Ap HUG ultimate

• Human Geography


  the study of people and how they interact with their environment.

  
• Unit 1
• Spatial organization


  The pattern and distribution of places, people and events on Earth's surface and the analysis of them. Why of where

  
• Spatial interaction


  The movement of physical processes, human activities, and ideas within and among regions

  
• Remote Sensing


  The gathering of data from a distance, as with a satellite

  
• Global Positioning System (GPS)


  use of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers to determine exact location on the global grid (eg. precisely locating borders).

  
• Geographic Information System (GIS)


  A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.

  
• Geospatial Data


  All information that can be tied to a specific place on Earth

  
• Quanitive data


  information that can be measured and recorded using numbers

  
• Qualitive data


  descriptive information that does not use numbers.

  
• Projection


  the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map

  
• Distortion


  Errors resulting from the flattening of the Earth Surface.

  
• Robinson Projection


  Distortion is minimal and the map is used by schools. Everything is compressed in some manner, especially polar areas, that are hard to see.

  
• Mercartor Projection


  Shows true direction, map used by ship navigators. Polar areas are too large (Greenland appears as large as South America)

  
• Peters Projection


  Keep land masses equal in area (meaning every continent is the same size). Controversial Map

  
• Scale


  the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole

  
• National Scale


  scale of a map that shows the entire nation or nations

  
• Regional Scale


  Interactions occurring within a region, in a regional setting.

  
• Regional analysis


  Examining a specific region using geographical or geospatial data to analysis characteristics in one or more regions.

  
• Local Scale


  A spatial scale that is essentially equivalent to a community.

  
• Map


  A two-dimensional model of the Earth's Surface

  
• Cartography


  process of making a map

  
• Variable


  something that may change or vary.

  
• Geographical Grid


  a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on Earth's surface

  
• Absolute direction


  Fixed frame of reference and always points in the same direction, regardless of their location.

  
• Absolute distance


  The distance that can be measured with a standard unit length, such as a mile or kilometer.

  
• Relative Direction


  Include left,right,down,backward, and up.

  
• Relative Distance


  is a measure of the social, cultural and economic relatedness or connectivity between two places - how connected or disconnected they are - despite their absolute distance from each other.

  
• Parallel


  A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator.

  
• Meridian


  An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.

  
• Elevation


  height above a given level, especially sea level.

  
• Greenwitch mean time


  Located at the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude) in Greenwich, England

  
• International Date Line


  if you cross it heading east toward America, you move back one entire day.

  
• Isoline Maps


  use lines of equal value to represent data like elevation or temperature.

  
• Choropleth Map


  some variable is depicted with shading patterns or colors (eg. elevation).

  
• Proportinal symbol map


  use of symbols to display the frequency of some variable.

  
• Dot Maps


  use dots to represent some frequency of a variable

  
• Cartograms


  portray relative measures (eg. travel time, transportation costs, population size)

  
• Field Observations


  The study of geography by visiting places and observing the people that live there and how they react with the changes there.

  
• Media reports


  Refers to various means of communication including written and visual forms.