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- Qualitative Data
- Data associated with more humanistic approach to geography, pften collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives
- Thematic layers
- Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a Geographical Information System to understand and analyze a spatial relationship
- Cultural landscape
- The human-modified natural landscape specifically containing the import of a particular culture or society
- Environmental Geography
- The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the environment and vice versa
- Region
- A territory that encompasses many places that share similar attributes (physical, culural, or both) in comparison woth the attributes of places elsewhere
- Carl Sauer
- Geogrpher from the U of Cali at Berkley who defined the concept of culturla landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis.
- Idiographic
- Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place.
- Systematic geography
- The study of the earth's integrate systems as a whole, instead of focusing on particular phenomena in a single place
- Sustainability
- The concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for the future generations
- Geographic Scale
- refers to a conceptual hierarchy of spaces
- Quantitative Data
- Data assocaited with mathmatical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial location ans association
- Oldest field of geography
- Cartography
- Ptolemy
- Roman goegrapher-astronomer and author of GUIDE TO GEOGRAPHY which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude.
- Regional geography
- The study of geographic regions
- Spatial perspective
- An intellictual framework that looks at the particular locations of specific phenomena, how and why that phenomena is where it is, and how it is spatially related to phenomena in other places
- Anthropogenic
- Human-induced changes on the natural environment
- Eratosthenes
- The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C ; he was one of the first cartographers, accuratly calculated the earths circumfrence, and coined the term "geography"
- Sense of Place
- Feelings evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and mempories associated with a particular place
- Nomothetic
- Concepts or rules that can be applied universally
- Remote Sensing
- Observation and mathematical measurment of earth's surface using aircraft and satelite.
- Fertile Cresent
- Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land strecheding from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and present day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C
- Quantitative Revolution
- A period in human geography associated with the widespread adoption of mathmatical models and statistical analysis
- Natural landscape
- The physical environment that has not been affected by humans
- Earth system science
- systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth's physical system and processes on a global scale.
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- A set of computer tools used to capture, store, tranform, analyze, and display geographic data
- Physical Geography
- The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions and changes through time of the natural phenomena of the earth's surface
- George Perkins Marsh
- Inventor, diplomat, politicianm and scholar, his classic work, MAN AND NATURE, or PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY MODIFIED NY HUMAN ACTION, provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- A set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable device
- Cartography
- Theory and practices of making visual representations of the earth's surface
- W.D. Pattison
- He claimed that geography drew drom 4 distinct traditions: earth science tradition, cultural-environmental tradition, locational tradition, and ara-analysis tradition