APHUGE VOCAB QUIZ 1
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| Absolute location | show 🗑
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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| show | The absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics
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| show | 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
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| Toponym | show 🗑
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| show | Absolute direction is the direction on a compass in reference to a map.
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| Relative Direction | show 🗑
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The distance that can be measured with a standerd unit of length
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| Relative Distance | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| show | Refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground.
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a method for representing part of the surface of the earth or a celestial sphere on a plane surface
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| Distortion | show 🗑
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| Grid | show 🗑
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| Reference Map | show 🗑
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| Thematic Map | show 🗑
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| Cartogram | show 🗑
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| show | A dot map uses a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in order to depict variation in density in a given area.
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| Choropleth Map | show 🗑
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| Isoline Map | show 🗑
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| Mental Map | show 🗑
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| show | Literal definition: a range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
Basically:The world is separated into 24 sections to give each section as accurate a time of day as possible
There are 24 time zones separated by approximately fifteen degre
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | show 🗑
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| show | The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a
space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satell
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A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g. satelites) that are physically distant from the area or object of study.
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the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
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| Sequent occupance | show 🗑
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| natural/physical landscapeq | show 🗑
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| environmental determinism | show 🗑
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Spatial interaction is a dynamic flow process from one location to another. It is a general concept that may refer to the movement of human beings such as intra urban commuters or intercontinental migrants but may also refer to traffic in goods such as
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| show | The way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of various spaces.
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| show | Distance decay describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions. The distance decay effect states that the interaction between two locales declines as the distance between them increases. Once the distance is outside of the two locales
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| friction of distance | show 🗑
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| time space compression | show 🗑
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| diffusion | show 🗑
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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.
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The actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation, and who carry it to a new location, where they proceed to spread it.
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| expansion diffusion | show 🗑
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| Hierarchical diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | the distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-analogous to the communication of a contagious illness
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| stimulus diffusion | show 🗑
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| distribution | show 🗑
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| density | show 🗑
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the number of people divided by the area of land (measured in square miles or square kilometers)
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| Physiological density | show 🗑
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| Dispersion v Concentration | show 🗑
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Not close to each other, spread out; when a population is dispersed the density is low
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| Clustered/ agglomerated | show 🗑
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| region | show 🗑
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| formal/ uniform regions | show 🗑
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| show | An area characterized by its function.
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A region that only exists as an idea and not as a physical place.
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| regionalization | show 🗑
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| human geography | show 🗑
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| models | show 🗑
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The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. (How humans adjust to the challenges posed by the physical environment.)
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