Chapter 1 rubenstein

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Agricultural density The ratio of the number of farmers to
the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.


Arithmetic density The total number of people divided by
the total land area.


Base line An east-west line designated under the Land
Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and
numbering of townships in the United States.


Cartography The science of making maps.


Concentration The spread of something over a given area.
Concentric zone model A model of the internal structure of
cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a
series of rings.


Connections Relationships among people and objects
across the barrier of space.


Contagious diffusion The rapid, widespread diffusion
feature or trend throughout a population.


Cultural ecology Geographic approach that emphasizes
human-environment relationships.


Cultural landscape Fashioning of a natural landscape by a
cultural group.


Culture The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and
material traits that together constitute a group of people's
distinct tradition.


Density The frequency With which something exists within
a given unit of area.


Diffusion The process of spread of a feature or trend from
one place to another over time.


Distance decay The diminishing in importance and
eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing
distance from its origin.


Distribution The arrangement of something across Earth's
surface.


Environmental determinism A nineteenth- and early
twentieth century approach to the study of geography that
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.


Expansion diffusion The spread of a feature or trend
among people from one area to another in a snowballing
process.


Formal region (or uniform or homogeneous region) An
area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive
characteristics.


Functional (or nodal) region An area organized around a
node or focal point.


GIS A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes,
and displays geographic data.


Global Positioning System (GPS) A system that
determines the precise position of something on Earth
through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and
receivers.


Globalization Actions or processes that involve the entire
world and result in making something worldwide in scope.


Greenvich Mean Time The time in that time zone
encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude.


Hearth The region from which innovative ideas originate.


Hierarchical religion A religion in which a central
authority exercises a high degree of control.


International Date Line An arc that for the most part
follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several
places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the
International Date Line heading east (toward America), the
clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you
go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.


Land Ordinance of 1785 A law that divided much of the
United States into a system of townships to facilitate the
sale of land to settlers.


Latitude The numbering system used to indicate the
location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring
distance north and south of the equator (0°).


Location The position of anything on Earth's surface.


Longitude The numbering system used to indicate the
location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring
distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°).


Map A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's
surface or a portion of it.


Mental map An internal representation of a portion of
Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a
place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place
and where places are located.


Meridian An arc drawn on a map between the North and
South poles.


Parallel circle drawn around the globe parallel to the
equator and at right angles to the meridians.


Pattern The geometric or regular arrangement of
something in a stud area.


Physiological density The number of people per unit of
area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.


Place A specific point on Earth distinguished by a
particular character.


Polder Land created by the Dutch by draining water from
an area.


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.


Principal meridian A north-south line designated in the
Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and
numbering of townships in the United States.


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


Region An area distinguished by a unique combination of
trends or features.


Regional (or cultural landscape) studies An approach to
geography that emphasizes the relationships among social
and physical phenomena in a particular study area.


Relocation diffusion The spread of a feature or trend
through bodily movement of people from one place to
another.


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


Resource A substance in the environment that is useful to
people, is economically and technologically feasible to
access, and is socially acceptable to use.


Scale Generally, the relationship between the portion of
Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the
relationship between the size of an object on a map and the
size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.


Section A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land
Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States
into 36 sections.


Site The physical character of a place


Situation The location of a place relative to other
places. Situation factors Location factors related to the
transportation of materials into and from a factory.


Space The physical gap or interval between two objects.


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


Stimulus diffusion The spread of an underlying
principle, even though a specific characteristic is
rejected.


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


Township A square normally 6 miles on a side. The
Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United
States into a series of townships.


Transnational corporation A company that conducts
research, operates factories, and sells products in many
countries, not just where its headquarters or
shareholders are located.


Uneven development The increasing gap in economic
conditions between core and peripheral regions as a
result of the globalization of the economy.


Venacular region (or perceptual region) An area that
people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity.

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