Field Observation

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The process of observing and collecting data about people, cultural, and the natural enviorment

Question 19

Spatial data

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Information that has a geographic aspect to it

Question 20

Built environment

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The Physical space of the enviorment which is human-made or madifable and where people live and carry out their daily activities

Question 21

Cutural landscapes

Answer 21

A historical significant property that shows evidence of human interaction with the physical enviorment