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Aggregation
To come together into a mass, sum, or whole.
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Anthropogenic
Human-induced changes on the natural environment.
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Azimuthal Projection
A map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface.
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Breaking Point
The outer edge of a city’s sphere of influence, used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of the city’s hinterlands that depend on that city for it's retail supplies.
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Cartogram Map
A type of thematic map
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Chloropleth Map
Uses colors and tones to represent data
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Contagious Diffusion
The spread of a disease, an innovation, or cultural traits through direct contact with another person or place
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Cultural Ecology
The study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments in which they live.
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Dot Maps
Used to show specific observations and occurrences. Crimes, car accidents, births
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Expansion Diffusion
The spread of ideas, innovation, fashion, other phenomena to surrounding areas through contact and exchange
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Formal Region
Definition of regions based on common themes such as similarities in language, climate, land use, etc
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Fuller Projection
Maintains accurate shape and size but cardinal directions no longer have any meaning
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Functional Region
Definition of regions based on common interaction (circulation of a particular newspaper)
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GIS
Geographical Information System - computer tools to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data
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Geoid
Actual shape of Earth, it's slightly squashed from top to bottom
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GPS
Global Positioning System - Satellites to determine locations
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Hierarchical Diffusion
A type of diffusion in which something is transmitted between places because of physical or cultural connections
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Isoline
A map line that connects points of equal or very similar values (think topographic map)
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Mercator Projection
Useful for navigation, had distortion at the poles
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Perceptual Region
Individualized definitions of regions based preconceived notions
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Peters Projection
Centered on Africa, equal area projection
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Proportional Symbols Map
The chosen symbol represents a statistic and gets bigger and smaller depending
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Relocation Diffusion
The diffusion of ideas, innovation, etc through migration
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Remote Sensing
The observation and mathematical measurement of Earth’s surface using aircraft and satellites. The sensors include photographic images, thermal images, multispectral scanners, and radar images.
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Resolution
A map’s smallest discernable unit
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Robinson Projection
It does not maintain area, shape, distance, or direction accurately but minimizes errors in each
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Site
The absolute Location, characteristics of the absolute place
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Situation
The relative location, how to connects and depends on other areas.
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