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APHG Geography- the study of where things are found and why, coined by…

- - - - Connection- relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
        
        Connectivity- the degree of political, social,and economic between two places
        
        Gravity Model-
    - - Small Scale Maps- shows large areas, low resolution, World Maps
        
        Large Scale Maps- small ratio between areas, small areas, higher resolution, Map of Charlesto
- - - - Perceptual/Vernacular Region- regions only exist in cultural identity, fuzzy boundaries, not science; ex: deep south
- - - - Distortion- severe on small scale maps, in shape, distance, relative size, and direction
      - Mercator Projection- accurate shape, direction consistent, rectangular; relative size greatly distorted near pole
        
        Robinson's- good oceans, most used in classrooms; gives too much space to oceans
        
        Homolosine- preserves size, shape; meridians don't connect, hemispheres split
        
        Fuller- accurate size, shape; rearranges cardinal directions
        
        Azimuthal- looks down from poles, shows a plane
  - - - Topographic- show elevation through isoline lines
  - - - Prime Meridian- 0 degrees, runs through Greenwich England, creates Greenwich Mean Time
        
        International Date Line- 180 degrees, where date changes crossing
        
        Time Zone- 24, new one every 15 degrees long., Russia has most
- - - - Post Structuralist- study of place as a product of the beliefs or ideologies of ruling elite, ex: segregation
  - - - Assimilation- culture altered to resemble others, ex: imperialism
        
        Acculturation- process of changes in a culture, may be in both interacting cultures, can retain distinct, ex: US and Japan
- - - - Toponym- name of a place; ex: Charleston
- - - - Environmental Determinism-the physical environment causes social development, ex: building road around a mountain, WRONG
      - Land Reclamation- creating new land through dykes and polders, in the Netherlands
        
        Sustainability- using resources so they will meet current needs and not limit future use
        
        Economic- is this economically feasible?, trading, supply and demand, relies on tech
        
        Social- is this socially acceptable?, values of culture
        
        Environmental- preservation (not using at all), conservation (using sustainably)
    - - Ecology- study of ecosystems
        
        Abiotic- non living,
        
        Atmosphere- air
        
        Climate- long-term, average weather conditions
        
        Hydrosphere- water on and near surface
        
        Lithosphere- Earth's crust and portion of upper mantle
        
        Biotic- living things
        
        Vegetation- biome, living things/plants
        
        Desert- little/no rain, Sahara
        
        Savanna- droughts and fires, Lion King
        
        Grassland- more rain than savanna, Great Plains
        
        Forest- trees, animals, Amazon
      - Anthropogenic-
  - - - Uneven Development
- - - - Land Ordinance of 1785- put new land in American West into grids based on coordinantes, why west states square
- - - - Space-TIme Compression- reduction in amount of time taken to travel same distance, as in diffusion, causes globalization, result of improved communications and transport
        
        Spatial Interaction- how objects interact in space,