10845588842 | Agricultural Density | The number of farmers per unit area of farmland. This may mean that the country has inefficient agriculture. | 0 | |
10845593305 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of objects in an area. It is used to distribute population in different countries. | 1 | |
10845595551 | Baselines | The east:west lines separating a township. | 2 | |
10845798440 | Cartography | The science of mapmaking. | 3 | |
10845801100 | Concentration | The extent of a feature spread over space. | 4 | |
10845803058 | Connections | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. | 5 | |
10845805090 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread of diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population. | 6 | |
10845811488 | Cultural ecology | The geographic study of human:environment relationships. | 7 | |
10845813460 | Cultural Landscape | A combination of cultural features such as language and religion. | 8 | |
10845813462 | Culture | The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms. | 9 | |
10845816560 | Density | The frequency with which something occurs in space. | 10 | |
10845818098 | Diffusion | The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time. | 11 | |
10845820209 | Distance Decay | Contact decreases with increasing distance and eventually disappears. | 12 | |
10845822592 | Distribution | The arrangement of a feature in space. The three main properties of distribution are density, concentration, and pattern. | 13 | |
10845889621 | Environmental Determinism | Understanding relationships between physical environment and human actions. How physical environment caused social development. | 14 | |
10845891384 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. | 15 | |
10845896997 | Three process | Hierarchical diffusion, Contagious diffusion, Stimulus diffusion. | 16 | |
10845899685 | Formal Region | Also called a uniform region or a homogeneous region, is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. | 17 | |
10845901524 | Functional Region | Also called a nodal region, is an area organized around a node or focal point. | 18 | |
10845904350 | Geographic Information System | GIS is a computer system that captures, stores, query, analyze, and display geographic data. | 19 | |
10845906220 | Globalization | A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope | 20 | |
10845908149 | Greenwich Mean Tim | The international agreement designated the time at the prime meridian. It is the master reference time for all points on Earth. | 21 | |
10845910282 | Hearth | The place from which an innovation originates. Something originates at a hearth or node and diffuses from there to another place. | 22 | |
10845912618 | Hierarchical Diffusion: | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places. | 23 | |
10845914078 | International Date Line | Move the clock backwards 24 hours if you are heading eastward. Move the clock ahead 24 hours if you are heading westward. | 24 | |
10845914141 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | Divided much of the country into a system of townships and ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settlers in the west. | 25 | |
10845916437 | Latitude | The numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel. | 26 | |
10845927467 | Map | A two dimensional, or flat representation of the earth. | 27 | |
10845918111 | Longitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridian dran on a glove and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°) | 28 | |
10845927468 | Mental map | An internal representation of a portion of the earth based on personal impression | 29 | |
10845930198 | Meridian | An arc drawn on a map between the north and the south pole | 30 | |
10845932010 | Parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at high proportions of the population | 31 | |
10845934136 | Pattern | Geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study | 32 | |
10845940211 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 33 | |
10845940212 | Place | A specific part on earth | 34 | |
10845942081 | Polder | Land created by the dutch by draining water from the area | 35 | |
10845946610 | Possibilism | Theory of environment causing human limitations | 36 | |
10845948231 | Prime Meridian | The meridian, designed as 0° longitude, passes through the Royal observatory at Greenwich England | 37 | |
10845949515 | Projection | The system used to transfer location from Earth's surface to flat map. | 38 | |
10845953921 | Region | an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends | 39 | |
10845955847 | Regional Studies | Geography that emphasizes the relationship between social and physical in study areas. | 40 | |
10845959173 | Relocation Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people. | 41 | |
10845960684 | Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about earth's surface | 42 | |
10845964342 | Resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people economically and technologically feasible to access and socially acceptable to use | 43 | |
10845964343 | Scale | Portion of earth on map and real life | 44 | |
10845966160 | Section | a square normally one mile on a side | 45 | |
10845967912 | Site | Physical character of a place. | 46 | |
10845970359 | Situation | The location of a place relative to other people | 47 | |
10845973977 | Space | Physical gap of interval between Objects | 48 | |
10845974770 | Space Time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transport system | 49 |
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