Basic Concepts:



1. Cartogram

2. Cultural ecology

3. Cultural landscape

4. Diffusion (Expansion/Relocation)

5. Direction (absolute, relative)

6. Distance (absolute, relative)

7. Distance Decay

8. Distortion

Distribution

9. Environmental Determinism/Possibilism

10. Formal/uniform regions

11. Friction of Distance

12. Functional/nodal regions

13. Geospatial data (census, satellite)

14. Geographic Information System (GIS)

15. Global Positioning System (GPS)

16. Globalization

17. Hearth

18. Independent invention

19. Location (absolute, relative)

20. Perceptual/vernacular regions

21. Physical maps

22. Political ecology

23. Remote sensing

Scale

24. Sequent Occupance

25. Site/Situation

26. Spatial

27. Time space compression

28. Time space convergence

Know these!

World Regions (e.g. SW Asia, N Africa, etc)

Five Themes of Geography

Pattison’s Four Traditions

Types of Maps:

Reference maps

Physical

Political

Thematic maps

Choropleth

Dot

Graduated symbol

Isoline

Map projections:

Azimuthal

Mercator

Polar P

Robinson

Know these too!

North/South poles (90°N or S)

Latitudes, Parallel

Equator (0° Latitude)

Longitude, Meridian

Prime Meridian (0° Longitude)

International date line (180° Longitude)

Time zones

Geographic perspective

Spatial perspective

Landscape analysis (field observations, photographic interpretations)

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