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What is the spatial approach?
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That all things are laid out, organized and arranged on the surface of the earth. It is inherently spatial
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What is enviromental geography?
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The bridge between physical and human geography
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What is absolute location?
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The exact location of a place, using latitude and longitude
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What is relative location?
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Location relative to other human and physical features on the landscape
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What is diffusion?
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The spatial spreading of a culture element or another phenomenon
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What is a functional region?
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An area that interacts with each other
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What is a formal region?
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An area that is homogeneous(the same)
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Describe the Robinson Projection
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Does not have as much distortion as Mercator, focuses on coastlines and oceans
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Describe the Mercator Projection
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Has great distortion at the poles, direction is true
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Describe the Van Der Griten Projection
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Shows an enlarged Russia and Europe
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What is simplifaction?
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It simplifies a map to make it easier (ex. territories on a map of Canada)
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What is a cartogram?
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A map in which some thematic mapping variable such as electoral votes is substituted for land
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What is GPS?
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Global Positioning System; uses satellites to determine exact locations on the global grid,latitude and longitude.
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What is GIS?
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Geographic Information Systems;computer program that can create a map in layers
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What does remote sensing do?
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Gathers information of a place without actually being there(uses pictures)
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