Unit 1 (37) Vocabs

A measure of physical space between locations

• absolute distance

• map distortion

• media report

• network

Position on Earth's surface using the coordinate system of longitude and latitude

• Longitude and latitude are used to determine the time zone
• Longitude and latitude are used to determine the height above sea level
• Longitude and latitude

• Absolute location

the ease with which a person can reach a location from another location

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  Accessibility

• Proximity
• Distance
• Direction

the total number of people divided by the total land area

• Arithmetic density

• Population growth
• Population distribution
• Population size

the primary time started by which the world regulates clock and time

• Greenwich Mean Time
• Central Standard Time
• Eastern Standard Time
• Coordinated universal time

the number of persons per unit of agricultural land

• Population density
• Agricultural density
• Physiological density

• Economic density

measures the number of farmers specifically on each unit of farmland (EX: The US' agricultural density is 1 farmer per square mile)

• Agricultural density

• Physiological density
• arithmetic density

• Economic density

a place with many layers of history that evolves through design and use over time (EX: neighborhoods, parks and open spaces, farms and ranches, sacred places)

• Historic District
• Modern District
• Cultural landscape

• Commercial District

counts the population of nation, state, or other geographic region (EX: Counting the number of mens and their ages)

• Census

• ELECTION

• CENSUS DATA

• POLL

when object in an area are close together (EX: The microchips in the smartphones)

• The object's density is high
• The object's density is low
• Clustering

• The object's size is small