APHUGE VOCAB QUIZ 1
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| show | A point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude
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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| show | The absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics
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| show | The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system
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| show | Absolute direction is the direction on a compass in reference to a map.
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| show | Directions such as left, right, forward, backward, up, and down based on people's perception of places
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A measure of distance that includes absolute distance separating two places. Often relative distance describes the amount of social, cultural, or economic connectivity between two places.
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Map Scale | show 🗑
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| Map Projection | show 🗑
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| Distortion | show 🗑
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| Grid | show 🗑
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| show | Shows the location of the geographic areas for which census data are tabulated and disseminated. The maps display the boundaries, names, and unique identifiers of standard geographic areas., as well as major cultural and physical features, such as roads,
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A thematic map is a type of map especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city,
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| show | A dot map uses a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in order to depict variation in density in a given area.
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A map that uses differences in shading or variation of the same color to represent the distribution of some property, such as population density or annual percipitation.
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| Mental Map | show 🗑
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| show | Literal definition: a range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
Basically:The world is separated into 24 sections to give each section as accurate a time of day as possible
There are 24 time zones separated by approximately fifteen degre
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| show | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user.
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| show | The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a
space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satell
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A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g. satelites) that are physically distant from the area or object of study.
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the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
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an area in which the land and the elements on the land are unaffected by human interaction
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The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over the various aspects of human life, including cultural development. Also referred to as environmentalism. (Blij, Murphy, Fouberg A-21).
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Spatial interaction is a dynamic flow process from one location to another. It is a general concept that may refer to the movement of human beings such as intra urban commuters or intercontinental migrants but may also refer to traffic in goods such as
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| spatial perspective | show 🗑
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| distance decay | show 🗑
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The increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance. As distance increases, people are less likely to be willing to migrate or move to that destination.
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the spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others
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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.
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When an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while continuing to spread outward.
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A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the places or people. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leap-frogging of innovations over wide areas, with geographic distance a less important influ
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| show | the distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-analogous to the communication of a contagious illness
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diffusion in which one people receives a culture element from another but gives it a new and unique form.
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| distribution | show 🗑
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| show | Shows the frequency of something occurring across the earths surface (like humans)
-Frequency with which something occurs in space
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| arithmetic density | show 🗑
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| Physiological density | show 🗑
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| show | people, culture and ideas spread beyond the country in which they originate, are not concentrated in one particular area. Concentration=cultures, ideas and people remain in one place, don't spread and remain endemic to the place in which they originate.
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| Dispersed/ scattered | show 🗑
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| show | agglomartion is an extended town area consisting of the built up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area. A cluster is a grouping of similar items.
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| region | show 🗑
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| formal/ uniform regions | show 🗑
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| show | An area characterized by its function.
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| perceptual/ vernacular region | show 🗑
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| show | an organization of earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed different from other areas.
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One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human populations, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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