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Ap Final Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Distance | the distance that can be measure with a standard unit of length |
| Absolute Location | the exact position of an object or place,measured within a grid system |
| Accesibility | the relative ease with which a destination may be reached from an other place |
| Anthropogenic | human induced changes on the enviroment |
| Azimuthal projection | a map projetion formed with a flat piece of paper on top of the globe |
| Breaking point | the outer edge of a citys sphere of influence or in retail the place to meet for resources |
| Carl Sauer | defined the cultrual landscape resulting from human and envioment interactions |
| Cartograms | maps that make an object the largest in scale to put emphazies |
| Cartography | the art of map making |
| Cloropleth Map | the map a person makes of a location in there mind |
| Complementarity | the actual relationship between two places like economic interactions |
| Connectivity | the degree of economic,social,cultural, or political connections between two places |
| Contagious diffusion | the spread of a disease innovation or ciltral traits through direct contact |
| Cultrual ecology | the study of the interactions between societes and the natural enviroment in which they live |
| Cultral Landscape | the human modified natrual landscape containg the imprint of a particular culture |
| Distance Decay effect | the decreaae in interacyion between two places as the distiance between them increases |
| Enviromental Geography | the intersection between human and physical geography studys the impact of humans on nature and vise versa |
| Expansion diffusion | the spread of ideas to surronding areas through contact and exchange |
| Fertile Cresent | streach from thw nile valley into syria and iraq where agriculture and civilization started in 8000 BC |
| Formal Region | Definiton of regions based on common themese like language climate etc |
| Friction distance | a measure of how much aboslute distance affects the interaction between two places |
| Fuller projection | mantains the size of land masses but changes direction |
| Functional Rehion | defenition of regions based on a comman function like the boundary line of a newspaper |
| Geographical infromational system | GIS set of computure tools to store geographic data |
| Global Positioning system | set of sateliites orbiting the earth to help dertmine location of objects |
| Gravity Model | a mathamatical formula that describes the level of interacion of two places based on size of population and distance |
| Hierarchical diffusion | a type of diffusion in which something is transmitted between places beacuse of a physical or clutral community between them |
| Human geography | the study of patterns and process related to human activity |
| International Date line | 180 merdian |
| Latitude | north to south of equator called parreles |
| Longitude | go east or west of prime merdian called meridians |
| Perceptual region | Highly indivulized of regions based on percieved commonalites |
| Peters projection | centered on africa |
| physical geography | the realm of geography that studies the structures processes distribution and changes through time on earths surface |
| Preference map | a map that displays individual preferences for certain places |
| qualatative data | based on interviews,observation words |
| quanataive data | mathamatical data |
| reference map | shows refrence to a place useful for finding landmarks |
| relative distance | the measure of distance that shows the amount of social cultrual and economic connectivity between places |
| Relocation diffusion | spreading of ideas through migration |
| Robinsion projection | minimizes erros in each distortion |
| site | the abosulte location of a place describe by physical and cultral characteristics |
| situation | the relative location of a place based on surronding characteristics |
| Spatial Diffusion | the ways in which ideas travel over space |
| thematic map | shows one or more variales |
| Arithmetic density | the number of people living in a gien unit area |
| baby boom | in 1940 and 1960 after World War 2 |
| Baby bust | 1960-1970 vitenam war |
| child mortatilty rate | the number of death oer thousand of children |
| cohort | a group with a common charcateristic |
| demography | the study of human population |
| thomas malthus | claims populattion grows exponteially food grows arthmetically |
| expontenional growth | grothw that occurs when a fixed percentage of people is added to a population growth |
| maternal mortality rate | number of death per thousand of women giving birth |
| Neo-Malthusian | population control programs to ensure food for future population |
| physilogical density | a ratio of human population of the area crop land used in susbstent argiculture |
| population density | the number of people in an area |
| population geography | a divison of human geography concerned with spatial variations in distribution growth and movments of population |
| rust belt | northern industrial areas ohio, michigan,etc people left for cheaper land |
| sun belt | sw and sec states |
| Acculturation |
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