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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| Absolute direction | show 🗑
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| show | Directions such as left, right, forward, backward, up, and down based on people's perception of places
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A measure of distance that includes absolute distance separating two places. Often relative distance describes the amount of social, cultural, or economic connectivity between two places.
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The relative size or extent of something.
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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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| Map Projection | show 🗑
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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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Map with continuous lines joining points of the same value
An isoline map with continuous lines joining points of the same value. Examples would be equal altitude(contour lines), temperature(isotherms), etc.
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“An image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual’s perception, impression, and knowledge of that space which includes your activity space, where you do your daily activities, and terra incognita, or unknown space” (Blij,
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| Time zones | show 🗑
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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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| Remote sensing | show 🗑
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| built/cultural landscape | show 🗑
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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 | show 🗑
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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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an influence of the rate of expansion diffusion of an idea, observing that the spread or acceptance of an idea is usually displayed as distance from the source of the innovation increases
Space time compression is the increasing sense of connectivity t
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the spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others
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| hearth | show 🗑
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| relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| expansion diffusion | show 🗑
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| Hierarchical diffusion | show 🗑
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| contagious diffusion | show 🗑
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| stimulus diffusion | show 🗑
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Arrangement of features in space; three main properties: density, concentration, pattern
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| density | show 🗑
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| arithmetic density | show 🗑
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the total population divided by the area of arable land (land fit for crops)
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| show | people, culture and ideas spread beyond the country in which they originate, are not concentrated in one particular area. Concentration=cultures, ideas and people remain in one place, don't spread and remain endemic to the place in which they originate.
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Not close to each other, spread out; when a population is dispersed the density is low
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| show | agglomartion is an extended town area consisting of the built up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area. A cluster is a grouping of similar items.
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an area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.
The area of earth distinguished by distinctive combination of cultural and physical feature
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| functional/nodal region | show 🗑
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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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One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human populations, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
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| models | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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