GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Weather Balloon, Computer Hardware, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
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A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the areas or object of study. A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user. Involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative formal region. A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena (uniform, homogenous) Ex: french-speaking region of europe, rocky mountain region. Ex: agricultural practices -> shared trait functional region. A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. 12 major perceptual regions in us (zelinsky) The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
