This refers to the physical and cultural features of a place, independent of other places around it.
What is site?
100
The way in which phenomena, such as technological innovations, cultural trends, or outbreaks of disease, travel over space.
What is diffusion?
100
These exist digitally and use sophisticated software to create dynamic computer maps, some of which are three-dimensional or interactive.
What is a visualization?
100
The art and science of making maps.
What is cartography?
100
The areal pattern of connections between places.
What is a network?
200
This is a method whereby geographers group pieces of the earth's surface together according to certain similarities.
What is a region (regionalization)?
200
This describes the pattern of diminishing likelihood of interaction with a place with increasing distance from that place.
What is distance decay?
200
A software program that allows geographers to map, analyze, and model spatial data.
What is geographic information systems (GIS)?
200
These lines (aka meridians) originate at the prime meridian, which passes through Greenwich, England, and ends at the International Date Line; all of these lines meet at the poles.
What is longitude?
200
The field of geography that looks at variations in human behavior over space.
What is Human Geography?
300
This is a type of region in which boundaries are drawn around an interaction in a region. The region has a node and interactions happen less the further away from the node one goes.
What is a functional region?
300
Describes diffusion that results from direct contact with an individual.
What is contagious diffusion?
300
This is an integrated network of satellites that orbit the earth, broadcasting location information, in terms of latitude and longitude, to handheld receivers on the earth's surface.
What is a global positioning system (GPS)?
300
This refers to the process by which the three-dimensional surface of Earth is transferred to a two-dimensional map.
What is a projection?
300
The study of spatial characteristics of the earth's physical and biological systems.
What is Physical Geography?
400
This region describes how people informally organize places in their minds. Boundaries are imprecise, vague, or variable.
What is a vernacular (perceptual) region?
400
Something that inhibits a phenomenon from spreading across space.
What is an intervening obstacle (or barrier to diffusion)?
400
The process of capturing images from the earth's surface from airborne platforms such as satellites or airplanes.
What is remote sensing?
400
In this projection, compass directions are accurate, but the area of landmasses are distorted as you approach the poles.
What is a Mercator Projection?
400
A distribution concept that conveys how objects, features, or phenomena are spatially situated in relation to one another.
What is pattern?
500
This is the precise location of any object or place on the earth's surface as determined by a standard grid or coordinate system.
What is absolute location?
500
Describes the spread first to major nodes and then to other, less influential areas.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
500
A model that suggests that despite great distances, places with large populations may still have extensive interactions with each other.
What is the gravity model?
500
These maps transform space so that the political unit, such as a state or a country, with the greatest value of some type of data is represented by the largest relative area and all other polygons are represented proportionately to the largest polygon.
What is a cartogram?
500
The idea that with increasing transportation and communications technology, absolute distance between certain places is, in effect, shrinking.
What is Space-Time Compression (Time-Space Convergence)?