APHUG Unit 1 (1.4)

Absolute Location

The exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude.

Relative Location

A description of where a place is in relation to other places or features.

Place

A location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics

Flow

Movement of people, goods or information that has economic, social, political, or cultural effects on socieities.

Distance Decay

Principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have.

Friction of distance

A concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve.

Time-space compression

A key geographic principle that describes the ways in which modern transportation and communication technology have allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances more quickly and easily.

Pattern

The way in which things are arranged in a particular space.

Location

The position that a point or object occupies on earth.

Site

A place’s absolute location, as well as it’s physical characteristics, such as landforms, climate, and resources.

Situation

Location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features.

Mental Maps

Internalized representations of portions of the Earth surface.