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AP human barons 1
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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