Geographic apporach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
Environmental Determinism
A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.
Cultural Landscape
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
Pattern
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
Global Positioning System
GPS - a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
Polder
Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
Culture
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition.
Arithmetic Density
The total number of people divided by the total land area.
Space-Time Compression
The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distance place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.
