AP Geography #1
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| show | Density is most often calculated by the number of things per square unit of distance.
Exactly where something is located on earth. Can also be a direct address.
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| show | The dominant core region (city) is where the main economic, political and cultural power is distributed. The outlying region or periphery has lesser economic and political power.
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| show | The natural landscape as modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group of society; the built environment.
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| show | The different ways and in which human phenomena diffuse spatially, or spread across the earth’s surface from its hearth. Types of diffusion are expansion, hierarchical, relocation, contagious and stimulus
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| show | The pattern in which the interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.
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| show | Geographic Information System
A computer program that stores geographic data and produces maps to show the data.
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| GPS | show 🗑
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| show | A mathematical model that is used in a number of different types of spatial analysis. This is used to calculate transportation flow between two points, determine the area of influence of a city’s businesses, and estimate the flow of immigrants to a place.
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| show | The relationship between distance on the map and the actual measurement in the real world
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| Map Types | show 🗑
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| Mental Map | show 🗑
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| Physiologic density | show 🗑
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| Place | show 🗑
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| show | A toponym is the name given to a place on earth.
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| show | A technique of obtaining information about objects through the study of data collected by special instruments that are not in physical contact with the objects being analyzed.
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| Space | show 🗑
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| show | North, south, east and west
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| show | The process of mapmaking
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| Cultural Ecology | show 🗑
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| show | Necessary error resulting from trying to represent the round, nearly spherical earth on a flat plane, or map.
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| Formal Region | show 🗑
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| show | Circles formed on the surface of the earth by a plane that passes through the center. The equator and every line of longitude paired with its twin on the opposite side of the earth form these. Any arc of a great circle shows the shortest distance between
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| show | Greenwich Mean Time
Baseline for time zones around the world, centered on the prime meridian; sometimes called the Universal time.
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| show | Branch of geography primarily concerned with analyzing the structures, processes, and location of human creations and interactions with the earth.
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| show | Northwest, southwest,
northeast, and southeast
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| show | Measured in degrees north and south from the equator, which is 0 degrees latitude. The North Pole is 90 degrees north latitude, and the South Pole is 90 degrees south latitude. These lines never intersect, so geographers often call them parallels.
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| Lines of Longitude | show 🗑
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| show | Theme in Geography involving the movement occurring in a space; movement of information, people, goods, and other phenomena
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| Perceptual or Vernacular Region | show 🗑
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| Relative Directions | show 🗑
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| Site | show 🗑
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| Situation | show 🗑
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| Space-time Compression | show 🗑
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| show | Outlook through which geographers identify, explain, and predict the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of different spaces.
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