The study of physical features like landforms, plants, animals, soil, and climate
Physical Geography
Where people live?
Population Distribution
The visible objects and technologies that a culture creates
Artifacts
A country, which is a political unit(formal region)
State
An areas land features
Topography
The relationships between living things and nonliving things and their environment.
Land that can be used to grow crops
Arable land
Material objects and cultural practices shared by a group
Cultural traits
Ethnic group(people only). Nations can exist without states
Nation
An area that has similar climate patterns based on its latitude and location on a content
Climate Regions
The way modern technology has allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances quicker and easier.
Time-Space Compression
The long-term patterns of weather in a particular area
Climate
The shared behaviors that guide the behavior of a group of people
Culture norms
A state made up almost of only one ethnic group or nation
Nation state
Agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for others to purchase
Commercial Agriculture
The exact location of a place using longitude and latitude.
Absolute location
The total number of people per unit of arable land
Physiological Density
Original behaviors, beliefs, and practices passed down to generations.
Traditional culture
Attempts by a state to gain territories in neighboring states inhibited by people of the same nation
Irredentism
The relationships between land value, commercial location, and transportation using a slope to determine land cost
Bid-rent theory
What is the geographic scale?
Regional
Population density or distribution?
Population Density
Popular Culture
To place physical objects such as stones, pillars, walls, or fences to indicate where a boundary is
Demarcated
The central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city because the location attracts them
Central Business District