Vocab 1
The number of people per unit area
What is Population Density?
The immediate state of the weather
What is weather?
Map Making
What is cartography?
Pertaining to space on the Earth's surface.
What is Spatial Perspective?
Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization.
What is scale?
The long term conditions of aggregate weather over a region
What is Climate?
The center, heart or focus of a state constituted by the national heartland, population cluster etc.
What is the Core area?
The positions expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude
What is Absolute Location?
The position of something compared to something else
What is relative location?
The basic spatial unit in our world regionalization scheme.
What is a Geographic Realm?
The surrounding area served by an urban center
What is Hinterland?
A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and most of the international community
What is a State?
The total money earned from all good and services produced by the citizens of a country during a calendar year.
What is Gross National Income?
A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena
What is a Formal Region?
A region marked less by its sameness than its dynamic internal structure
What is a Functional Region?
Any group of objects or institutions and their mutual interactions
What are Spatial Systems?
The composite of human imprints on the surface of the Earth
The proportion of a country's population living in cities and towns
The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing international cultural, economic and political changes
What is Globalization?
Geologic period of time in which scientists start at 2 million years (non Catholic), marked by glaciations
What is The Pleistocene epoch?
The criteria for identifying a realm
What are cultural, economic, historical, political and environmental features?
Criteria for regions
What are area, boundaries, location, homogeneity, and regions as systems?
The economic, social and institutional growth of a national state
What is Development?
Topical geography's other name; cultural political economic geography and the like
What is Systematic geography?
A state consisting of legally defined territory, inhabited by a population governed from a capital city by a representative government
What is the European state model?