GEOG101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: International Date Line, Choropleth Map, Distance Decay

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Brent Doberstein

Document Summary

List of vocabs to know for geog 101 midterm #1. Phenomenon: any atribute that can be considered geographically. Cognate: a discipline that is some way ailiated with a branch of human geography. Process: an acion that brings about a paricular patern. Mulivariate: processes that may involve several diferent factors (can be hard to untangle the relaive signiicance of each) Muliscalar: taking place at diferent spaial scales. Absolute locaion: dictates where each point is on a reference system (eg. township, range, secion, street addresses) Geographical coordinate system: a type of reference system in which each place is given a unique value based on its laitude and longitude. Relaive locaion: the locaion of a place compared to others. Laitude: a measured distance north or south of the equator, with the north and south poles as key references points. Longitude: a measured distance east and west of the prime meridian.