Key Intro Terms
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| Spatial Perspective | Geography’s consideration that spatial patterns are crucial to how we live and organize our societies
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| Scale | map or analytical representation
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| Geographic realm | global neighborhoods with combinations of environmental, cultural, and organizational properties
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| Transition zone | where two geographic realms meet are not sharp boundaries
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| Absolute location | area’s extent defined by the geographic grid.
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| Formal region | areas with a measurable or visible internal homogeneity
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| Functional region | a structured, urban-centered system of interaction
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| Hinterland | core, as center of activity with a surrounding zone of interaction
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| Global climate change | includes natural and anthropogenic-accelerated changes associated with warming or cooling
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| Population distribution | map with dots to represent ~100,000 people.
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| Urbanization | the proportion of total population residing in towns and cities (today 55%)
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| Cultural landscape | distinctive attributes of a society imprinted on its portion of the world’s physical stage
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| Natural landscape | array of landforms constituting Earth’s surface, including the physical features that mark them
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| Continental drift | theory that landmasses were once pieces of a supercontinent, Pangaea, that broke up
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| State | geographic term for political entities; also known as countries
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| Sovereignty | notion that the government of a state rules supreme within its borders
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| European state model | assumed a political entity (state) would territorially match a cultural entity (nation) as a nation-state
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| Core area | coastal provinces
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| Periphery | interior and western regions
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| Globalization | a geographic process in which economic, cultural, and political relations shift to ever-broader scales
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| Relative location | referenced against other regions.
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