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Term | Definition |
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Absolute Disance | a distance that can be measured with a standard unit of lengh such as a mile or kilo |
Absolute location | exact positio ofan object or place measured withing the seperation coordinates of a grid system |
Accessibility | the relative cause with which a destination may be reached from some other place. |
Anthropogenic | humn induced changes on the natural enviroment. |
azimuthal projection | a map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface |
Breaking point | the outer edge of a citys sphere of influence used inthe law of retail gravatation to describe the area of citys hinterlands that depend on that city for its retail supplies |
Carl Sauer | geogropher from the univessity of california at Berkely who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographic analysis |
cartograms | a type of thematic map that transform space such that te political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented b the largeest rlative area |
Cartogrophy | map making |
choropleth map | a thematic ap that uses tomes or color to represent spatial data asavrage values per unit area |
Cognitive map | an image of a portion of Earths surfce that a individual creates to his or her mind. |
complementary | the actual or potential relationship between two placs, usually referring to economic interactons |
Connectivity | the degree of economic,social, cultural, or political connection between two places |
Contagious diffusion | The spread of a diseas an innovation or cultural trains through direst contact with another person or another place |
coordinate system | a standard grid composed of lines of latitude nd longitude used to determine the absolute locationo any object place or feature |
cultural ecology | the study of the interations between societes and the natural enviroment theu live in |
cultural landscape | the hman modifie naturallandscape specifiacally containing the imprint ofa particulr cultue or socity |
Distanc decay efects | the decrease in interaction beween two phenomena, plces or people as the distance betwee them inceases |
Dot maps | thematicmapsth use oito show the presice locatio of specif |