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AP Human Geo Vocab
Vocabulary from BARRON'S 4th Edition *Unfinished
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Distance | A distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer. |
Absolute Location | The exact position of an object or place, measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system. |
Accessibility | The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place. |
Anthropogenic | Human-induced changes on the natural environment. |
Azimuthal projection | A map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface. |
Breaking Point | 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 depend on that city for its retail supplies. |
Carl Sauer | Defined cultural landscape; it results from interaction between humans and the physical environment. No landscape has escaped alteration by human activities. |
Cartograms | A type of thematic map that transforms space such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relative area. |
Cartography | The theory and practice of making visual representations of Earth's surface in the form of maps. |
Choropleth map | A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area. |
Cognitive map | An image of a portion of Earth's surface that an individual creates in his/her mind. These maps can include knowledge of actual locations and relationships among locations as well as personal perceptions and preferences of particular places. |
Complementarity | The actual or potential relationship between two places, usually referring to economic interactions. |
Connectivity | The degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places. |
Contagious diffusion | The spread of a disease, innovation, or cultural traits through direct contact with another person or another place. |