| A | B |
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| Site | refers to the specific location at the end of a |
| Situation | an expression of relative location |
| Place | a particular space with physical and human meaning |
| Regions | or areas with similar characteristics |
| Formal region | defined by a common characteristic |
| Perceptual region | defined by popular feelings and images rather than by objective data |
| Ecosystem | a community of plants and animals that depend upon one another |
| Movement | the act or process of changing place or position |
| Human-environment interaction | or the study of the interrelationship between people and their physical environment |
| Cartography | the science of mapmaking |
| Geographic information systems (GIS) | are computer tools that process and organize data and satellite images with other types of information gathered by geographers and other scientists |
