human geography - one of the two major divisions of geography: the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes, physical geography - One of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the Earth’s natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals and topography., spatial distribution - physical location of geographic phenomena across space, scale of analysis - representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction. Can be at different levels, e.g. global, state, regional, local, subnational, county etc., cartographic scale - a ratio between a distance on a map and its corresponding distance in the real world., location theory - An attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. Ex: von Thunen’s model is an agricultural location theory., sense of place - State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character., spatial interaction - the degree of flow of people, ideas, and goods among places., cartography - The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design., reference maps - Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude., thematic maps - Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon., absolute location - The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude., Global positioning system (GPS) - Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features., relative location - The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places., remote sensing - A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments such as satellites that are physically distant from the area or object of study., Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user., Mental map/activity space - Picture the way space is organized as determined by an individual’s perception, impression and knowledge of that space; places where daily activity occurs., formal region - A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity (sameness) in one or more areas, functional region - A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. (Job of an area), perceptual region - A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. (Opinion of an area), distance decay - The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin of the source, time-space convergence - refers to the greatly accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas during the twentieth century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communications, environmental determinism - The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life., possibilism - A response to determinism that holds that human decision making, not the environment is the crucial factor in cultural development. Possibilists view the environment as providing a set of broad constraints that limits the possibilities of human choice.,

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