Human Geography Chapter 1 Flashcards

914153118	concentration	The spread of something over a given area. This map shows the concentration of people in the United States.	0
914153119	connection	Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space, for example, roads connect different communities.	1
914153120	contagious diffusion	a type of expansion diffusion; the rapid widespread diffusion of feature or trend throughout a population	2
914153122	density	The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. This neighborhood in India is densely populated.	3
914153123	diffusion	The process or spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time, for example, McDonald's and other fast food chains have spread all over the world, changing people's eating habits.	4
914153124	distance decay	the diminishing importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin (or hearth)	5
914153125	distribution	the arrangement of something across the earth's surface	6
914153126	environmental determinism	Studying geography to see how the physical environment caused human activities.	7
914153127	expansion diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process	8
914153128	formal region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristic.	9
914153129	functional region	an area organized around a node or focal point (it has a center)	10
914153130	geographic grid	a system of imaginary arcs or lines drawn in a grid pattern on the Earth's surface	11
914153131	Geographic Information Science GIScience	the development and analysis of data about the earth acquired through satellite and other resources	12
914153132	Geographic information system (GIS)	A computer system that stores, organizes, and displays geographic data	13
914153133	Globalization	Actions or processes that involve the whole world and result in making something worldwide in scope	14
914153134	Global Positioning System (GPS)	A system that determines the precise position of something through a series of satellites, tracking stations and receivers.	15
914153135	Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas orignate	16
914153136	Hierarchical diffusion	A type of expansion diffusion, the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or authority or power to other persons orplaces	17
914153137	latitude	lines or circles drawn around the globe, the lines run in an E-W directions and they are either North or South of the Equator	18
914153138	location	the position of anything on the Earth's surface	19
914153139	longitude	lines also called meridians that run N to S on the globe, the lines are located E or W of the Prime Meridian	20
914153140	pattern	the regular arrangement of something in an area	21
914153141	place	a specific point on the Earth's surface distinguished by certain characteristics	22
914153142	possiblism	the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives	23
914153143	region	an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of physical and cultural characteristics	24
914153144	relocation diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend through the movement of people from one place to another	25
914153145	remote sensing	the acquisition of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distance method	26
914153146	scale	the relationship between the portion of the earth being studied and the earth as a whole	27
914153147	site	the physical characteristics of a place	28
914153148	situation	the location of a place relative to other places	29
914153149	space	the physical gap between two objects	30
914153150	space-time compression	the reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems	31
914153151	stimulus diffusion	a type of expansion diffusion, the spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected	32
914153152	toponym	the name given to a portion of the earth's surface (place name)	33
914153153	vernacular region/perceptual	an area that people believe exists as part of a cultural identity	34
1668196169	human geography	the area of geography that studies how human activity affects or influenced by the earth' surface	35
1668196170	absolute location	...the location of something using a coordinate system (ex. Mpls location is 44°58′47″ N, 93°15′49″ W )	36
1668196171	relative location	...the location of something using landmarks	37
1668200849	Meridian/Prime Meridian	...0° longitude	38
1668208442	cultural landscape	fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group	39
1668216485	map projection	...transferring locations on the Earth's surface to a flat map	40
1668216486	map scale	...the relationship between the size of an object and the actual size of a feature on the Earth's surface	41
1668216487	map distortion	...When information from the round surface of the earth is transferred to a flat surface, sometimes that information is incorrect or distorted by shape, distance size or direction. This map shows Antarctica distorted by size and shape.	42