what is the word
the science of making measurements of the earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites.
remote sensing
cultural landscape
the visible changes that humans make to the environment including building crops and signs.
arrangements of a phenomenon across the earths surface, has three properties
spatial distribution
cultural ecology
geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
the science and at of drawing maps
cartography
describing the postion of a place as compared to another landmark
relative location
scale of analysis
how zoomed in or out you are when looking at geographic data.
describing where something is using the exact site on an objective coordinate system.
absolute location
vernacular/perceptual region
an area that shares a common qualitative characteristic its only a region because believe it is.
the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and there by change those place
fieldwork
the idea that the world feels smaller than it used to because of increased technology in transportation and communication
space-time compression
spatial
a fancy word for describing how things are organized in space
the goal of the human race reaching equilibrium with the environment meeting the needs of the present without while also leaves resources for future generation
sustainability
friction of distance
a metaphor that explains that effort must be used to overcome distance
site vs situation
the physical character of a place( climate water sources, soil), the location of a place relative to other place. near...
the relationship between the distance on the ground and the corresponding distance on a specific map.
map scale
3 properties of distribution and definitions
density(# of things divided by the measurement of area) concentration(how closely packed together objects are) and pattern(the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area)
describing how far a distance is quantitative units of distance
absolute distance
formal region vs functional region
a region based entirely on something that can be identified and documented or measured all gov areas are this because they share a government. and a region based around a node or focal point terrestrial radio broadcasts are an example of this
distance decay
the idea that the interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases
region
difference between possibilism and environmental determinism
the belief that a physical environmental plays a role in he development of a society, but is no the only factor at work. and the belief that a physical environment is the reason that some societies are strong while other are weaker
the social heritage of a group of their way of life major components are language religion ethnicity, food and roles
culture
what is gis and gps
software that captures, manages analyzes and displays data that is collected geographically, a system that measures distance from a series of satellites to determine location on the planet.
geospatial
relating to data that is specific to one location