Absolute location
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- Absolute location
- identification of place by a precise and accepted system of coordinates.
- Relative location
- the position of a place or thing in relation to that of other places or things.
- Cultural landscape
- natural landscape as modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group or society.
- Formal region
- a region of essential uniformity in one or a limited number of related physical or cultural features.
- Functional region
- a region differentiated by what occurs within it
- Large scale map
- representation of a small land area, usually with a representative fraction of 1:75,000 or less.
- Small scale map
- representation of a large land area on which small features cannot be shown to true scale.
- Site
- something’s immediate surroundings and attributes.
- Situation
- location of something in relation to physical and human characteristics of a larger region.
- “spatialâ€
- interaction or ideas from space to space.
- Location
- relative and absolute position on earth’s surface.
- Human Interaction
- development and consequences of human-environmental relationships.
- Movement
- patterns and change in human spatial interaction on earth.
- Place
- physical and human characteristics of a locale.
- Regions
- how they form and change.
- Igneous rock
- rock formed from cooling and solidifying of molten rock
- Sedimentary rock
- composed of particles of gravel, sand, silt, and clay eroded from existing rock.
- Metamorphic rock
- – rocks transformed from igneous and sedimentary rocks by earth forces that generate heat, pressure, and chemical reaction.
- Plate tectonics
- theory that lithosphere is divided into plates that slide or drift very slowly over asthenosphere.
- Diastrophism
- great pressure acting on the plates that deforms them by folding, twisting, warping, breaking or compressing rock.
- Weathering
- breakdown and decomposition of rocks and minerals at or near earth’s surface in response to atmospheric factors.
- Karst topography
- refers to a large limestone region marked by sinkholes, caverns, and underground streams.
- Alluvium
- water deposited soil.
- Tsunami
- seismic sea waves generated by an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
- Subduction
- – process by which one lithospheric plate is forced down into the asthenosphere as a result of collision with another plate.