Chapter 1 Vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Geography | The study of people, places, spaces, and the environment. |
| Human Geography | One of the two divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human ideas and impact including culture,s, activities, and landscapes. |
| Globilization | Process heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across the country borders. |
| Fieldwork | The observations that researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes by comparing and contrasting them. |
| Patterns | Descriptions of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon. |
| Physical Geography | One division of geography; the spatial analysis of physical landscape (patterns), such as a riverbank or the crest of a mountain ridge. |
| Spatial perspective | Looking at where, why, and how things occur and how places are connected. |
| Geographic concepts | Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world from a spatial perspective. |
| Location | Position on earth using both absolute and relative location (one of the five categories of geography) |
| Absolute location | Precise location of a place, usually using latitude and longitude to do so. |
| Relative loction | The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute. |
| Location theory | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why the places are chosen with production and/or consumption in mind. |
| Human-environment interactions | The relationship between humans and the environment (one of the five themes of geography) and the causes that humans make. |
| Hearth | Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates. |
| Possibilism | Theory in geography that humans, not the environment, shape culture. |
| Carrying capacity | The idea that land can hold a certain amount of life (ie. humans and plants) |
| Cultural ecology | Study of the historical interactions of humans and the environment in one place; studying the ways humans adapted to a place |
| Political ecology | An approach to studying human-environment interactions in the way of political, economic, and historical conditions operating multiple scales. |
| Region | Area of earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perception thing in common that makes it different from others. (one of the five themes of geography) |
| Formal region | Area of land with common cultural or physical traits. |
| Cultural traits | A learned belief, normality, or value passed down through generations in a culture. |
| Functional region | Area of land defined as sharing a common purpose in society. |
| Nodes | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow throughout the network. |
| Perceptual/ Vernacular region | Area of land that a person sees as being similar/ (Vernacular: a language used in interactions in a culture) |
| Place | Uniqueness of a location (One of the five themes of Geography) |
| Sense of Place | Including a place with meaning from the experiences in that location. |
| Perception of Place | How a place is envisioned/ seen as. |
| Movement | Mobility of humans, goods, and services across Earth (one of the five themes of geography) |
| Diffusion | spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places. |
| Spatial Interaction | The amount of connectedness or contact of people and places |
| Distance | The amount of space between one point and another. |
| Accesibility | The amount of ease and flow between two places. |
| Connectivity | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network. |
| Expansion diffusion | The spread of an idea from its hearth across the world without people needing to move. |
| Contagious diffuson | Spread of an idea from one person or place to another based on proximity. |
| Hierarchal diffusion | Spread of an idea from one person or place to another based on a hierarchy. |
| Stimulus diffusion | A process of diffusion where to cultural traits come together to make a unique trait, |
| Relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea from people moving and taking the idea with them. |
| Cultural landscape | The visual human impact on the landscape. |
| Sequent occupance | Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of societies. |
| Scale | Geographical scope in where we understand and research phenomenons on a local national or global level. |
| Rescale | Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers at another scale. |
| Context | The physical and human geographies crating the place, environment, and space where event occur. |
| Cartography | The art and science of map making. |
| Reference maps | Maps showing absolute location of places and geographical features. |
| Thematic maps | A map that tells a story, usually show the degree of one characteristic or the movement of a geographic idea using symbols. |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | Satellite based system that determines absolute location of places or geographic features. |
| Mental maps | Maps of an area made of an area made from memory or experience by a human or a group |
| Activity spaces | Places within the rounds of daily activity. |
| Terra incognita | Areas on maps that are not well detailed because they are off limits or they are unknowns. |
| Remote sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of technology/ tools that are far away from the area of study. |
| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | A system of computer hardware and software designed to show, analyze,and represent geographic data. |
| Culture | Group belief systems, normalities, or values practiced by people. |
| Culture Complex | A group of interrelated culture traits. such as dress coeds and cooking utensils. |
| Pandemic | An outbreak of disease that spreads worldwide. |
| Epidemic | A rapid amount of disease among people in a particular location or region at a point in time. |
| Spatial distribution | Physical locations of geographic phenomena, usually shown on a map. |
| environmental determinism | Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth. |
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