The study of characteristics of humans and human activities, such as population, culture, politics, urban areas, and economics.

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Stylized maps that show theories about spatial distribution. They are made for agricultural/urban land use, distribution of cities, and stores/factory locations.

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Show theories using words, graphs, or tables. They often depict changes over time rather than across space, with more accuracy than spatial models.

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Idea that things such as cities near each other are more closely connected than things father apart.

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The general arrangement of things being studied.

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Any information that can be measured and recorded using numbers such as total immigrants to a city.

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Quantative and spatial, includes geographic locations such as country, zip code, latitude and longitude, or address. Often used with geographic information systems.

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Designed for people to refer to for general info about different places.

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Show/label boundaries and things such as countries, cities, states, and capitals which were created by humans.

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Show/label natural features, like mountains, rivers, and deserts.

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Show and label highways, streets, and alleys.

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Show/label property lines and details of land ownership.

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Show aspects of information or a phenomenon( includes choropleth, dot distribution, graduated symbol, and isoline maps).

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Maps that use various colors, or shades of one color, or patterns to show location/distribution of spatial data.

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Shows a specific location/distribution of something across a map. Each dot represents a specific quantity.

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Use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something. Larger sizes indicate more, smaller sizes indicate less.

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Also known as isometric maps, they use lines that connect equal points to show variations in data across space( an example of this map is a topographic map).

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A type of isoline map, points of equal elevation are connected, which creates contours.

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Shows sizes of countries, states, counties, and other areal units according to a specific statistic.

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Map that shows a larger amount of area with less detail.

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Map that shows a smaller amount of area with more detail.

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The ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of the same thing on a map.

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Precise spot something is located according to a system.

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Exact measurement of the physical space between two places.

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Where a place is in relation to others.

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Indicates the degree of nearness based on time/money, depends on mode of travel.

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Distance of features above sea level, usually measured in feet or meters.

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Phenomena arranged in a concentrated area( example: restaurants in a food court)

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Phenomena spread out over a large area( example: large malls distributed in a city)

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Phenomena arranged in a straight line( houses on a street)

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An equal area and cylindrical representation of the Earth.

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An alteration of the original shape, area, distance, and direction.

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The task of defining and describing landscapes.

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The act of physically visiting a place and recording firsthand information.

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Professional images captured from planes in the atmosphere.

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Articles published by newspapers or magazines.

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Records of places, people, and occurrences of a region a traveler visits.

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Treaties and agreements made by the government.

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Examining photos to identify objects and judge their significance.

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System used for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface.

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System that uses multiple satellites to determine and record an exact location.

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The use of cameras or other sensors mounted on aircrafts/satellites to collect digital images&video of the Earth's surface.

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Counts the population of a nation, state, or other geographic info, it records characteristics such as age, gender, and occupation.

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The area between two or more phenomena/things.

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The specific human and physical characteristics of a location.

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The characteristics of a place at it's immediate location.

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The location of a place relative to its surroundings and connectivity to other places.( NOT RELATIVE LOCATION)

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The idea that humans tend to perceive characteristics of places in a different way based on personal beliefs.

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Place names that sometimes provide insight into physical geography, history, or culture of a location.

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The shrinking relative distance between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication.

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The patterns and movement of ideas, people, products and other phenomena.

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The general arrangement of things in the distribution of phenomena across space, that give clues about cause and effect of distribution.

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The connection and exchange between humans and the natural world.

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Items that occur in the natural environment that people can use( examples: oil and water)

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Trying to use resources in a way that allows future use while minimizing negative impacts on the environment.

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The study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people.

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The belief that landform and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and social development, while ignoring cultures.

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A view made in opposition to environmental determinism, acknowledging limits on the effects of the natural environment, and focuses more on the role of human culture.

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Also known as level of generalization, allows geographers to look at local, regional, country, or global scale.

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Scale of analysis that shows the entire world

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Scale of analysis showing a region( multiple countries or a part of a country)

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Scale of analysis that shows a country.

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Scale of analysis that shows a province, state, city, county, or neighborhood.

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When geographers organize data into different scales, allowing data to be more easily mapped and organized.

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Also known as uniform regions, or homogenous regions, they are united by one or more traits: physical, political, cultural, or economic

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Also known as nodal regions, these regions are organized around a focal point and defined by activity( usually political, social, or economic).

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Region defined by the informal sense of place people assign to them, also known as vernacular regions. The boundaries vary because of people's perception of the region.

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A smaller part of a region, it shares some characteristics with the rest of the region, but has some different qualities.

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A representation of reality or theories of reality to see spatial patterns, specific factors, and variations place to place

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