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Section 1
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Human Geography
The study of how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localtiy, region, and world.
Cultural Landscape
The visible imprint of human activity ona landscape.
Time-distance Decay
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source.
Functional Region
Defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.
Landscape
Material character of a place, complex of natural featues, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place its form.
Perceptions of Places
Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures.
Remote Sensing
A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study.
Distances
Measurement of the physical space between two places.
Cultural Barriers
Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certian innovations; ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture.
Pattern
The design of spatial distribution.
Cultural Complex
A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.
Spatial Interaction
Depends on the distances between places. Both Complementarity and Intervening Opportunity.
Spatial Distribution
Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.
Accessibility
The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certian location from other locations.
Region
An area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.
Generalized Map
A vague map of an area without specific details.
Physical Geography
The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth's natural phenomena.
Sense of Place
State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certian character.
Absolute Locations
The position of place of a certian item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, and longitude.
Spatial
How something is laid out; space on Earth's surface.
Geocaching
A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers.
Independent Invention
The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other.
Pandemics
A worldwide outbreak of disease.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user.
Cultural Trait
A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban.
Sequent Occupance
Cultural succession and its lasting imprint.
Medical Geography
The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective; looking at sources, diffusion routes, and distribution of disease.
Culture
The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
Place
Uniqueness of a location.
Connectivity
The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network.
Mental Maps
Maps in our minds of places we have been and places we have only heard of.
Fieldwork
A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reacctions vary.
Human-environment
Reciprocal relationship between humans and environment.
Reference Maps
Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude.
Thematic Maps
Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon.
Globalization
A set of processes that are increasing interactions, interpendence without regard to country borders.
Formal Region
A uniform region.
Cartography
The art and science of making maps.
Relative Location
The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.
Location
The geographical situation of people and things.
Epidemic
Regional outbreak of disease.
Activity Space
The space within which daily activity occurs.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geograpic features.
Perceptual Region
A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity.
Location Theory
A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of the economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.
Movement
The mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet.
Spatial Perspective
Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space.
Cultural Hearth
Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.
Cultural Diffusion
The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area.
Five THemes (of geography)
Location, human-environment, region, place, and movement.
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