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| 274536350 | Spatial | - of or pertaining to space on or near Earth's surface. Often a synonym for geographical and used as an adjective to describe specific geographic concepts or processes. | |
| 274536351 | Absolute Location | - the exact position of an object or place stated in spatial coordinates or a grid system designed for locational purposes, e.g., latitude and longitude. | |
| 274536352 | Relative Location | - the position of a place or activity in relation to other places or activities; implies spatial relationships and usually suggests the relative advantages or disadvantages of a location with respect to all competing locations. | |
| 274536353 | Site | - the physical character of a place; the absolute location of a place or activity described by local relief, landform, and other physical characteristics. | |
| 274536354 | Situation | - the relative location of a place or activity in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the larger regional or spatial system of which it is a part; the location of a place relative to other places. | |
| 274536355 | Place Name (Toponym) | - the name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | |
| 274536356 | Direction (absolute, relative) | ... | |
| 274536357 | Distance (absolute, relative) | ... | |
| 274536358 | Size | ... | |
| 274536359 | Scale (implied degree of generalization) | - the size of an area student, from local to global. | |
| 274536360 | Physical attributes | - natural landscape | |
| 274536361 | Cultural attribute | - cultural landscape | |
| 274536362 | Built landscape | - the part of the physical landscape that represents material culture; the buildings, roads, bridges, and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape. | |
| 274536363 | Sequent occupance | - successive habitation of same area over time; builds layer after layer in the region. | |
| 274536364 | Environmental determinism | - a nineteenth and early twentieth century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences; physical environment caused human activities. | |
| 274536365 | Possibilism | - the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action form many alternatives. | |
| 274536366 | Spatial interaction | - the movement and flows involving human activity. | |
| 274536367 | Accessibility | - the opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location, in relation to other locations. | |
| 274536368 | Connectivity | - the directness of routes linking pairs of places; an indication of the degree of internal connection in a transport network; all of the tangible and intangible means of connection and communication between places. | |
| 274536369 | Network | - the areal pattern of sets of places and the routes (links) connecting them along which movement can take place. | |
| 274536370 | Distance decay | - the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | |
| 274536371 | Friction of distance | - a measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction; the greater the distance, the greater the "friction" and the less the interaction or exchange, or the greater the cost of achieving the exchange. | |
| 274536372 | Time-spaced compression | - an influence on the rate of expansion diffusion of an idea, observing that the spread or acceptance of an idea is usually delayed as distance from the source of the innovation increases. | |
| 274536373 | Diffusion | - the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. | |
| 274536374 | Hearth | - the region from which innovative ideas originate. | |
| 274536375 | Relocation | - the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | |
| 274536376 | Expansion | - the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | |
| 274536377 | Hierarchical | - the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places; spread of culture from one important / large area to another important / large area. | |
| 274536378 | Contagious | - the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend though out a population; person to person spread of culture. | |
| 274536379 | Stimulus | - the spread of a n underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | |
| 274536380 | Distribution | - the arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | |
| 274536381 | Density Arithmetic | - the total number of people divided by the total land area. | |
| 274536382 | Physiological | - the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | |
| 274536383 | Dispersed / Scattered | - a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. | |
| 274536384 | Clustered / agglomerated | - a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. | |
| 274536385 | Pattern (linear, centralized, random) | ... | |
| 274536386 | Region (formal/uniform, functional / nodal, perceptual / vernacular) | - an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. | |
| 274536387 | Formal Region | - an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. | |
| 274536388 | Functional Region (Nodal) | - an area organized around a node or focal point. | |
| 274536389 | Perceptual / Vernacular | - an area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity. | |
| 274536390 | Map | - a two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it. | |
| 274536391 | Map Scale | -distance on a map relative to the distance on Earth. | |
| 274536392 | Distortion | - area, distance, direction, shape | |
| 274536393 | Projection | - the system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | |
| 274536394 | Grid (North and South Poles, latitude, parallel, Equator, longitude, meridian, prime meridian, International Date Line) | ... | |
| 274536395 | Latitude | - the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the Equator. | |
| 274536396 | Longitude | - the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian. | |
| 274536397 | Equator | - an imaginary east-west line that encircles the globe halfway between the North and South Poles. | |
| 274536398 | Meridian | - line of longitude | |
| 274536399 | Prime Meridian | - an imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, serving by agreement as the 0º line of longitude. | |
| 274536400 | International Date Line | - an arc that fro the most part follows 180º longitude, although it deviates in several place to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross it heading east, the clock moves back 24 hours, and when you cross it going west the calendar moves ahead one day. | |
| 274536401 | Map Types (thematic, statistical, cartogram, dot, choropleth, isoline, graduated circle) | ... | |
| 274536402 | Thematic | - a map that demonstrates a particular feature or a single variable. Four types: dot, isoline, choropleth, and proportional symbol. | |
| 274536403 | Dot | - a thematic map in which a dot represents some frequency of the mapped variable. | |
| 274536404 | Chloropleth | - a thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are depicted with shading patterns or colors for predefined zones. | |
| 274536405 | Isoline | - a thematic map with lines that connect points of equal value. | |
| 274536406 | Cartogram | - a map that has been simplified to present a single idea ina diagrammatic way: the base is not normally true to scale. | |
| 274536407 | Proportional Symbol | - a thematic map in which the size of a symbol varies in proportion to the frequency or intensity of the mapped variable. | |
| 274536408 | Mental Map | - (cognitive map) the map like image of the world, country, region, city, or neighborhood a person carries in mind. | |
| 274536409 | Time zone | - a geographic region within which the same standard time is used. | |
| 274536410 | Geographic Information System (GIS) | - a computer hardware and software system that handles geographically referenced data; it uses and produces maps and has the ability to perform many types of spatial analysis. | |
| 274536411 | Global Positioning System (GPS) | - a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. | |
| 274536412 | Remote sensing | - the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | |
| 274536413 | Model | - a simplified abstraction of reality, structured to clarify causal relationships: e.g., Demographic Transition, Gravity Model, etc. |
