BARRON'S APHG CHAPTER 2 VOCABULARY by Deja, Jennie, & Jimmy
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| the distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer | show 🗑
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| show | absolute location
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| show | accessibility
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| show | azimuthal projection
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| show | breaking point
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| show | cartograms
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| a thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area | show 🗑
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| show | cognitive map
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| show | complementary
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| the degree of of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places | show 🗑
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| show | contagious diffusion
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| show | coordinate system
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| the decrease in interaction between two phenomena,places, or people as the distance between them increases | show 🗑
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| show | dot maps
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| show | expansion diffusion
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| a measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between two places | show 🗑
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| a type of map projection that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses but completely rearranges direction such that the four cardinal directions - north, south, east, and west - no longer have any meaning | show 🗑
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| show | geoid
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| based on Isaac Newtpn's law of universal gravitation. the degree to which objects are attracted to each other by gravity is the result of the product of their respective masses, divided the square of their distance apart | show 🗑
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| anything in the landscape, real or perceived, that is potentially threatening; avoided in spatial behavior | show 🗑
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| show | hierarchial diffusion
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| the line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered in the 180th meridian | show 🗑
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| the idea that one place has a demand for some good or service and two places have a supply of equal price and quality, then the closer of the two suppliers to the buyer will represent this | show 🗑
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| show | isolines
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| show | latitude
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| show | large-scale
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| show | law of retial gravitation
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| show | location charts
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| the angular distance east or west of the prime meridian; meridian | show 🗑
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| show | map projections
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| show | mental map
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| show | mercator projection
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| a line of longitude that runs north-south. all lines of longitude are equal in length and intersect at the poles | show 🗑
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| an east-west line of latitude that runs parallel to the equator and that marks the distance north or south of the equator | show 🗑
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| show | peter's map projection
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| a map that displays individual preferences for certain places | show 🗑
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| an imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which marks the 0 degree line of longitude | show 🗑
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| a map in which a chosen symbol indicates a relative magnitude of some value for a given geographic region | show 🗑
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| maps for locating and navigating between places | show 🗑
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| show | relative distance
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| show | relative location
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| the diffusion of ideas, innovations, behaviors, and the like from one place to another through migration | show 🗑
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| a map'd smallest discernable unit | show 🗑
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| projection that doesn't maintain accurate area, shape, distance, or direction but minimizes errors in each | show 🗑
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| the ratio between the size of an area on a map and the acutal size of that same area on the earth's surface | show 🗑
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| show | site
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| the relative location of place in relaton to the physical and cultural characterisitcis of the surrounding area and the connections and interdepedence within rhat system | show 🗑
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| ratio between map units and ground units is small | show 🗑
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| describes the ways in which phenomena such as technological innovation, cultural trends, or even outbreaks of disease travel over space | show 🗑
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| when a trait of one culture prompts invention or innovation in another | show 🗑
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| show | thematic map
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| idea that states with increasing transportation and communication technology, the absolute distance between certain places is shrinking | show 🗑
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| show | topographic maps
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| the amount of connectivity between places, regardless of the absolute distance separating them | show 🗑
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| show | transferability
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| use sophisticated software to create dynamic computer maps, some of 3D or interactive | show 🗑
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