Maps
Technology
Regions
Spatial
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Cartography

The science of making maps.

100

Census

A periodic and official account of a country's population.

100

Toponym

The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.

100

Spatial Patterns 

General arrangement of things being studied in an area. Ex: Direction, clustering, dispersal, elevation.

100

Possibilism

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

200

Projection

A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.

200

Remote Sensing

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods.

200

Regions

Defined on the basis of one or more unifying characteristics or on patterns of activity.

200

Space

The physical gap or interval between two objects.

200

Sustainability

The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.

300

Distortion

Unable to represent the three-dimensional Earth on a flat surface without reconfiguration from correct shape, area, distance, and direction.
300

Geospatial Data

Includes all information that can be tied to a specific place. Location of things, human activities or traits, where are speakers of a language located, ect.

300

Formal Region

An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.

300

Spatial Perspective

Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space.

300

Environmental Determinism

A 19th-early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

400

Reference Maps 

Show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by factors such as longitude and latitude.

400

Global Positioning System (GPS)

A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.

400

Functional/Nodal Region

An area organized around a node or focal point.

400

Spatial Relationships

Refers to any sort of interaction between two locations, whether they be specific locations or regions.

400

Time-Space Compression

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.

500

Thematic Maps

A thematic map depicts a single feature, for example, climate, population, landform, land use, ect. Examples: Isoline, Choropleth, Proportional Symbol, Dot.

500

Geographic Information System (GIS)

A computer system that scores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. Includes online mapping, satellite navigation, visualization.

500

Vernacular Region

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

500

Spatial Analysis

The process of examining the locations, attributes, and relationships of features in spatial data through overlay and other analytical techniques.

500

Flows

A pattern of migration in which migrants (workers) move back and forth between two or a small number of places, such as their home and a distant worksite.