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| 6383406271 | Space | the physical gap or distance between two objects | 0 | |
| 6383408477 | scale | the relationship between the size of an object or distance between objects on a map and the size of the actual eject or distance on earths surface | 1 | |
| 6383413965 | Pattern | the arrangement of objects on eats surface in relionshop to one another | 2 | |
| 6383416654 | Regionalization | the organization of eats surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas. | 3 | |
| 6383418282 | Globalization | the expansion of economic, polical and cultural activities | 4 | |
| 6383421983 | spatial origination | the locations of places, people and events and the connections among places and landscapes | 5 | |
| 6383427951 | Geography was studied by greek gods from the words? | geo "the earth" and graphein "to write" | 6 | |
| 6383431000 | cartography | the art and science of map making | 7 | |
| 6383436492 | geography was reborn in? | Europe in the 17th century as a broad study | 8 | |
| 6383442772 | Immanuel Kant defines geography as | the study of interrelated spatial patterns | 9 | |
| 6383449750 | Geopraphy became more specialized such as | sub fields like cultural, social urban, population, medical, economic and political | 10 | |
| 6383457872 | Human Geography focus on | PEOPLE - Where are they? How are they alike and different? | 11 | |
| 6383467108 | Physical geography | focus on the natural environment itself such as glaciers coastlines and climates | 12 | |
| 6383469282 | Spatial perspective | means that they notice patterns of both natural and human environments, distributions of people, and locations of all kinds of objects | 13 | |
| 6383470718 | Absolute location | maps provide the exact location of a place on mathematical grid of the earth divided by two sets of imaginary arcs: meridian and parallels | 14 | |
| 6383474759 | Eratosthens | a greek scholar and accurately calculated the circumference of the earth by the sun angles and used geometry to conclude the circumference based on distance | 15 | |
| 6383480098 | Ptolemy | recalculated the circumference of the earth and to be much smaller, but was WRONG but was taken as truth for hundreds of years | 16 | |
| 6383483871 | Idrisi | a 11 century Arab geographer, worked for the kind of sicily to collect geophrical | 17 | |
| 6383488014 | Geoge Perkins Marsh | classic work in Man and nature Focused on the impact go human actions on the natural environment | 18 | |
| 6383494069 | Carl sauer | geographer from CAlifromia, interactions between humans and environment | 19 | |
| 6383499638 | Equator | imaginary circle that lies exactly half way between north and south poles | 20 | |
| 6383504018 | Paralles measure latitude or | distance north and south of the equator | 21 | |
| 6383509487 | Relative location | All places on earth have a reactive location | 22 | |
| 6383511557 | Reference material | maps are efficient tools for sorting information. maps show roads or waterways that connect places | 23 | |
| 6383516352 | communication/education | maps may also be used to explain spatial perspectives to other. soil types, relative equations and economic prosperity levels | 24 | |
| 6383529277 | Cartograhers faces the issue of distortion caused by.. | trying to represent a three dimensional object on earth, on a two dimensional surface | 25 | |
| 6383539114 | Projection | method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map | 26 | |
| 6383542697 | The mercator projection | Flemish cartopgraher Geradus Mercator Pros: navigating ships across the Atlatic ocean between Europe and the Americas. Aif to navigators Cons: Distorts size and areas as a flat piece of paper Anartoca and the south of Greenland in the north look huge | 27 | |
| 6383573736 | The robinson projection | Pros: tried to correct for this distortion in the high north and south latitudes Shapes are not distorted very badly within 45 degrees north or south of the equator. Cons: Makes erros in four ways shape size distance and direction best for wall maps and classrooms | 28 | |
| 6383592825 | The peters projection | Pros: focuses on keeping land masses equal in area. Cons: Afrerica and latin america appear smaller, shapes are disotred resulting in overall map that seems unfamiliar to most viewers | 29 | |
| 6383604208 | Contour map | designed to reveal the nature of local topography. Usful for hikers and for engineers or developers as they construct best places to build homes | 30 | |
| 6383614852 | Scale important tool and has two meanings | Size of the unit studied and Map Scale | 31 | |
| 6383616635 | Size of the unit studied | refer to the problem such as drought on a local scale, region scale or global scale | 32 | |
| 6383618217 | Map Scale | tells up the mathematical relationship between the size of an area on a map | 33 | |
| 6383622232 | Scale affects... | our perception of accuracy and the truth Local global continuum - phenomena at one level influence those at other levels | 34 | |
| 6383633226 | The earth is divided into.. | 360 degrees of longitude | 35 | |
| 6383637104 | time zone | a region that has adopted the same standard time and usually referred to as the local time | 36 | |
| 6383644374 | Greenwich Mean Time | the standard time at the prime meridian | 37 | |
| 6383649159 | International Date Line | divides the world from pole to pole through the pacific ocean | 38 | |
| 6383653851 | Solar time | based on the position of the sun in the sky as the day progresses | 39 | |
| 6383663612 | Place identified in four ways | place names, site, situation and absolute location | 40 | |
| 6383667764 | Place name | most places on earth have names or toponyms to show them from others | 41 | |
| 6383672776 | Site | location may also be defines by site like physical site characteristics phyiscal site characteristics include climate, topography, soil, water sources, vegetation and elevation | 42 | |
| 6383679235 | Situation | this charateriscs refers to relative location highly subject to change | 43 | |
| 6383685330 | Abosoulte location | a place may be located by mathematical calcauting its location | 44 | |
| 6383688194 | Pattern | arrangement of objects on eats surface in relation to other objects | 45 | |
| 6383691726 | grid | rectilinear pattern relfects a rectangular system of land survey | 46 | |
| 6383699290 | regionaliztion | the organization of eats surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas | 47 | |
| 6383705534 | Rectillnear pattern | reflects a rectifier system of land survey adopted on much of the country | 48 | |
| 6383712670 | formal regions | formal region is an area that has sticking similarities in terms of one ore a few physical features | 49 | |
| 6383715129 | Perceptual regions | vernacuar regions, example despite Korean peninsula is divided into two formal region, North and South people of the area have long history as Koranes with cook language | 50 | |
| 6383725213 | Fuctional regions | called nodal regions, areas organized around cores or nodes The core area has distant characteristics that lessen in intensity as one traveles into the periphery | 51 | |
| 6383737934 | Globaliztion | expansion of economic, political and cultural activities to the piot that they reach and have impact on any areas of the world | 52 | |
| 6383746284 | space time compression | the changes that rapid connections among places and regions have brought | 53 | |
| 6383750938 | Multi national corporations have... | centers of operation in many parts of the globe | 54 | |
| 6383754642 | GIS | a computer system that captures stories and analyze and displays data | 55 | |
| 6383757773 | field baed skills include | familiarity with and ability to manipulate and interpret GIS catpgrpahy and cumpet mapping competence in data analysis and problem solving | 56 | |
| 6383764687 | GPS | uses a series of satellites tracking stations and receivers to determine precise absolute locations on earth | 57 | |
| 6383773540 | Biggest employers of geographers in US is | U.S. Census Bureau | 58 |
