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absolute direction
decision making
business, government, personal, e.g., where to build things
feild observation
physically visiting a location for analysis
geographic information systems
software that layers geographic information
map projection
always distort
absolute distance
measurable distance
dispersal
spread out
flows
movement of people, things and information between places
global scale
the world scale
media reports
news reports used to gather data
absolute location
the exact physical location; longitude and latitude
distance decay
decreasing intensity with distance from the hearth
formal region
has definable boundaries; mountains, vegetation, political boundaries
global positioning system
4 satellites determine absolute location
national scale
country scale
census data
every ten years, used for decision making
evelvation
height above sea level
functional region
around a service node
land use patterns
how humans use land (duh), residential, industrial, agricultural etc
natural reasources
things from the environment humans use
clustering
goruping together
envionmental determinism
environment determines the culture
geospatial technologies
gather geographic data
local scale
large scale very "zoomed in”, e.g., city, neighborhood
spatial pattern
arrangement of things on the earth’s surface