All terms you will need to know
Will sort into chapters at later date.
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| 30516634 | George Perkins Marsh | Provided first account of how humans impact earth "Man VS. Nature" | |
| 30516635 | Idiographic | unique facts or characteristics of a place | |
| 30516636 | Global Postitioning System | Satallites that help to determine a location on earths surface. | |
| 30516637 | Geographical Information System | Computer tools used to capture, analyze, transform geographic data | |
| 30516638 | Fertile Crescent | Crescent shaped area of fertile land stretching from lower nile valley, along between east Mediteranian coast and into Syria & present day Iraq | |
| 30516639 | Eratosthenes | First to guess circumferance of earth. Known for coining term Geography | |
| 30516640 | Enviromental Geography | Interaction between human and physical geography, explores impacts humans have on enviroment and vise versa | |
| 30516641 | Earth System Science | Approach to physical geography, looks at interaction between physical sytems and processes on a global scale. | |
| 30516642 | Cultural landscape | Human modified landscape containing imprint of culture or society | |
| 30516643 | Cultural Ecolgy | Study of interactions between societies and the natrual enviroments they live in | |
| 30516644 | Cartography | the making or study of maps or charts | |
| 30516645 | Anthropogenic | Human-induced changes on the natural environment | |
| 30517699 | Region | A grouping of similiar places. | |
| 30518098 | Cultural Diffusion | How things (Ideas, technology) spread and why | |
| 30518099 | Expansion Defusion | A defusion with a snow balling effect- gets bigger as more people know | |
| 30518100 | Hierarchical Diffusion | A type of diffusion that goes from one important person to the next. | |
| 30518101 | Stimulus Diffusion | A defusion where a specific idea is rejected but the underlying idea is accepted | |
| 30518102 | Absorbing Barriers | Completely stops diffusion | |
| 30518103 | Permeable Barrier | As things become more common rules change | |
| 30518104 | Neighborhood Effect | Idea is accepted in small clusters from the originator | |
| 30518105 | Non Diffusion | Failure to spread | |
| 31214811 | Formal Regions | One or more different places that make it different from surrounding areas | |
| 31214812 | Functional Region | Diffferent places that function as a unit. | |
| 31214813 | Spatial Percpective | Patterns, where things are located and how they are arranged | |
| 31214814 | Landscape | Material character of a place | |
| 31214815 | Dr. Peirce Lewis | Came up with the idea that cultural landscape is our unwritten biography. | |
| 31214816 | Sequent occupance | leaving behind layers of imprints on the landscape of different groups of humans over time | |
| 31214817 | ecology | A science that studies complex relationship among the physical and living environment. | |
| 31214818 | Ecosystem | territoraly bounded system consisting of inorganic and organic components |
