2910168953 | Absoloute location | A point on the earths surface expressed Nya coordinate system such as latitude and longitude. | 0 | |
2910168954 | Cartography | Practice of drawing maps | 1 | |
2910168955 | Circular pattern | The objects that circle another object; also known as centralized pattern | 2 | |
2910168956 | Cultural Landscape | Products of interactions between humans and their environment. | 3 | |
2910168957 | Daylight Saving Time | Pushes the clock for words one hour in spring in order to allow sunlight in the afternoon in the warm spring and summer months. | 4 | |
2910168958 | Distortion | The alteration of the original shape | 5 | |
2910168959 | Environmental geography | A branch of that centers on the interaction of human and physical geography on the environment | 6 | |
2910168960 | Equator | Imaginary circle/line that lies exactly halfway between north/south at 0 degrees latitude | 7 | |
2910168961 | Eratosthenes | Greek mathematician and geographer | 8 | |
2910168962 | Formal regions | An area that has striking similarities in terms of one or a few physical or cultural features | 9 | |
2910168963 | Functional regions | An area organized around cores or nodes | 10 | |
2910168964 | GIS | A computer system that capture, stores,and displays data | 11 | |
2910168965 | Globalization | The expansion of economic, political,and or cultural activities to the point they reach and have an impact on many areas around the world | 12 | |
2910168966 | Greenwich Mean Time | A standard time at the prime meridian | 13 | |
2910168967 | GPS | Global Positioning System | 14 | |
2910168968 | Grid Pattern | Reflects a rectangular system or land survey adopted in much of the country under the ordinance of 1785. | 15 | |
2910168969 | Hecataeus | Wealthy Greek historian | 16 | |
2910168970 | Human Geography | A branch of geography that focuses on people, dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earths surface. | 17 | |
2910168971 | Idrisi | Traveled with a team team to create maps | 18 | |
2910168972 | Kant, Immanuel | Philosopher | 19 | |
2910168973 | Landscape | The overall appearance of an area that is shaped by both human and natural influence | 20 | |
2910168974 | Latitude | Distance north and south of the equator | 21 | |
2910168975 | Linear pattern | A pattern that is along straight lines, like rivers, streets, on railroad tracks | 22 | |
2910168976 | Local time | The time in a particular region/área expressed with reference to the meridian passing through it | 23 | |
2910168977 | Location | Position of something on earths surface | 24 | |
2910168978 | Longitude | Numbering system that calculates distance east/west of the prime meridian | 25 | |
2910168979 | Marsh, George, Perkins | Considered to be Americas first environmentalists | 26 | |
2910168980 | Mercator projection | A cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator made to help ships navigate | 27 | |
2910168981 | Meridian | An arc drawn between the north and South Pole that measures in longitude | 28 | |
2910168982 | Multi-national cooperation so | Have centers of operation in many parts of the globe, where economic globalization is apparent through the proliferation of. | 29 | |
2910168983 | Parallel | Imaginary lines around the Earth parallel to the equator | 30 | |
2910168984 | Pattern | Arrangement of objects on the Earths surface in relationship to on another | 31 | |
2910168985 | Perceptual regions | Regions that are not formal and functional; they are the places that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity. | 32 | |
2910168986 | Periohery | The outside boundary or surface of something; the regions margins | 33 | |
2910168987 | Peter's Projection | Map projection known as the equal area map projection | 34 | |
2910168988 | Place | A specific point on the Earth with human and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other points | 35 | |
2910168989 | Physical geography | A branch of geography that deals with natural features and process. | 36 | |
2910168990 | Physical site characteristic | A location that includes climate, topography, soil, water sources, vegetation, and elevation | 37 | |
2910168991 | Prime meridian | Located at the observatory in Greenwich, England at 0 degrees longitude; an imaginary line that separates the globe into two halves, East and West | 38 | |
2910168992 | Ptolemy | Geographer that miscalculated the circumference of the earth | 39 | |
2910168993 | Random pattern | If no regular distribution can be seen | 40 | |
2910168994 | Regionalization | The tendency to form decentralized regions | 41 | |
2910168995 | Robinson projection | Correct distortion by curving the boundaries in on a map | 42 | |
2939874858 | Sauer, Carl | An early 20th century geographer from California that shaped the field of human geography by arguing that cultural landscapes should be the main focus of geographic study. His study is basic to environmental geography, and his methods of landscape analysis provided a lens for interpreting cultural landscapes as directly and indirectly altered over time as a result of human activity. | 43 | |
2939896957 | Scale | A device used for measuring | 44 | |
2939897439 | Site | the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment | 45 | |
2939898082 | Situaton | manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment | 46 | |
2939898728 | Solar time | Solar time is a reckoning of the passage of time based on the Sun's position in the sky. | 47 | |
2939899261 | Space | the portion or extent of this in a given instance; extent or room in three dimensions: | 48 | |
2939901175 | Space time compression | first articulated in 1989 by geographer David Harvey in The Condition of Postmodernity, refers to any phenomenon that alters the qualities of and relationship between space and time. | 49 | |
2939902586 | Spatial organization | can be observed when components of an abiotic or biological group are arranged non-randomly in space. | 50 | |
2939904348 | Spatial perspective | Way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of various spaces. | 51 | |
2939906410 | Time Zone | one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwich, England | 52 | |
2939908470 | Topography | the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area. | 53 | |
2939909294 | Toponym | a place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature. | 54 | |
2939911789 | U.S. Census Bureau | Bureau of Census' A division of the federal government of the United States Bureau of Commerce that is responsible for conducting the national census at least once every 10 years, in which the population of the United States is counted. | 55 | |
2939912787 | Why of where | Explanations for why a spatial pattern occurs | 56 |
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