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| 6780126608 | Map Scale | The level of detail and the amount of area covered on a map. Presented in ratio to fraction, a written scale, or a graphic scale | 0 | |
| 6780126610 | Meridian | An arc drawn between the North and South poles | 1 | |
| 6780126611 | Longitude | A numbering system that identifies the location of each meridian | 2 | |
| 6780126612 | Prime meridian | 0 degrees longitude, passes through Greenwich, England | 3 | |
| 6780126613 | Parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. | 4 | |
| 6780126614 | Latitude | The numbering system used to locate a parralel | 5 | |
| 6780126615 | Greenwich Mean Time(GMT) | The master reference time for all points on earth. | 6 | |
| 6780126616 | International Date Line | Lies between Auckland and Honolulu. For the most part follows 180 longitude. You move the clock back 24 hours if heading eastward toward America. You turn it ahead if you're heading westward toward Asia. | 7 | |
| 6780126618 | GPS | The system that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth | 8 | |
| 6780126619 | Geographic information system | A computer system that captures, stores, queries, analyzes, and displays layered geographic data. | 9 | |
| 6780126620 | Place | 5 themes - what a place looks like or what makes it unique | 10 | |
| 6780126621 | Location | The position that something occupies on Earth's surface. 5 Themes | 11 | |
| 6780126623 | Site | The physical character of a place | 12 | |
| 6780126624 | Situation | The location of a place relative to other places | 13 | |
| 6780126625 | Region | An area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics | 14 | |
| 6780126626 | Cultural Landscape | A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation. | 15 | |
| 6780126628 | Formal region | An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. | 16 | |
| 6780126629 | Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point. (Nodal) | 17 | |
| 6780126630 | Vernacular region | An area that people believes exists as part of their cultural identity. | 18 | |
| 6780126631 | Mental Map | An internal representation of a portion of earth's surface | 19 | |
| 6780126632 | Culture | The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people. | 20 | |
| 6780126633 | Globalization | A force or process that involves the entire world and results In making something worldwide in scope. | 21 | |
| 6780126634 | Scale | The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. | 22 | |
| 6780126637 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects | 23 | |
| 6780126638 | Distribution | The arrangement of a feature in space | 24 | |
| 6780126639 | Density | The frequency with which something occurs in space | 25 | |
| 6780126642 | Hearth | Mapable starting point | 26 | |
| 6780126643 | Diffusion | The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time. | 27 | |
| 6780126644 | Relocation diffusion | The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another | 28 | |
| 6780126645 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature from one one place to another in an additive process-stimulus, hierarchical, contagious | 29 | |
| 6780126646 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | 30 | |
| 6780126647 | Contagious diffuson | The rapid, widespread diffusion of A characteristic throughout the population. | 31 | |
| 6780126648 | Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle with modifications | 32 | |
| 6780126649 | Remote sensing | The acquisition of data about earth's surface from a satellite orbiting earth or from other long distance methods | 33 | |
| 6893703707 | Example stimulus diffusion | Maharaja Mac in India | 34 | |
| 6893714359 | Mercator Projection | compromise projection that preserves accurate compass direction, but distorts the shapes of the continents at the poles -used by pilots and ships captains | 35 | |
| 6893723568 | Mercator picture |  | 36 | |
| 6893732767 | Robinson projection | compromise projection that is an attempt to balance projection by minimizing errors and shows the entire earth with nearly the true sizes and shapes of the continents and oceans, but shapes of the landforms near the poles appear flat (commonly used in textbooks) | 37 | |
| 6893733882 | Robinson projection picture |  | 38 | |
| 6893738995 | Homolosine projection | compromise projection that shows the accurate shapes and sizes of land, but distorts compass direction (also called an interrupted map) | 39 | |
| 6893778017 | Isoline map | thematic map with continuous lines joining points of the same values e.g. temperature | 40 | |
| 6893781987 | choropleth map | thematic map that uses shading or coloring to show statistical data e.g. population of states | 41 | |
| 6893786429 | dot map | thematic map that uses dots to indicate a feature or occurrence e.g. urban population | 42 | |
| 6893786430 | dot map example |  | 43 | |
| 7213743298 | cartogram | pictorial presentation resembling a map | 44 | |
| 7213744681 | connectivity | amount of linkage between one place and others for transportation | 45 | |
| 7213745569 | accessibility | how easy it is to get from one place to other places | 46 | |
| 7213746599 | regionalism | how a group perceives its identification with a particular region and classifications geographers use | 47 | |
| 7213752974 | distance decay | how distance affects interactions, usually far distances interact less than near ones | 48 | |
| 7213754124 | environmental determinism | the thinking that the natural env. has a controlling influence over the development of culture | 49 | |
| 7213755613 | possibilism | the thinking that human decision making, not the env. is crucial for culture development | 50 | |
| 7213758776 | political ecology | how govt policies reflect societal beliefs about the environment | 51 | |
| 7213761116 | sequent occupance | the idea that successive societies leave their imprint on the cultural landscape | 52 | |
| 7213765667 | cartogram example |  | 53 | |
| 7213767519 | dot map example |  | 54 | |
| 7213770035 | Azimuthal projection example |  | 55 | |
| 7213771357 | Five Themes of Geography | location, place,region, movement, human -env interaction | 56 | |
| 7213778975 | isoline map picture |  | 57 | |
| 7213782108 | Time-space convergence | the speeding up of the movement of goods, information, and ideas due to advances in technology-transportation, communication | 58 | |
| 7217515171 | choropleth map example |  | 59 | |
| 7221885010 | Direction (absolute, relative) | Relative=about 4 hours or just past the Publix North, South, East, West | 60 | |
| 7221888216 | Distance (absolute, relative) | Absolute=12 miles or 200 kilometers relative=beyond the edge of town | 61 | |
| 7234857603 | friction of distance | the idea that farther away places have greater friction of distance than closer ones, related to effort | 62 | |
| 7234860266 | friction of distance example | Miami to Atlanta > Miami to Paris | 63 | |
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