Grand Review Ap Human Geography – Flashcards
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Remote Sensing
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Use of aircraft and satellites to observe and measure the earth's surface
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Sensors (Remote Sensing)
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Photographic images, Thermal images, Multispectral scanners, radar images
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Multispectral scanners
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A device that senses and records datat about light of different wavelengths
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Environmental Geography
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The study of the impact humans have on the physical environment, and the environment's impact on human
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Quantitative Revolution
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A period in human geography associated with the widespread adoption of mathematical models and statistical techniques.
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Regional Geography
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the study of geographic regions
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Ptolemy
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A Roman geography and astronomer who wrote a Guide to Geography with longitude and latitude
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Quantitative Data
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Associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial location and association
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W.D. Pattison
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Claimed geography comes from earth-science tradition, culture-environment tradition, locational tradition, and area-analysis tradition
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earth-science tradition
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physical geography
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culture-environment tradition
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environmental geography
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locational tradition
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spatial analysis, mapping, quantitative analysis
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area-analysis
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regional geography
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Region
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an area with common features that set it apart from other areas
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qualitative data
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data associated with a humanistic approach to geography and is collected through interviews, empirical observations or interpretation of artifact
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carl sauer
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A geography at UCB who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the basic unit of geographical analysis
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eratosthenes
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Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the moon and sun
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Earth System Science
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A systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth's physical system and process on a global scale (holistic)
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Global Positioning System
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A group of satellites used to help determine a location anywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device
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Geographical Information System
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A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic information
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Fertile Crescent
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Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching 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.
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Cultural Landscape
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A culture's effect on landscape
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Cultural Ecology
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A holistic study of an environment including both society and nature
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Anthropogenic
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Human-caused changes on nature
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Cartography
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Representing geography through maps
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Thematic Layers
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Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a GPS to understand and analyze a spatial relationship
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Vernacular regions
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exist in the minds of people (perceptual regions)
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Sense of Place
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Feelings associated with experience and memories associated with a particular place
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Spatial Perspective
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An intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of specific phenomena (how, why,where, and in relation to what)
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Systematic Geography
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The study of earth's integrated systems as a whole, instead of focusing on single phenomena
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Sustainability
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The concept of using the earth's resources to provide for the present and the future
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Physical Geography
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the study of physical features of the earth's surface, and how it has changed
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Nomothetic
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Concepts or rules that can be applied universally.
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Natural Landscape
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The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activity
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Idiographic
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Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place
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George Perkins Marsh
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An inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, who wrote "Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as modified by human action"
