Barron's Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| show | anthropogenic
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| show | cartography
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| show | cultural ecology
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| show | cultural landscape
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| systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth;s physical systems and processes on a global scale | show 🗑
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| the intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa | show 🗑
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| the head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he was one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the earth's circumference. He is also credited with coining the term "geography." | show 🗑
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| name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C. | show 🗑
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| a set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data. | show 🗑
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| a set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device. | show 🗑
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| pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place. | show 🗑
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| show | George Perkins Marsh
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| the physical landscape or environment that has not been impacted by human actions | show 🗑
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| show | nomothetic
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| show | W.D. Pattison
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| the realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of earth's surface | show 🗑
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| roman geographer-astronamerand author of Guide to Geography which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude | show 🗑
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| data associated with a more humanistic approach to geography, often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives. | show 🗑
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| show | quantitative data
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| show | quantitative revolution
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| a territory that encompasses many places that share similar attributes (may be physical, cultural, or both) in comparison with the attributes of places elsewhere. | show 🗑
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| show | regional geography
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| observation and mathematical measurement of earth's surface using aircraft satellites. The sensors include both photographic images, thermal images, multispectral scanners, and radar images. | show 🗑
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| show | Carl Sauer
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| feelings evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place. | show 🗑
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| an intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of specigic phenomena, how and why that phenomena is where it is, and, finally, how it is spatially related to phenomena in other places | show 🗑
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| the concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations | show 🗑
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| the study of the earth's integrated systems as a whole, instead of focusing on particular phenomena in a single place | show 🗑
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| individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a geographical information system to understand and analyze a spatial relationship. | show 🗑
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| show | vernacular regions
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