7262644700 | Cartography | the drawing or practice of making maps | 0 | |
7262694259 | Geographic Information System | a system designed to capture and show geographic data. | 1 | |
7262861489 | Geographic Positioning System | A system of satellites, computers, and receivers, that calculate longitude and latitude. | 2 | |
7262920132 | Remote Sensing | The use of satellites or aircraft to gain information about the Earth. | 3 | |
7262936983 | Map Distortion | A map becomes distorted when you translate a 3D thing such as the world, into a 2D map. There are 6 types of distortion, area, shape, direction, bearing, distance, and scale. | 4 | |
7262953536 | Map Projection | Also known as Cartography, a method of taking a curved surface of the Earth, and displaying it on something flat. | 5 | |
7262998940 | Map Scale | A ratio comparing a measurement between 2 locations on a map. | 6 | |
7263011465 | Thematic Map | A map that highlights or specializes a certain part of the Earth, like mountain ranges, average amount of rainfall, etc.. | 7 | |
7263029424 | Statistical Map | A special map where the variation of a factor such as rainfall and population in a certain area is indicated. | 8 | |
7263036757 | Cartogram Map | A map that highlights population or national gross product, etc... | 9 | |
7263051933 | Dot Map | A map that uses dots to represent phenomenons | 10 | |
7263058408 | Choropleth Map | Uses color to represent a certain amount of population in that area. | 11 | |
7263063853 | Isoline Map | A line on a map that connects points of equal value. | 12 | |
7263067324 | Reference Map | It displays the boundaries and names of standard geographic areas and its features. | 13 | |
7263081373 | Mercator Map | A projection of a map on a cylinder so that parallels and the length of the equator have the same length. | 14 | |
7263101086 | Robinson Map | A map projection that shows the poles as lines and not points. | 15 | |
7263106712 | Goode-Homosoline Map | An all equal area map used for world maps. | 16 | |
7265020794 | Mental Map | How the person's perception and point of view and how they interact with that certain area. | 17 | |
7265031652 | Arithmetic Density | The number of people divided by the total land area. | 18 | |
7265036572 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of arable (plowable) land | 19 | |
7265043086 | Agricultural Density | The number of farmers per unit of arable land | 20 | |
7265049858 | Absolute Direction | A direction like a compass rose, NSEW | 21 | |
7265052802 | Relative Direction | A non specific direction such as left, right, up, and down. | 22 | |
7265059160 | Hearth Diffusion | The place from where an innovation comes from. | 23 | |
7265082672 | Relocation Diffusion | When people move from one place to another and bring new ideas with them. | 24 | |
7265092133 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a popular idea among people in a snowball affect. | 25 | |
7265096510 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of an idea that comes from a position of power to people of lower places of power. | 26 | |
7265106791 | Contagious Diffusion | A quick and rapid diffusion of ideas among the population of people. | 27 | |
7265106792 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of a non popular principle. | 28 | |
7266510154 | Dispersed/ Scattered | When objects in an area are far apart. | 29 | |
7266513352 | Dispersion | Spacing individuals within certain geographic boundaries. | 30 | |
7266522994 | Clustered/Agglomerated | When objects in an area are close together. | 31 | |
7266529493 | Absolute Distance | Distance that can be measured in standard units like miles. | 32 | |
7266539212 | Relative Distance | A measure of the social, economic, and economic relatedness or connectivity between two separate places. | 33 | |
7266557378 | Density Distribution | The distribution of certain products based on the population amount. | 34 | |
7271451493 | Concentration Distribution | The extent of a feature's spread of space and how it's arranged. | 35 | |
7271454863 | Pattern Distribution | The geometric arrangement of objects in space. | 36 | |
7271495058 | Spatial Relationships | Specifies how an object is located in space in relation to another object. | 37 | |
7271497334 | Enviornmental Determinism | When nature determines the culture of that land. | 38 | |
7271499189 | Built Landscape | A piece of land that is known for its land features,pattern of human occupation, and its use of its natural resources. | 39 | |
7271500423 | Sequent Occupance | When certain societies leave their impact on parts of the world that contribute to that landscape of that area. | 40 | |
7271501451 | Cultural Landscape | A combination of culture, languages, religion, and economic culture and climate. | 41 | |
7271502792 | Natural Landscape | The original landscape that was there before human affect. | 42 | |
7271502793 | Possiblism | The belief that the environment around you sets certain limitations. | 43 | |
7271504587 | Location | The position that something occupies on Earth's surface. | 44 | |
7271504588 | Place | A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic. | 45 | |
7271506214 | Human Enviornment Interaction | The interaction of humans and their social system and the rest of the ecosystem. | 46 | |
7271508455 | Movement | It is the act of people or things changing a physical location. | 47 | |
7271509998 | Regions | A region of the world that has certain characteristics but not set boundaries. | 48 | |
7271512693 | Location | A certain place or position. | 49 | |
7271512694 | Absolute Location | Longitude- north and south between the poles. Latitude-Parallel to the equator. | 50 | |
7271515401 | Relative Location | circumstances EX: Northern part of SC | 51 | |
7271515402 | Site Location | The physical character of a place. | 52 | |
7271518047 | Situation Location | The location of a place relative to other places. | 53 | |
7271519806 | Place Name Location | Human(Diversity, culture) or physical (types of roads, how the hills form with the hills, description of lakes(polluted, man made)) | 54 | |
7271521162 | Toponym Location | A name given to a place on Earth. | 55 | |
7271521163 | Geography | The study of Earth and all of the features on it. | 56 | |
7271523126 | Globalization | Worldwide integration and development all throughout the world. | 57 | |
7271525051 | Human Geography | The subject of geography that deals with the study of how human activity affects the world. | 58 | |
7271526900 | North and South Poles | The South Pole is the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge. The North Pole is the region of a magnet toward which the lines of induction diverge. | 59 | |
7271526901 | Latitude | Parallels are arcs drawn parallel to the equator and at right angles to meridians. Each is numbered, according to a system known as latitude. | 60 | |
7271528398 | Parallel | Side by side and having the same distance between them. | 61 | |
7271528399 | Equator | The latitude of 0, an imaginary line drawn to split the Earth in two. | 62 | |
7271530923 | Longitude | Meridians are arcs drawn between the North and South poles. Each is numbered, according to a system known as longitude. | 63 | |
7271530924 | Meridian | A circle of longitude that passes through a certain place on the Earth's surface and poles. | 64 | |
7271532718 | Prime Meridian | The Earth's 0 of longitude. | 65 | |
7271532719 | International Date Line | Where the time zones start. | 66 | |
7271536135 | Pattern | The arrangement of something in a certain area. | 67 | |
7271536136 | Linear Pattern | a pattern that is along straight lines, like rivers, streets, on railroad tracks. | 68 | |
7271538601 | Centralized Pattern | Locations are all together and concentrated in one location. | 69 | |
7271539930 | Random Pattern | a pattern that has no regular distortion that can be seen. | 70 | |
7271539931 | Region | An on Earth that is defined by one or more characteristics. | 71 | |
7271542166 | Formal/Uniform Region | A well established community, it is non changing. | 72 | |
7271544779 | Functional/Nodal Region | It holds a purpose in the community, it is there for a certain purpose. | 73 | |
7271546144 | Perceptual/Vernacular Region | It deals with feelings/actions. An example would be SC is labeled for drinking sweet tea and eating fried chicken. | 74 | |
7271548261 | Regionalism | The theory of regional rather than central systems or economic,cultural, or political affiliation. | 75 | |
7271548262 | Scale | relationship between the size of an object or distance between objects on a map and the actual object or distance on earth's surface. | 76 | |
7271550280 | Distance Decay Scale | A function that represents the way that some entity or its influence decays with distance from its geographical location | 77 | |
7271551924 | Friction of Distance Scale | Inhibiting effect of distance on human activity | 78 | |
7271553517 | Time-Space Compression Scale | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system. | 79 | |
7271553518 | Space | The physical gap between two objects. | 80 | |
7271556742 | Enviornmental Sustainability | A place in which the demands of the environment can be met without reducing its capacity to meet the living needs of the people. | 81 | |
7271558396 | Economic Sustainability | The ability of the economy to be able to support economic production. | 82 | |
7271560868 | Social Sustainability | the ability of a social system to function at a defined level of social well being. | 83 |
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