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| the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | ||
| The total number of people divided by the total land area. | ||
| An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. | ||
| the science of making maps | ||
| The spread of something over a given area. | ||
| Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | ||
| The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | ||
| geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships | ||
| A combonation of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and inudstry and physical features such as climate and vegetation | ||
| the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition | ||
| The frequency with which something occurs in space | ||
| The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. | ||
| The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | ||
| The arrangement of something across Earth's surface or space | ||
| 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. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. | ||
| The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | ||
| An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics | ||
| An area organized around a node or focal point | ||
| a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data | ||
| a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver | ||
| growth to a global or worldwide scale | ||
| The time in that time zone ecompassing the Prime Meridian, or 0 degrees longitude | ||
| the region from which innovative ideas originate | ||
| The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | ||
| An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day. | ||
| A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. | ||
| The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator | ||
| The position of anything on Earth's surface. | ||
| The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°). |
