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AP HumanGeoBasic:adp Test

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Von Thunene Model
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Gravity Model
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Small Scale
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Relative Distance
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Demographic transition model
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Friction of Distance
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Epidemiological Transition Model
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Situation
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Breaking Point
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Location charts
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International Date Line
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Model
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Spacial Diffusion
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Mercator projection
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Absolute location
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Accessibility
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Time Space Convergence
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Prime meridian
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Isoline
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Geoid
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A simplified abstraction of reality, structured to clarify casual relationships and to help geographers explain patterms , make decisions and predict future behaviors
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A true conformal cylindrical map projection particularly good for navigation because it maintains accurate direction.
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Spacial diffusion refers to the ways in which phenomenon such as tech innovations, cultural trends or even outbreaks of disease, travel over space
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Map line that connects points of equal or very similar values
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The exact position of an object or place, measured within some other place
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The actual shape of the earth which is round and oblate, or slightly squashed; the earths circumference is longer around the equator then it is around the meridians, from north south circumference
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Map scale ratio in which the ratio of units on the map to the units on the earth is quite small. Small scale maps usually depict large areas.
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The idea that distance between some places is actually shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction between those places
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Explains the location of ag activities in a commercial, profit making economy. Spatial competition allocates farming activities into rings around central mkt city with profit earning capability the determining force in how far crops locate from mkt.
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The line of longitude that marks where each new day begins entered on the 180th meridian
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On a map, a chart or graph that gives specific statistical information of a particular political nit or jurisdiction
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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; a place's spacial context
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A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places based on the size of their populations and their distance form each other
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An imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England which marks 0 degree of longitude
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A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between two places
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A measure of distance that includes the costs of overcoming the friction of absolute distance separating two places. Often relative distance describes the amount of social, cultural or economic connectivity between two places.
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The outer edge of a city's sphere of influence, used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's hinterlands that depends on the city for it's retail supply
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The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place
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changes in populaiton growth in industrializing countries; high birth and death rates followed by plunging death ratesresult-huge population gain followed by convergence of birth and death rates at low level
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The position of a place relative to the places around it.
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The spread of ideas, innovations, fashion or other phenomenon to surrounding areas through contact and exchange
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The number of people per unit area of arable land
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The population of a region expressed as a average per unit area.( population divided by number of square miles
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The diffusion of ideas, innovations, behaviors, and the like form one place to another through migration
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The actual or potential relationship between two places usually referring t economic interactions
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A thematic map in which the size of a chosen symbol such as a circle or a triangle indicates the relative magnitude of some statistical value for a given geographic region.
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Thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents or births.
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The costs involved in moving goods from one place to another
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A type of thematic map that transforms such space such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relative area

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