All APHG Terms
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| Demography | The scientific study study of population characteristics
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| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
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| Over Population | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
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| Scale | The relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole
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| Region | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends of features
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| Ecumene | The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement
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| Arithmetic Density | Is the total number of people divided by total land area
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| Arable Land | Land suited for for agriculture
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| Physiological Density | In a region, the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land
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| Agriculture Density | Is the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land
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| Place | A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character
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| Space | A physical gap or interval between two objects
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| Connections | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
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| Cartography | The science of map making
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| Projection | A system used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the US into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers
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| Township | A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the US into a series of townships
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| Principals Meridians | A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US
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| Base Lines | An east-west line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US
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| Sections | A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the US into 36 sections
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyses, and displays geographical data
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| Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the plant or other long-distance methods
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a sears of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers
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| Toponym | IS the name given to a place on earth
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| Situation | Is the location of a place relative to other places
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| Meridian | Is an arc drawn between the North and South poles
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| Parallel | Is a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians
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| Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | The international agreement designated the time at the prime meridian
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| Prime Meridian |
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| International Date Line |
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| Cultural Landscape |
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| Regional Studies |
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| Formal Region |
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| Functional Region | Is an area organized around a node or focal point
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| Vernacular Region | Is a place that people believe exists as past of this cultural identity
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| Mental Map |
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| Culture |
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| Cultural Ecology |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| Possibilism |
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| Polder | Is a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area
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| Transnational Corporation |
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| Distribution | The arrangement of a feature in space
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| Density | The frequency with which something occurs in space
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| Arithmetic Density | Is the total number of objects in an area
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| Physiological Density | Is the number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture
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| Agricultural Density | The number of farmers per unit of area of farmland
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| Concentration | The extent of a features spread over space
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| Space-Time-Compression |
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| Distance Decay |
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| Diffusion | Is the process
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