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| Human Geography | a political/cultural branch of geography concerned with the social science aspects of how the world is physically arranged |
| Physical Geography | the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, as landforms, drainage features, climates, soils, and vegetation |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface. |
| Density | the number of inhabitants, dwellings, or the like, per unit area |
| Concentration | the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated. |
| Pattern | A common property of distribution, which is the geometric arrangement of objects in space. Some features are organized in a geometric pattern, whereas others are distributed irregularly. Geographers observe that many objects form a linear distribution, such as the arrangement of houses along a street or stations along a subway line. |
| Site | The physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant (For more on Site & Situation |
| Situation | The location of a place relative to other places |
| Absolute Location | Position on Earth’s surface using the coordinate system of longitude (that runs from North to South Pole) and latitude (that runs parallel to the equator). |
| Relative location | Position on Earth’s surface relative to other features |
| Cultural Ecology | The geographic study of human environmental relationships |
| Environmental Determinism | A 19th- and early 20th-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study o f how the physical environment caused human activities |
| Possiblism | The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment. |
| Scale (map scale) | Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance, indicated on a map as a bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement. |
| Globalization | idea that the world is becoming integrated on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete |
