A place's internal physical and cultural characteristics, such as terrain and religion.
What is Site?
100
A specific point or position on the global grid.
What is absolute location?
100
Originating point.
What is a node?
100
Uses satellites to determine exact locations on the global grid.
What is Global Positioning System?
100
A computer program that stores geographic data and produces maps to show these data.
What is Geographic Information System?
200
Concerned with analyzing the structures, processes, and locations of the earth's human creations and their interactions.
What is Human Geography?
200
Measured in degrees north and south from the equator.
What is lines of latitude?
200
AKA vernacular region. Boundaries of a region determined by people's beliefs.
What is perceptual region?
200
A model that describes how economic, political, and/or cultural power is spatially distributed between dominant core regions, and more marginal or dependent semi-peripheral and peripheral regions.
What is Core Periphery Model?
200
Slight distortion of all four properties. The maps of the world in my room.
What is Robinson projection?
300
Concerned with spatial analysis of the structures, processes, and locations of the earth's natural phenomena, like soil, climate, plants, and topography.
What is Physical Geography?
300
Measured in degrees east and west of the prime meridian.
What is lines of longitude?
300
AKA Nodal region. Group of places linked together by some function's influence on them.
What is functional region?
300
The degree to which distance interferes with some interaction.
What is Friction of Distance?
300
Uses symbols to display the frequency of a variable.
What is Proportional-Symbol Thematic Map?
400
Explains and predicts spatial patterns in the earth's human and physical landscapes.
What is Geographic Models?
400
Something's location as described in relation to places around it.
What is Relative Location?
400
AKA uniform regions. Areas that have common cultural characteristics.
What is Formal regions?
400
The increasing sense of accessibility and connectivity that seems to bring humans in distant places closer together.
What is Space-Time Compression?
400
Shows the shapes of the continents and landforms accurately, but drastically distorts size (area) of continents. Ex: Greenland=huge
What is Mercator projection?
500
How places interact through movement.
What is Spatial Interaction?
500
Refers to the location of a place relative to the physical and cultural characteristics around it.
What is situation?
500
A unique combination of physical and cultural attributes that give each location on the earth it's individual stamp.
What is a place?
500
The interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.
What is distance decay?
500
Display lines that connect points of equal value, as in showing elevation levels.