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| Arithemitic density |
The number of people per unit area of land. |
| Physiological density |
The number of persons per unit area of cultivable land.
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| Enivironmental determinism |
The school of thought based on the belief that cultures are, directly or indirectly, shaped by the physical environment, that cultures are molded by physical surroundings./ |
| Linear pattern |
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| Centralized pattern |
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| Random pattern |
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| Possibilism |
The school of thought based on the belief that humans, rather than the physical environment, are the primary active fore; that any environment offers a number of different possible ways for a culture to develop; and that the choices among these possibilit |
| Scale |
Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. |
| Formal/unifom region |
A region distinguished by uniformity of one or more characteristics that can serve as the basis for areal generalization and of contrast with adjacent areas. |
| Functional/nodal region |
/A region differentiated by what occurs within it rather than by a homogeneity of physical or cultural phenomena; an earth area recognized as an operational unit based upon defined organizational criteria. The concept of unit is based on interaction and |
| Perceptual/venacular region |
/A region perceived to exist by its inhabitants or the general populace. Also known as a vernacular region or popular region, it has reality as an element of popular culture or folk culture represented in the mental maps of average people. |
| Spatial |
Of or pertaining to space on the earth's surface. Often a synonym for geographical and used as an adjective to describe specific geographic concepts or processes, as spatial interaction or diffusion. |
| Accesibility |
The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from other locations; the relative opportunity for spatial interaction. May be measured in geometric, social, or economic terms. |
| Connectivity |
The directness of routes linking pairs of places; an indication of the degree of internal connection in a transport network. More generally, all of the tangible and intangible means of connection and communication between places. |
| Network |
The areal pattern of sets of places and the routes (links) connecting them along which movement can take place.
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| Distance decay |
The declining intensity of any activity, process, or function with increasing distance from its point of origin. |
| Friction of distance |
A measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction. Generally, the greater the distance, the greater the "friction" and the less the interaction or exchange, or the greater the cost of achieving the exchange.
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| Time-Space compression |
A term associated with work of David Harvey that regers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-sapce convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity. |
| GIS |
A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user. |
| GPS |
Satelite based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. |
| Thematic maps |
A map depicting a specific spatial spatial distribution or statistical variation of abstract objects (e.g., unemployment) in space. |
| Statistical |
of, pertaining to, consisting of, or based on statistics. |
| Cartogram maps |
A map that has been simplified to present a single idea in a diagrammatic way; the base is not normally true to scale. |
| Dot maps |
Maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon, such as population |
| Choropleth maps |
A thematic map presenting spatial data as average values per unit area. |
| Isoline maps |
geographical map, landforms etc. |
| Mental maps |
The map-like image of the world, country, region, city, or neighborhood a person carries in mind. The representation is therefore subjective; it includes a knowledge of actual locations and spatial relationships and is colored by personal perceptions and |
| Remote Sensing |
the science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance, as with radar or infrared photography, to observe the earth or a heavenly body. |
| Dispersed/scattered concentrations |
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| Clustered/agglomerated dispersion |
The houses here are compact having narrow, winding streets separating the two rows of houses. Sometimes such settlements have a definite layout plan which may be linear rectangular, L-shaped or shapeless. |
| Spatial |
Of or pertaining to space on the earth's surface. Often a synonym for geographical and used as an adjective to describe specific geographic concepts or processes, as spatial interaction or diffusion. |
| Distortion |
an aberration of a lens or system of lenses in which the magnification of the object varies with the lateral distance from the axis of the lens. |
