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5738122614eucmeneportion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement0
5738122615CartographyOriginated from Chinese, Greek, and North African Scholars...the art of map making1
5738122616ErastothenesHead librarian of Alexandria during the third century BCE , was one of early cartographers2
5738122617Ptolemypublished his "Guide to Geography" which included rough maps of the landmasses.3
5738210048George Perkins MarshMade "Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action" provided first description of the extent to which Human's had shaped natural systems4
5738350197cultural geographyCultural landscapes , human-environment relations5
5738350198quantitative revolutionstressed the use of empirical measurements and modern technology to explain geographic patterns6
5738350199remote sensingprocess of capturing images of earth from airborne platforms7
5738350200Geographic Information System (GIS)are a family of software programs that enables geographers to map, analyze, and model spatial data8
5738350201Human GeographyBroadly defined as the study of human activities on Earth's surface but has major subcategories9
5738350202Functional Regionsreferred to as nodal regions , tie together because of social and economic relations10
5738350203formal regionhave characteristics that are relatively uniform from one place to another within a region11
5738350204perceptual regiona region which exists in them minds of people and varies, such as the Deep American South12

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