APHG Unit 1 Location Barrons & Rubenstein
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| show | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
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| show | The total number of people divided by the total land area.
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| Base line | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Concentration | show 🗑
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| show | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
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| Contagious diffusion | show 🗑
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| Cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| Cultural landscape | show 🗑
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| Culture | show 🗑
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| Density | show 🗑
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Distance decay | show 🗑
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | A 19th early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
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| show | (or uniform or homogeneous region) An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics.
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| Functional (or nodal) region | show 🗑
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| show | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.
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| show | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
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| show | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
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| Greenvich Mean Time | show 🗑
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| show | A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.
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| International Date Line | show 🗑
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| show | A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
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| Latitude | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| show | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian(0°).
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| show | A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
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| Mental map | show 🗑
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| Meridian | show 🗑
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| Parallel | show 🗑
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| show | Pattern
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| show | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
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| Place | show 🗑
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| Polder | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Principal meridian | show 🗑
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| Projection | show 🗑
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| show | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
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| show | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.
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| Resource | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| Section | show 🗑
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| Site | show 🗑
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| show | The location of a place relative to other places. Situation factors Location factors related to the transportation of materials into and from a factory.
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| show | The physical gap or interval between two objects.
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| Space-time compression | show 🗑
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| Stimulus diffusion | show 🗑
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| Toponym | show 🗑
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| Township | show 🗑
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| show | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.
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| Uneven development | show 🗑
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| Venacular region (or perceptual region) | show 🗑
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| Anthropogenic | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| show | Systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale.
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| show | The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa.
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| show | The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he was one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate com¬putation of the earth's circumference. He is also credited with coining the term "geography."
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| Fertile Crescent | show 🗑
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| Geographical Information Systems | show 🗑
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| Global Positioning System | show 🗑
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| show | Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place.
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| George Perkins Marsh | show 🗑
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| show | The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities.
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| Nomothetic | show 🗑
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| W. D. Pattison (think of Robert Pattinson, how his family has distinct traditions) | show 🗑
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| show | The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of the earth's surface.
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| Ptolemy | show 🗑
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| show | Data associated with a more humanistic approach to geog-raphy, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the inter¬pretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives.
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| show | Data associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial location and association.
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| Quantitative revolution | show 🗑
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| show | A territory that encompasses many places that share similar attributes (may be physical, cultural, or both) in comparison with the attributes of places elsewhere.
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| show | Regional geography
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| show | Observation and mathematical measurement of the earth's surface using aircraft and satellites. The sensors include both photographic images, thermal images, multispectral scanners, and radar images.
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| Carl Sauer (Geographer from University of California) | show 🗑
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| Sense of place | show 🗑
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| show | An intellectual framework that looks at the locations of specific phenomena, how and why that phenomena is , and, finally, how it is spatially related to phenomena in other place
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| Sustainability | show 🗑
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| Systematic geography | show 🗑
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| show | Individual maps of specific features that are of another in a Geographical Information System to understand spatial relationship.
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| Absolute distance | show 🗑
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| show | The exact position of an object or place, measured witl the spatial coordinates of a grid system.
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| show | The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place.
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| show | A map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface.
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| Breaking point | show 🗑
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| Cartograms | show 🗑
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| show | A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent data as average values per unit area.
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| Cognitive map | show 🗑
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| show | The actual or potential relationship between two p usually referring to economic interactions.
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| show | The degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places.
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| show | The spread of a disease, innovation, or cultural through direct contact with another-person or another place.
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| show | A standard grid, composed of lines of latitude and latitude, used to determine the absolute location of any object, place, or on the earth's surface.
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| Distance decay effect | show 🗑
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| show | Thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes and car accidents.
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| show | The spread of ideas, innovations, fashion, or other phenomena to surrounding areas through contact and exchange.
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| Friction of distance | show 🗑
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| show | A type of map projection that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses but completely rearranges direction such that the four cardinal directions-north, south, east, and west-no longer have any meanmg.
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| show | The actual shape of the earth, which is rough and oblate, or slightly squashed; the earth's circumference is longer around the equator then it is along the meridians, from north-south circumference.
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| Gravity model | show 🗑
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| show | Anything in the landscape, real or perceived, that is potentially threatening. Hazards are usually avoided in spatial behavior.
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| Hierarchical diffusion | show 🗑
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| International Date Line | show 🗑
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| Intervening opportunities (Definition too long, see Barrons for more) | show 🗑
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| Isoline | show 🗑
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| Large-scale | show 🗑
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| show | The angular distance north or south of the equator, defined by lines of latitude, or parallels.
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| show | Law that states that people will be drawn to larger cities to conduct their business because larger cities have a wider influence on the hinterlands that surround them.
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| show | On a map, a chart or graph that gives specific statistical information of a particular political unit or jurisdiction.
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| show | The angular distance east or west of the prime meridian, defined by lines of longitude, or meridians.
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| show | A mathematical method that involves transferring the earth's sphere onto a flat surface. This term can also be used to describe the type of map that results from the process of projecting. All map projections have dis¬tortions in either area, direction, d
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| Mercator projection | show 🗑
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| Meridian | show 🗑
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| Parallel | show 🗑
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| Preference map | show 🗑
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| Prime meridian | show 🗑
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| Proportional symbols map | show 🗑
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| show | A map type that shows reference information for a particula: place, making it useful for finding landmarks and for navigating.
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| Relative distance | show 🗑
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| Relative location | show 🗑
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| show | The diffusion of ideas, innovations, behaviors, from one place to another through migration.
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| show | A map's smallest discernable unit. If, for example, an object h to be one kilometer long in order to show up on a map, then that map's resolution is one kilometer.
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| Robinson projection | show 🗑
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| show | The ratio between the size of an area on a map and the actual size of that same area on the earth's surface.
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| Site | show 🗑
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| Situation | show 🗑
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| Small-scale | show 🗑
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| Spatial diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | A type of map that displays one or more variables-such as population, or income level-within a specific area.
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| Time-space convergence | show 🗑
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| show | Maps that use isolines to represent constant elevations. If you took a topographic map out into the field and walked exactly along the path of an isoline on your map, you would always stay at the same elevation.
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| Topological space | show 🗑
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| show | The costs involved in moving goods from one place to another.
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| show | Use of sophisticated software to create dynamic computer maps, some of which are three-dimensional or interactive.
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| show | No doubt Yes
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