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The exact position or relative situation of something on Earth’s surface.
What is location?
The physical gap or interval between two objects.
What is space?
A specific point distinguished by a unique set of characteristics.
What is place?
The ratio between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on Earth’s surface.
The commonality or repetition of geographic or cultural phenomenon.
What is Pattern?
The process of dividing Earth into smaller areas for analysis and comparison.
What is regionalization?
The process by which the world’s people, businesses, and cultures become increasingly interconnected.
What is globalization?
The flow of goods, people, or ideas between physical places.
What is spatial interaction?
Observable regularities in how humans use and organize space.
What is spatial behavior?
The increase in the number of people living in a given area over time.
What is population growth?
The permanent or semi-permanent movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
Shared practices, attitudes, and technologies of a group of people.
What is culture?
The authority of a government to exercise influence over activities within its borders.
What is political control?
A defined piece of Earth’s surface under the jurisdiction of a state.
What is territory?
The production of crops and raising of animals to sustain human needs.
What is agricultural production?
A car manufacturer chooses to locate its factory near steel suppliers and major highways. This demonstrates which concept?
What is industrial location?
A country improves its GDP, resulting in increased literacy rates and life expectancy. This is an example of what process?
What is economic development?
The arrangement of villages, towns, or cities across a landscape.
What are human settlement patterns?
The increasing percentage of people who live in cities instead of rural areas.
What is urbanization?
Information that has a geographic reference attached, such as census maps or satellite images.
What is spatial data?
In Bangladesh, rising sea levels force families to relocate inland, altering farming practices and settlement. This is an example of which key concept?
What is human–environment interaction?
A global clothing brand spreads fashion styles from Paris to New York to Tokyo, reducing local differences. This demonstrates what process?
What is globalization?
An airline hub like Atlanta connects flights from many different cities, illustrating a core area and its linked surroundings. What type of region is this?
What is Functional Region?
When migration spreads new foods, music, and religions into an urban neighborhood, which two vocabulary concepts are most clearly illustrated together?
What are migration and culture?
When goods, people, or ideas move between two places, geographers describe this as a flow across space.
What is spatial interaction?