- Agricultural Density
- # of farmers per unit of land
- Arithmetic Density
- Total # of objects in area
- Baseline
- East west lines seperating townships
- Cartography
- Science of map making
- Concentration
- The extent of a features spread over a space of area
- Connections
- Relationships among people and objects across space.
- Contagious Diffusion
- Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic through a population
- Cultural Ecology
- Study of human-environmental relationships
- Cultural Landscape
- A regions combination of cultural economic and physical features
- Culture
- Body of beliefs, customs, material traits and social forms of groups of people
- Density
- The frequency with which something occurs in space
- Diffusion
- Process by which a characteristic spread across space
- Distance Decay
- The farther away a group is from one another the less likely they\'ll interact
- Distribution
- The arrangement of a feature in space.
- Environmental Determinism
- Cultural traits are formed and controlled by the enviroment
- Expansion Diffusion
- Spread of a feature in a snowball effect: hera., cont., stimulus
- Formal Region
- Uniform, homogeneous, shared characteristic
- Functional Region-(Nodal)
- Area organized around a focal point
- GIS
- Computer system that can capture and analyze geographic data
- Globalization
- Force or process that involves the whole world
- GPS
- Global positioning system that determines the precise position of something
- Hearth
- The place from which an innovation originates
- Hierarchical Diffusion
- Spread of an idea from nodes of power to other places
- Land Ordinance of 1785
- Divided the country into townships and ranges for sale of land
- Location
- Position a place occupies on earth
- Map
- A two-dimensional model of the earth\'s surface
- Mental Map
- Internal representation of an area or place
- Pattern
- Geometric arrangement of objects in space
- Physiological Density
- # of people per unit of area suitable for agriculture
- Place
- A specific spot on earth distinguished by particular characteristics
- Polder
- land created by draining from an area -(Netherlands- Env. Model)
- Possibilism
- People adjust to their environment
- Principle meridians
- North South lines separating townships
- Projection
- Method of transferring locations on the Earth to a flat surface
- Region
- Area of the Earth distinguished by distinctive cultural and physical features
- Relocation Diffusion
- Spread of an idea through physical movement of people
- Remote Sensing
- Collection of data about the Earth from a satellite
- Resource
- Substances useful to people
- Scale
- Relationship of a features size on a map to it\'s actual size on earth
- Section
- 1 by 1 mile section in a township, total of 36 in a township
- Situation
- Location of a place relative to other places(relative location)
- Space
- Physical gap between 2 objects
- Space-Time-Compression
- Reduction in time it takes something to to reach another place
- Stimulus Diffusion
- Spread of an underlying principle (mouse on all computers)
- Toponym
- Name given to a place on Earth (place name)
- Township
- Square 6 miles on each side
- Transnational corporation (Multinational)
- Spread throughout the world not just where it\'s headquarters are, major aspect of globalization
- Uneven development
- Gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from globalization
- Vernacular Region (Perceptual Region)
- A place people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
