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| agricultural density | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| cartography | the science of making maps |
| connections | relationships among people and objects across the barriers of space |
| culture ecology | geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships |
| cultureal landscape | fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
| culture | the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition |
| formal region | an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |
| functional region | an area organized around a node or focal point |
| Geographic Information System | a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. |
| Global Positioning System | a system that determines the position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers |
| Greenwich mean time | the time in that time zone econompassing the prime meridean, or 0° longitude |
| International date line | the arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the international date line deading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calender moves ahead one day |
| lattitude | the numbering system used to indicate the lovation of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator |
| location | the position of anything on Earths surface |
| longitude | the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian(0°) |
| mental map | an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located |
| meridian | an arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles |
| parallel | a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians |
| place | a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character |
| polder | land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area |
| possibilism | the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but humans can in turn change the environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives |
| prime meridean | the meridian designated 95° longitude, which passes through the royal observation, at greenwich, england |
| projetcion | the system used to transfer locarions from Earth's surface to a flat map |
| region | an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features |
| relocation diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another |
| site | the physical character of a place |
| situation | the location of a place relative to other places |
| toponym | the name given to a portion of Earth's surface |
| vernacular region | an area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
| agricultural density | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| arithmetric density | the total number of people divided by the total land area |
| contagious diffusion | the rapid, wide spread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
| density | the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
| diffusion | the process of a feature or trend from one place to another overtime |
| distance decay | the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
| expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend among people from are to another in a snowballing process |
| hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate |
| hierarchial diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to others persons or places |
| pattern | the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area |
| physiological density | the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
| stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
| transnational corporation | a company that conducts research operates factories, and sells producs in many countries, not just where its headquartes or shareholders are located |
