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Vocabulary Chap. 1.3
chapter 1.3 vocab
|Location based on latitude and longitude coordinates.
|Aristotle and Plato
|Greek philosophers who believed the earth was round.
|Maps that assign space by the size of some datum.
|Map makers; they are very concerned with the problem of distortion.
|The density of particular phenomena over an area.
|Describes how often an object occurs within a given area or space; most often used in terms of population density.
|Describes the spread or movement of a principle or idea.
|The terms comes from the idea that everything on the Earths surface must have a physical location.
|An important development in the field of geography in the early 20th century that stated that human behaviors are a direct result of their environment.
|Regions where anything and everything inside has the same characteristics or phenomena.
|Regions that can be defined around a certain point or node; functional regions are the most intense around the center but lose their characteristics as the distance from the focal point increases.
|A way for geographers to obtain new information.
|Global positioning system. Where you are at that point. In cars, for example.
|The description of the Earths surface and the people and process that shape those landscape.
|The notion that a phenomenon spreads as a result of the social elite, like a politician, famous person, entertainment leaders, spreading societal ideas or trends.
|Parallel lines that run east to west on the surface of the earth.
|Parallel lines that run north to west on the surface of the earth.
|Describing how objects are organized in space, patterns can be anything; triangular, linear, or even 3 dimensional.
|An approach to geography favored by modern geographers that suggest that humans are not a product of their environment, but possess skills to change the environment to fit human needs.
|Wrote "the guide to geography", an 8 volume guide.
|A concept used to link different places together based on any parameter the geographer chooses.
|A location that is based on, or refers to, another feature on the earths surface.
|The relationship between the size of a map and the the actual size of something on the earth.
|Spatial Interaction (movement)
|Concerned with how linked a place is to the outside world, this theme of geography deals mainly with area.
|Used to determine some types of geographic phenomenon, thematic maps can be represented in various ways; chloropleth maps, dot maps, isoline maps.
|A region that exists primarily in the individuals perception or feelings. (e.g., the concept of the "South")
|Determined by dividing the population of a country by the total land area.
|The lessening of a phenomenon as the distance from the hearth increases.
|1750 in England. When Europeans developed new technologies, spurring a more mechanized system of farming and eventually moving them to stage 3 of the industrial economy.