Human geo unit 1
Terms
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Longitude
Parallels - Numbering system indicates location E-W
- Physological Density
- NUMBER OF PEOPLE per unit of area of farmland
- Possibilism
- physical environment sets limits on human actions, but people can adjust to physical environment
- Relocation Diffusion
- Spread of feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
- Situation
- The location of a place RELATIVE to other places
- Space-Time Compression
- The reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication & transport
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Expansion Diffusion
-Contagious
-Hierachial
-Stimulus -
spread of feature in snowballing process
-Rapid & widespread
-persons of power to others
-underlying principle - Uneven Distribution
- increased gap in economical conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
- Agricultural Density
- NUMBER OF FARMERS per unit area of farmland
- Culture
- what people care about
- Distribution
- arrangement of feature in space
- Functional Region
- area organized around a node or focal point
- Hearth
- place from whch an innovation originates
- International Date Line
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Arc that goes along 180 longitude
cross E = back 24
cross W = forward 24 -
Latitude
Meridian - Measures N-S
- Vernacular Region
- area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity
- Arithmetic Density
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TOTAL # OF PEOPLE
-DIVIDED BY-
TOTAL LAND AREA - Concentration
- spread of something over a given area
- Cultural Ecology
- geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
- Density
- frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
- Distance Decay
- diminishing importance with increased distance
- Environmental Determinism
- physical environment determines human activities
- Formal Region
- area in which everyone shares in on or more characteristics
- GIS
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graphic info systems
stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data - Greenwhich Mean Time
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encompasses prime meridian
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