7558473411 | Place | A specific location | 0 | |
7558473412 | Region | An area on earth marked by a specific pattern | 1 | |
7558473413 | map scale | the relationship between a distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground | 2 | |
7558473414 | large scale map | Cities and towns | 3 | |
7558473415 | small scale map | World maps or maps of large regions | 4 | |
7558473416 | Cartography | The practice of making maps | 5 | |
7558473417 | distortion | The act of changing the truth to give people a false idea | 6 | |
7558473418 | GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | 7 | |
7558473419 | GPS (global positioning system) | A radio navigation system thqt lets anyone in all elements know their location | 8 | |
7558473420 | remote sensing | Using satellite to detect and classify objects on earth | 9 | |
7558473421 | absolute location | The location of a place based on a fixed point on earth | 10 | |
7558473422 | relative location | the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | 11 | |
7558473423 | toponym | A places name derived from a topographical feature | 12 | |
7558473424 | Site vs situation | The location and growth if a settlement depended up its site and situation | 13 | |
7558473425 | Latitude | Distance north or south of the equator | 14 | |
7558473426 | Parallel | Another name for a line of latitude. | 15 | |
7558473427 | Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles | 16 | |
7558473428 | Tropic of Capricorn | 23.5 degrees south | 17 | |
7558473429 | Tropic of Cancer | 23.5 degrees North | 18 | |
7558473430 | Longitude | E/w coordinates | 19 | |
7558473431 | Meridians | A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place | 20 | |
7558473432 | Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude | 21 | |
7558473433 | Greenwich Mean Time | the time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude | 22 | |
7558473434 | International date line | Passrs through the mid pacific ocean | 23 | |
7558473435 | Regions | Has definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries | 24 | |
7558473436 | Formal uniform region | Defined formal by government or other structures | 25 | |
7558473437 | Functional nodal region | Area organized around a node or focal pont | 26 | |
7558473438 | vernacular region | Defined by subjective perceptions | 27 | |
7558473439 | cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | 28 | |
7558473440 | Culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitude and habitual behavior patterns share and transmitted by the members of a society | 29 | |
7558473441 | Globalization | The increasing interdependence of citizens and nations across the world. | 30 | |
7558473442 | Transnational corporation | Incorporated or unincorporated enterprises comprising parent enterprises and their foreign affiliates | 31 | |
7558473443 | Globalization of culture | Transmission of ideas, values etc arount the world | 32 | |
7558473444 | Space | Defined by doreen massey and pat jess as "social relations streched out" | 33 | |
7558473445 | Distribution | the action of sharing something out among a number of recipients. | 34 | |
7558473446 | Density | the degree of compactness of a substance. | 35 | |
7558473447 | Concentration | the action or power of focusing one's attention or mental effort. | 36 | |
7558473448 | Pattern | The design of a spatial distrubution | 37 | |
7558473449 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | Where settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west | 38 | |
7558473450 | connection | A relationship in which a thing is linked with something else | 39 | |
7558473451 | Diffusion | The spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture element or some other phenomenon | 40 | |
7558473452 | Hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates | 41 | |
7558473453 | relocation diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another | 42 | |
7558473454 | expansion diffusion | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area | 43 | |
7558473455 | Hierarchical Diffusion | an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples | 44 | |
7558473456 | Contagious Diffusion | Controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person | 45 | |
7558473457 | Stimulus diffusion | Which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the intro of a cultural trait from another place | 46 | |
7558473458 | Space time compression | The increasing sons of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer even though their distances are the same | 47 | |
7558473459 | Unequal access | When not everyone has the same amount of access to the internet | 48 | |
7558473460 | Uneven development | Persistent differences in levels and rates of economic development between different sectors of the economy | 49 | |
7558473461 | Resources | A source or supply or support | 50 | |
7558473462 | Renewable vs non renewable resource | Resources that can be regenerated as they are exploited versus resources that are present in quantities because they are not self replenishing or take an extrodinarily long time to replenish | 51 | |
7558473463 | sustainablility | The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level | 52 | |
7558473464 | Conservation | The action of conserving something in particular | 53 | |
7558473465 | Preservation | The action of preserving something | 54 | |
7558473466 | Abiotic | Non-living | 55 | |
7558473467 | Biotic | Relating to a resulting from living things especially in their ecological relations | 56 | |
7558473468 | Climate | The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over longperiod | 57 | |
7558473469 | Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment | 58 | |
7558473470 | Erosion and depletion of nutrients | Raising nutrients, polluted soil | 59 | |
7558473471 | Cultural Ecology | The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment | 60 | |
7558473472 | Environmental determinism | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development | 61 | |
7558473473 | Possibilism | viewpoint that people, not environments, are the dynamic forces of cultural development | 62 |
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