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| 202477188 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. | |
| 202477189 | Township | A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships. | |
| 202477190 | Principal Meridians | north-south or longitude lines | |
| 202477191 | Hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate, orgin | |
| 202477192 | Base Lines | East-West Lines, latitude lines | |
| 202477193 | Sections | smaller divisions of a township | |
| 202477194 | Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method | |
| 202477195 | Cultural Ecology | the geographic study of human environment relationships | |
| 202477196 | Toponym | name given to a portion of Earth's surface, the name by which a geographical place is known | |
| 202477197 | Site | identifies a place by its unique physical characteristics | |
| 202477198 | Situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings | |
| 202477199 | Environmental Determinism | the focus of how the physical environment causes social development | |
| 202477200 | Formal Region | An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics, uniform region | |
| 202477201 | Functional Region | an area localized by a node or focal point | |
| 202477202 | Vernacular Region | a place that that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity, perceptual region | |
| 202477203 | Possibilism | the theory that the environment sets certain limitations | |
| 202477204 | Polder | piece of land that is created by draining water from an area | |
| 202477205 | Transnational Corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located, McDonalds, IBM, and Coca-Cola | |
| 202477206 | Arithmetic Density | # of people / land area | |
| 202477207 | Physiological Density | # of people / arable land | |
| 202477208 | Agricultural Density | # of farmers of / land area | |
| 202477209 | Space-Time Compression | the reduction in time that takes something to reach another place | |
| 202477210 | International Date Line | 180 degrees longitude, located in the pacific, an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | |
| 202477211 | Hierarchical Diffusion | spreads from the rich to the poor, eg. prestigious name brands | |
| 202477212 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination. | |
| 202477213 | Relocation Diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement | |
| 202477214 | Stimulus Diffusion | inventions, spread of an underlying principle of technology | |
| 202477215 | Contagious Diffusion | spreads rapidly from a point by proximity, the closer the more likely it is to spread | |
| 202477216 | Cartography | the making of maps and charts | |
| 202477217 | Map Scale | compares a distance on a map with a distance in the real world, shows the ratio between distances on a map and distances on the earth | |
| 202477218 | Small Scale | shows larger amount of Earth, less detail, zoomed out | |
| 202477219 | Large Scale | shows smaller amount of Earth, more detail, zoomed in | |
| 202477220 | Map Projection | ways of drawing the earth on a flat surface, things that typically become distorted: Shape, Size, Direction, and Distance. SSDD | |
| 202477221 | GIS | geographic information system, a computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data | |
| 202477222 | Eratosthenes | first person to use the word geography, Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the moon and sun (276-194 BC) | |
| 202477223 | spatial association | the concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of other phenomena | |
| 202477224 | spatial distribution | the arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface | |
| 202477225 | dike | converting something to a water source | |
| 202477226 | concentration | the spatial property of being crowded together |
