5738122614 | eucmene | portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement | 0 | |
5738122615 | Cartography | Originated from Chinese, Greek, and North African Scholars...the art of map making | 1 | |
5738122616 | Erastothenes | Head librarian of Alexandria during the third century BCE , was one of early cartographers | 2 | |
5738122617 | Ptolemy | published his "Guide to Geography" which included rough maps of the landmasses. | 3 | |
5738210048 | George Perkins Marsh | Made "Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action" provided first description of the extent to which Human's had shaped natural systems | 4 | |
5738350197 | cultural geography | Cultural landscapes , human-environment relations | 5 | |
5738350198 | quantitative revolution | stressed the use of empirical measurements and modern technology to explain geographic patterns | 6 | |
5738350199 | remote sensing | process of capturing images of earth from airborne platforms | 7 | |
5738350200 | Geographic Information System (GIS) | are a family of software programs that enables geographers to map, analyze, and model spatial data | 8 | |
5738350201 | Human Geography | Broadly defined as the study of human activities on Earth's surface but has major subcategories | 9 | |
5738350202 | Functional Regions | referred to as nodal regions , tie together because of social and economic relations | 10 | |
5738350203 | formal region | have characteristics that are relatively uniform from one place to another within a region | 11 | |
5738350204 | perceptual region | a region which exists in them minds of people and varies, such as the Deep American South | 12 |
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