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| 47408175 | map | a two-dimensional or flat scale model of Earth's surface, or a portion of it | |
| 47408176 | place | a specific point of Earth distinguished by a particular character | |
| 47408177 | region | an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features | |
| 47408178 | scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole | |
| 47408179 | space | refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects | |
| 47408180 | connections | relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | |
| 47408181 | cartography | the science of map-making | |
| 47408182 | projection | the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map | |
| 47408183 | 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 | |
| 47408184 | township | a square 6 miles on each side | |
| 47408185 | principal meridians | some of the north-south lines separating townships | |
| 47408186 | base lines | some east-west lines | |
| 47408187 | section | a square normally 1 mile on a side | |
| 47408188 | GIS (geographic information system) | a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze and display geographic data | |
| 47408189 | remote sensing | the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods | |
| 47408190 | GPS (global positioning system) | a system that determines accurately the precise position of something on Earth | |
| 47408191 | location | the position that something occupies on Earth's surface | |
| 47408192 | toponym | the name given to a place on Earth | |
| 47408193 | site | the physical character of a place | |
| 47408194 | situation | the location of a place relative to other places | |
| 47408195 | meridian | an arc drawn between the North and South poles | |
| 47408196 | parallel | a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians | |
| 47408197 | 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 | |
| 47408198 | prime meridian | the meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, is 0 degrees longitude | |
| 47408199 | latitude | the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel | |
| 47408200 | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | the time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude | |
| 47408201 | International Date Line | an arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas | |
| 47408202 | cultural landscape | a combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features | |
| 47408203 | regional studies | contemporary cultural landscape approach in geography | |
| 47408204 | formal region | an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics | |
| 47408205 | functional region | an area organized around a node or focal point | |
| 47408206 | vernacular region | a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity | |
| 47408207 | mental map | an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface | |
| 47408208 | culture | the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people | |
| 47408209 | cultural ecology | the geographic study of human-environment relationships | |
| 47408210 | environmental determinism | an approach on how the physical environment caused social development | |
| 47408211 | possibilism | the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives | |
| 47408212 | resources | substances that are useful to people, economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use | |
| 47408213 | polder | a piece of land that is created by draining water from any area | |
| 47408214 | globalization | a force of process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope | |
| 47408215 | distribution | the arrangement of a feature in space | |
| 47408216 | density | the frequency with which something occurs in space | |
| 47408217 | arithmetic density | the total number of objects in an area | |
| 47408218 | physiological density | the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture | |
| 47408219 | agricultural density | the number of farmers per unit of farmland | |
| 47408220 | concentration | the extent of a feature's spread over space | |
| 47408221 | pattern | the geometric arrangement of objects in space | |
| 47408222 | space-time compression | a term applied by geographers to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place | |
| 47408223 | distance decay | the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearence of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | |
| 47408224 | diffusion | the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time | |
| 47408225 | hearth | the place from which an innovation originates | |
| 47408226 | relocation diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another | |
| 47408227 | expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process | |
| 47408228 | hierarchical diffusion | the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | |
| 47408229 | contagious diffusion | the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population | |
| 47408230 | stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse | |
| 47408231 | uneven development | the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from globalization of the economy | |
| 47408232 | transnational corporation | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries |
