A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.

A person's point-of-view perception of their area of interaction.

The physical character of a place.

The location of a place relative to other places.

The physical gap or interval between two objects.

The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.

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

The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.

The movement of people, goods, and ideas between different places.

Environmental determinism

The study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories.

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

Time-space compression

The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.

The use of Earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future.

The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.

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

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

An area organized around a node or focal point.

A central point in a functional region where functions are coordinated and directed.

Residential areas surrounding a city.

A region defined by people's beliefs or perceptions.

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

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

A multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system as the primary unit of social analysis.

The outer limits or edge of an area or object.

The industrializing, mostly capitalist countries which are positioned between the periphery and core countries.

Sustainable development

Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.

Data expressing a certain quantity, amount or range.

Data that approximates or characterizes but does not measure the attributes, characteristics, properties, etc.

An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.

Geographic Information Systems

A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.

The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.

The scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.

Global Positioning System

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

People who draw or produce maps.

The distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer.

A measure of the social, cultural, and economic relatedness or connectivity between two places.

A compass direction such as north or south.

Directions such as left, right, forward, backward, up, and down based on people's perception of places.

The relationship between a distance on the map and the corresponding distance on the ground.

Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features.

Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon.

A thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed.

Maps that use dots to represent the frequency of a variable in a given area.

Geography Concepts Flashcards

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Physical geography

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The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes.

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Human Geography

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The branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.

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Spatial Perspective

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A way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of various spaces.

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Ecological perspective

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A viewpoint that considers the relationships between organisms and their environments.

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Location

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A particular place or position.

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Absolute location

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The exact position of a place on the earth's surface.

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Relative location

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The position of a place in relation to another place.

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