| A | B |
|---|
| vernacular region | perceptual region |
| uneven development | increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of economic globalization |
| space-time compression | reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place , as a result of improved communications and transport systems |
| situation | relative location |
| site | physical character of place |
| geography | the study of the earth and the ways people live and work on it |
| possibilism | human/environment interaction |
| globalization | process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope |
| hearth | region from which innovative ideas originate |
| hierarchical diffusion | spread of a feature from one key power to other persons or places |
| pattern | regular arrangement of something in a study area |
| physiological density | number of people per area of arable land |
| polder | land created by Dutch by draining water from an area |
| agricultural density | ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
| arithmethic density | total amount of people divided by the total land area |
| concentration | spread of something over a given area |
| contagious diffusion | rapid spread of a feature or trend throughout a given population |
| cultural ecology | geographic approach emphasizes human-environment relations |
| functional region | area organized around a focal point |
| formal region | area in which everyone shares in one or more characteristics |
| cartography | the science of making maps |
| culture | the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people performing the act |
| diffusion | the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another |
| distance decay | the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin |
| hierarchical diffusion | the spread of a feature from one key node of authority to other persons or places |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | divided country into townships and ranges |
| functional region | market area of a supermarket |
| density | frequency of something within a given unit of area |
| concentration | spread of something over a given area |
| expansion diffusion | contagious, hierarchical, stimulus |
| uneven development | increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of economic globalization |
| remote sensing | acquisition of data about Earth's surface from an orbiting satelllite, used for environmental reasons |
| location | toponym, site, situation, mathematical location |
| environmental determinism | superior Western European cultures dominated other areas |
| environmental determinism | derogatory racial and cultural undertones |
| environmental determinism | hot, muggy weather causes less industrous South Americans |
| environmental determinism | associated with totalitarian regimes |
| environmental determinism | intellectually limiting |
| human geography | where and why human activities are located where they are |
| climate regions | tropical, dry, warm and cold mid-latitude, polar |
| biomes | forest, savanna, grassland, desert |
| transnational corparation | conducts research, operates factories, sells products in many different countries |
| five geographic concepts | place, region, space, scale, connection |
| Mercator projection | used for mapmaking |
| GPS | developed for Defense Department |
