Chapter 1
The objectives of Chapter 1 are an exploration of space, place, region, and scale using geography's primary tool, the map. You will also gain some history of the science of geography as well as an introduction to the modern techniques of our profession (GIS, GPS, and remote sensing, among others).
Key Terms and Vocab
Agriculture density
Arithmetic density
Base line
Cartography
Concentration
Connections
Contagious diffusion
Cultural ecology
Cultural landscape
Culture
Density
Diffusion
Distance decay
Distribution
Environmental determinism
Expansion diffusion
Formal region
Functional region
Geographic Information System(GIS)
Global Positioning System(GPS)
Globalization
Greenwich Mean Time
Hearth
Hierarchical
International date line
Land Ordinance of 1785
Latitude
Location
Longitude
Map
Mental map
Meridian
Parallel
Pattern
Physiological density
Place
Polder
Possibilism
Prime meridian
Principal meridian
Projection
Region
Regional studies
Relocation diffusion
Remote sensing
Resource
Scale
Section
Site
Situation
Site
Situation
Space
Space-time compression
Stimulus diffusion
Toponym
Township
Transnational corporation
Uneven development
Vernacular region
UNIT 2- Population
Age distribution
Carrying capacity
Cohort
Demographic equation
Demographic momentum
Demographic regions
Demographic Transition model
Dependency ratio
Diffusion of fertility control
Disease diffusion
Doubling time
Ecumene
Epidemiological Transition model
Gendered space
Infant mortality rate
J-curve
Maladaptation
Malthus, Thomas
Mortality
Natality
Neo-Malthusian
Overpopulation
Population densities
Population distributions
Population explosion
Population projection
Population pyramid
Rate of natural increase
S-curve
Sex ratio
Standard of living
Sustainability
Underpopulation
Zero population growth
*NEW WORDS TO KNOW*
Baby boom
Baby bust
Cohort
Generation X
MIGRATION
Activity space
Chain migration
Cyclic movement
Distance decay
Forced
Gravity model
Internal migration
Intervening opportunity
Migration patterns
• Intercontinental
• Interregional
• Rural-urban
Migratory movement
Periodic movement
Personal space
Place utility
Push-pull factors
Refugee
Space-time prism
Step migration
Transhumance
Transmigration
Voluntary
