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WGU C255 Terms Questions and Answers Location ✔✔The place where a thing is; it can be defined absolutely or relatively Absolute Location ✔✔The location of a place as pinpointed in terms of ... the global geographic grid Relative Location ✔✔The location of a place relative to other places Place ✔✔Place is a concept that refers to the wide range of human activities and humanenvironment interactions that occur in a particular location. Human-Environment Interaction ✔✔The direct connections between humans and our biophysical world. Movement ✔✔The core idea that human beings and all animal life are always in motion. Region ✔✔A territory that exhibits a certain uniformity Formal Region ✔✔A region defined by essential uniformity in one or more physical or cultural features Functional Region ✔✔A region defined by interaction among places, such as trade and communication Perceptual (Vernacular) Region ✔✔A region defined by widespread popular conception of its existence North American Region ✔✔United States and Canada Latin American Region ✔✔Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean Islands European Region ✔✔Europe Northern Eurasia Region ✔✔Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Central Asia and Afghanistan Region ✔✔Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan The Middle East and Northern Africa Region (MENA) ✔✔Composed of countries that cluster around the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf Sub-Saharan Africa Region ✔✔The majority of Africa;Poorest region in the world South Asia Region ✔✔India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives;Second poorest region East Asia Region ✔✔China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan South-East Asia Region ✔✔Myanmar (Burma), Laow, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste Oceania Region ✔✔Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands Geography ✔✔The study of the interaction of all physical and human phenomena at individual places and of how interactions among places form patterns and organize space Physical Geography ✔✔The study of the characteristics of the physical environment Human Geography ✔✔The study of the geography of human groups and activities Cartography ✔✔The study of maps and making Remote Sensing ✔✔The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from high-flying aircraft Geographic information system (GIS) ✔✔A computer system used to organize, store, analyze, and display geographic information Regional Geography ✔✔An inventory analysis of all characteristics of any individual place Topical (Systematic) Geography ✔✔The study of universal laws or principles that apply to all places; topics may be as diverse as the geography of soils (pedology), of life forms (biogeography), of politics (political geography), of economic activities (economic geography), and of cities (urban geography) Spatial Analysis ✔✔An approach to geographic inquiry focusing on patterns in the distribution of human actions, environmental processes, and interactions among and between places or regions Distribution ✔✔The position, placement, or arrangement of a phenomenon in space Density ✔✔The frequency of occurrence of a phenomenon in space, in relation to its geographic area Concentration ✔✔An aspect of the distribution of a phenomenon within a given area Pattern ✔✔The arrangement of objects within an area Distance ✔✔The extent of space between two objects or places; it can be measured absolutely, in terms of miles or kilometers, or in ter [Show More]

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