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the precise spot where something is according to a system.Absolute Location
The ratio of the number if farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. Agricultural Density
The total number of people divided by the total land area. Arithemetic Density 
An east-west line designed under the Land Ordinance of 1875 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the united States.Base Lines
The science of making maps.Cartography
The spread of something over a given area.Concentration
Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. Connections
<a>The continuous spread of a cultural trait outward from its hearth through contact among other people</a>Contagious Diffusion
Geographic aproach that emphasizes human- enviornment relationships.Cultural Ecology
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.&nbsp;<br>Humans changing the enviornment.&nbsp;Culutural Landscape
The body of customary beliefs, soical forms, and material traits that together constitute a groups distinct tradition.&nbsp;Culture
<a>the number of something in a specifically defined area.</a>Density
<a>The inverse relationship between distance and connection.</a>Distance Decay
<a>the way a phenomena is spread out over an area</a>Distribution
<a>The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development</a>Environmental Determinism
<a>a group of places that have similar attributes, for example, a political region</a>Formal Region
<a>Regions that are organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity that occurs across the region;</a>Functional Region
Computer system that can store, analyze, and display infromation from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets.Geographic Information System (GIS)
includes all information/data that can be tied to a certain place, including human activities and traits.Geospatial Data&nbsp;
2d or 3d maps that allow people to zoom in or out to see the data in new and interesting ways.Geovisualization
GPS receivers on the earth's surface use the locations of multiple satellites to determine and record a receiver's exact location.Global Positioning System (GPS)
<a>the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s.</a>Globalization
<a>The time in that zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude.</a>Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
The region from which innovative ideas originate.Hearth
<a>The spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places/people or from centers of wealth and importance.</a>Hierarchial Diffusion
<a>Is the study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities</a>Human Geography
<a>the line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered on the 180th longitude line.</a>International Date Line
<a>A law that divided much of the United states into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.</a>Land Ordinance of 1785
the distance north or south of the equator.Latitude
identifies where specific phenomena are located either on a grid system or relative to another location.Location
the distance east or west of the prime meridian.Longitude
<a>A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.</a>Map
<a>A map which represents the perceptions and knowledge a person has of an area.</a>Mental Map
<a>An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.</a>Meridian
<a>A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator.</a>Parallel
the general arrangement of things being studiedPattern
<a>Is the study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment on earth.</a>Physical Geography
show and label property lines and details of land ownerwhip.Physical Maps
<a>number of people per unit of area of arable land</a>Physiological Density&nbsp;
<a>Refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location</a>Place
<a>A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays</a>Possibalism
an imaginary line that runs from pole to pole through Greenwich, England.Prime Meridian
<a>A north to south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States.</a>Principle Meridians
<a>the process of showing a curved surface on a flat surface.</a>Projection
<a>An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.</a>Regional Studies
<a>Is a description of where something is in relation to other things</a>Relative Location
<a>The spread of a cultural and cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them</a>relocation diffusion
gathers information from satellites that orbit the earth or other craft above the atmosphere.&nbsp;Remote Sensing
a group of places in the same area that share a chracteristicRegion
<a>The physical characteristics at an immidiate location.</a>Site
the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.Situation
improvements in transportation and communication have shortened the time required for movement, trade, or other forms of interaction between two places.Space Time Compression
<a>Matching patterns of distribution</a>Spatial Association
the general arrangement of phenomena on a map.spatial patterns
when an unerlying idea from a cultural hearth is adopted by another culture but the adopting group modifies or rejects one trait.&nbsp;Stimulus Diffusion
place namesToponym
<a>a region defined by people's popular feelings and images rather than by objective data</a>Vernacular Region (Perceptual)