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| is based on the cardinal points of North, South , East and West |
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| refers to the spatial separation between two points on the earth’s surface measured by some accepted standard unit such as miles or kilometers.(shortest distance) |
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| transforms that linear measurement into other units more meaningful for the space relationship in question. |
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| consideration of distance implies assessment of accessibility “how easy is it to overcome the friction of gravity?” or “How easy or difficult is it to surmount the barrier of the time and space separation of places?” |
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| a broader concept implying all the tangible and intangible ways in which places are connected; physical telephone lines, streets and road systems, pipelines and sewers. |
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| the visible expression of that human activity is the cultural landscape( leaving handprints, footprints) |
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| the measure of the number of quantity of anything within a defined unit of area. |
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| (or it opposite concentration) is the statement of the amount spread of a phenomenon over an area. It tells us not how much but how far things are spread out. If they are close together spatially, they are considered clustered or agglomerated. If they are spread apart they are dispersed or scattered. |
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| is one of essential uniformity is one or a limited combination of physical or cultural features |
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| • Geographic information system- |
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| extend the use of digitized data and computer manipulation to investigate and display spatial information |
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| implies the increasing interconnection of peoples and societies in all parts of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental processes becomes international in scale and effect. |
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| is images about an area or an environment developed by an individual on the basis of information or impression received interpreted and stored. |
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| is a simplified abstraction of reality structured to clarify causal relations ships |
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| physical characteristics refer to such natural aspects of a locale as it climate and soil the presence or absence of water supplies and mineral resources, its terrain features and the like. These natural Landscape attributes provide the setting within which human actions occurs. |
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| in contrast may be visualized as a spatial system. It’s parts are interdependent and throughout it extent the functional region operates as a dynamic, organizational unit |
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| the geometric arrangement of objects in space. |
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| are less rigorously structured that the formal and functional regions geographers devise. They reflect feelings and images rather than objective date and because of that may be more meaningful in the lives and actions of those who recognize them than are the more abstract regions of geographers |
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| designates the method chosen to represent the earth’s curved surface as a flat map |
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| earths areas that display significant elements of internal uniformity and external difference from surrounding territories. |
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process which to bring order to the immense diversity of earth’s surface.
• Relative direction – In the united states we go “out west” or “back east” these directional references are culturally biased and locationally variable despite their reference to cardinal compass points |
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| In the united states we go “out west” or “back east” these directional references are culturally biased and locationally variable despite their reference to cardinal compass points |
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| transforms those linear measurements into other units more meaningful for space relationship in question |
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| the position of a place in relation to other places or activities |
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| is a relatively new term but the process it describes detecting the nature of an object and the content of the area from a distance more that 150 years old |
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| when you say a place may be large or small we speak both the nature of the place itself and the generalizations that can be made about it. In either way geographer are concerned with scale- ratio between the size of area on a map and the actual size of that same area on earth. |
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| an absolute location concept refers to the physical and cultural characteristics and attributed of the place itself. It is more than a mathematical location. For it tells the internal features of that place. |
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| on the other hand refers the relations of the locale |
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| is the process of dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected. |
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| the arrangement of items in the earth’s surface is called spatial distribution and may be analyzed by the elements common to all spatial distributions; density, dispersion, pattern. |
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| –placed interact with other places in structured and comprehensible ways- geographers add accessibility and connectivity to the ideas of location and distance. |
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| the content of area is interrelated and constitutes a spatial system that, in common with all systems functions as a unit because its component parts are interdependent. |
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| is one of essential uniformity in one or a limited combination of physical or cultural features. |
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