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| 202037849 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something world wide is scope. | |
| 202037850 | Local diversity | Differences that are maintained around the world between places/ cultural groups no matter how much globalization spreads. One of the two factors that are pulling people in opposite dirrections. | |
| 202037851 | Map | A 2D or flat-scale model of Earth's surface or part of it. | |
| 202037852 | Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic. | |
| 202037853 | Scale | The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth has a whole. | |
| 202037854 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects. | |
| 202037855 | Connections | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. | |
| 202037856 | Cartography | science or art of making maps | |
| 202037857 | Map Scale | compares a distance on a map with a distance in the real world. Displayed in 3 ways a fraction/ ratio, a written statement, and/or a graphic bar scale. | |
| 202037858 | 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. | |
| 202037859 | Sections | Township squares are subdivided into these, each being one square mile, or 640 acres. Townships are divided into 36 of these. | |
| 202037860 | GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. The key to GIS is geocoding: the position of any object on Earth can be meausured and recorded with mathmatical precison and then stored in a computer. A map can be created by asking the computer to retrive a number of stored objects and combine them to form an image. | |
| 202037861 | Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | |
| 202037862 | GPS | 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. It is precise. | |
| 202037863 | Location | The position that something on Earth's surface occupies. | |
| 202037864 | Toponym | A name given to a place on Earth. It may be named after its founder or a famous community member etc. Example: Washington. The first president. | |
| 202037865 | Site | The physical character of a place. Examples: Climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude and elevation | |
| 202037866 | Situation | The location of a place relative to other places. | |
| 202037867 | Meridian | An arc drawn between the north and south poles. | |
| 202037868 | Parallel | An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator. | |
| 202037869 | Longitude | Distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole). | |
| 202037870 | Prime Meridian | Meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England) | |
| 202037871 | Latitude | The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. | |
| 202037872 | Greenwich Mean Time | The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude. | |
| 202037873 | International Date Line | When you cross the IDL which for the most part follows the 180 degree longitude you move the clock 24 hours/one day if you are going eastward; if you are going westward you move the clock back 24 hours/one day. | |
| 202037874 | Cultural Landscape | The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | |
| 202037875 | Regional Studies | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phemona in a particular area study (cultural landscape) | |
| 202037876 | Formal Region | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. | |
| 202037877 | Functional Region | A region organized around a node or focal point. Diminishes in importance outward | |
| 202037878 | Vernacular Region | An area that people believe to exsist as part of their cultural identity (perceptual region). |
