Use of aircraft and satellites to observe and measure the earth’s surface

Photographic images, Thermal images, Multispectral scanners, radar images

A device that senses and records datat about light of different wavelengths

The study of the impact humans have on the physical environment, and the environment’s impact on human

A period in human geography associated with the widespread adoption of mathematical models and statistical techniques.

the study of geographic regions

A Roman geography and astronomer who wrote a Guide to Geography with longitude and latitude

Associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial location and association

Claimed geography comes from earth-science tradition, culture-environment tradition, locational tradition, and area-analysis tradition

physical geography

environmental geography

spatial analysis, mapping, quantitative analysis

regional geography

an area with common features that set it apart from other areas

data associated with a humanistic approach to geography and is collected through interviews, empirical observations or interpretation of artifact

A geography at UCB who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the basic unit of geographical analysis

Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the moon and sun

A systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth’s physical system and process on a global scale (holistic)

A group of satellites used to help determine a location anywhere on the earth’s surface with a portable electronic device

A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic information

Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C.

A culture’s effect on landscape

A holistic study of an environment including both society and nature

Human-caused changes on nature

Representing geography through maps

Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a GPS to understand and analyze a spatial relationship

exist in the minds of people (perceptual regions)

Feelings associated with experience and memories associated with a particular place

An intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of specific phenomena (how, why,where, and in relation to what)

The study of earth’s integrated systems as a whole, instead of focusing on single phenomena

The concept of using the earth’s resources to provide for the present and the future

the study of physical features of the earth’s surface, and how it has changed

Concepts or rules that can be applied universally.

The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activity

Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place

An inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, who wrote “Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as modified by human action”