AP Human Geo(Summer)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cartography | the study of maps |
| region | an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body |
| formal region | places with similar features |
| functional region | a type of region that is characterized by its function |
| geographical information system | a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data |
| global positioning system | a system of earth-orbiting satellites that enables the position of a receiving device on or near the earth's surface to be accurately estimated from the difference in arrival times of the signals |
| remote sensing | the science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance |
| greenwich mean time | the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England |
| international date line | a theoretical line following approximately the 180th meridian |
| land ordinance of 1785 | adopted by the United States Congress to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired at the Treaty of Paris |
| latitude | the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface |
| longitude | angular distance east or west on the earth's surface |
| location | a place of settlement, activity, or residence |
| map | a representation of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens |
| mental map | a map of an environment within the mind of an individual |
| place | a particular portion of space |
| projection | a systematic construction of lines drawn on a plane surface representative of and corresponding to the meridians and parallels of the curved surface of the earth |
| scale | a graduated line representing proportionate size |
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