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| 6675423191 | absolute location | The exact position of an object or place, measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system. | 0 | |
| 6675426298 | cartography | science or art of making maps | 1 | |
| 6675428898 | circular pattern | objects that circle another object; also known as centralized pattern | 2 | |
| 6675431352 | cultural landscapes | The products of complex interactions between humans and their environments. | 3 | |
| 6675431353 | daylight savings time | the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less | 4 | |
| 6675432619 | distortion | a change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map | 5 | |
| 6675435534 | environmental geography | The formal study of human-environment relations. | 6 | |
| 6675435535 | equator | An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole | 7 | |
| 6675438182 | Eratosthenes | one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the earth's circumference. He is also credited with coining the term "geography." | 8 | |
| 6675438183 | formal regions | Areas that have common cultural or physical features | 9 | |
| 6675441334 | functional regions | (nodal) can be defined around a certain point or node | 10 | |
| 6675441335 | GIS | computer system that captures, stores, analyzes, and displays data | 11 | |
| 6675443251 | globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. | 12 | |
| 6675444910 | Greenwich Mean Time | The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude. used to referance all time | 13 | |
| 6675444911 | GPS | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. | 14 | |
| 6675444912 | grid pattern | intersecting lines of longitude and latitude that determine absolute location on a map | 15 | |
| 6675448213 | Hecataeus | a greek scientist, who wrote a book about geography and illustrated a map of the countries and inhabitants of the known world. | 16 | |
| 6675450414 | human geography | a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction | 17 | |
| 6675450415 | Idrisi | An 11th century Arab geographer that worked for the king of Sicily to collect geographical information into a remarkably accurate representation of the world. Under his direction, an academy of geographers gathered maps and went out on their own scientific expeditions. | 18 | |
| 6675453928 | Kant, Immanuel | German philosopher and geographer who defined geography as the study of interrelated spatial patterns | 19 | |
| 6675453929 | landscapes | The overall appearance of an area that is shaped by both human and natural influences | 20 | |
| 6675455990 | latitude | An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | 21 | |
| 6675683786 | linear pattern | A pattern of land use which develops along a line, such as a highway or river. | 22 | |
| 6675683787 | local time | The standard time in the region that a person lives in | 23 | |
| 6675683788 | location | The position of anything on Earth's surface. | 24 | |
| 6675686933 | 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 (0°). | 25 | |
| 6675691579 | Marsh, George Perkins | American geographer who focused on the impact of human actions on the natural environment | 26 | |
| 6675693746 | Mercator projection | A true conformal cylindrical map projection, the Mercator projection is particularly useful for navigation because it maintains accurate direction. Mercator projections are famous for their distortion in area that makes landmasses at the poles appear oversized. |  | 27 |
| 6675693747 | meridian | A line of longitude that runs north-south. All lines of longitude are equal in length and intersect at the poles. | 28 | |
| 6675696257 | multi-national corporations | an organization that owns or controls productions of goods or services in one or more countries other than the home country. | 29 | |
| 6675696258 | parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. | 30 | |
| 6675698273 | pattern | geometric arrangement of objects in space | 31 | |
| 6675700157 | perceptual regions | (vernacular) Conceptual regions such as the Midwest or the South that people recognize but cannot be clearly delineated on a map | 32 | |
| 6675859043 | periphery | the outside edge of a region | 33 | |
| 6675859044 | Peters projection | An equal-area projection purposely centered on Africa in an attempt to treat all regions of Earth equally. Caused distortion of land shapes |  | 34 |
| 6675860822 | place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic | 35 | |
| 6675860823 | physical geography | the study of physical features of the earth's surface | 36 | |
| 6675863440 | physical site charcteristics | climate, topography, soil, water sources, vegetation, elevation | 37 | |
| 6675863441 | prime meridian | The meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. | 38 | |
| 6675866268 | Ptolemy | Greek scholar who recalculated the circumference of earth to be 9,000 miles shorter which was incorrect | 39 | |
| 6675868483 | random pattern | a pattern with no specific order or logic behind its arrangement | 40 | |
| 6675868484 | regionalization | The organization of earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas | 41 | |
| 6675871219 | Robinson projection | Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each. Poles are highly distorted but quickly reform | 42 | |
| 6675873880 | Sauer, Carl | Geographer that argued that cultural landscapes should be the focus of geographic study | 43 | |
| 6675873881 | scale | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. | 44 | |
| 6675873882 | site | The physical character of a place. | 45 | |
| 6675875469 | situation | relative location of an object | 46 | |
| 6675875470 | solar time | time based on the position of the sun in the sky as the day progresses | 47 | |
| 6675875471 | space | The physical gap or interval between two objects. | 48 | |
| 6675877938 | space time compression | the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems | 49 | |
| 6675877939 | spatial organization | the location of places, people, and events, and the connections among places and landscapes | 50 | |
| 6675880076 | spatial perspective | way that things are arranged and organized on the surface of the earth | 51 | |
| 6675880077 | time zone | 24, 15 degree sections that each represent a different hour of the day | 52 | |
| 6675880078 | topography | Refers to the shape and elevation of land in a region. | 53 | |
| 6675882242 | toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 54 | |
| 6675884782 | US Census Bureau | a region of the government who counts the total population of an area | 55 |
