APHUG Unit 1

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Accessibility

The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place

Cartogram

A type of thematic map that transforms space such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is rep. by the largest relative area.

Complementary

The actual or potential relationsip between two places, usually economic

Connectivity

The degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two phases.

Distance Decay Effect

The decrease in interaction between two phenomena, places, or people as the distance between them increases.

Dot Maps

thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents, or births.

Earth System Science

a systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between Earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale.

Environmental Geography

the intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa.

Friction of distance

a measure of how much absolute distance affects the interactions between two places.

GIS

A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data.

Hierarchical Diffusion

the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places

Idiographic

pertaining to the unique facts of characteristics of a particular place.

Isoline

a map line that connects points of equal or very similar values.

Law of retail gravitation

a law stating that people will be drawn to larger cities to conduct their business since larger cities have a wider influence on the surrounding hinterlands.

Marsh, George Perkins

an inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar, his classic work" Man and Nature, or Physical Geography a Modifies by Human Action" provided the first description of the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human actions.

Pattison, WD

he claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions; the earth science tradition, the culture-environment tradition, the locational tradition, and the area-analysis tradition.

Perceptual Region

highly individualized definition of regions based on perceived commonalities in culture and landscapes.

Physical Geography

the realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and changes through time of the natural phenomena of Earth's surface.

Proportional Symbols Map

a thematic map in which the size of the chosen symbol-such as a circle or triangle- indicates the relative magnitude of some statistical value for a given geographic region.

Reference Map

a map type that shows reference information for a particular place, making it useful for finding landmarks and for navigation.

Region

a territory that encompasses many places that share similar physical and or cultural attributes.

Regional Geography

The study of geographic regions

Sense of place

feelings evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place.

Site

the absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics.

Situation

the relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area and the connections and interdependence is within that system; a place's spatial context.

Spatial Diffusion

the map in which phenomena such as technological innovations, cultural trends, or even outbreaks of disease, travel over space.

Spatial Perspective

an intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of a specific phenomenon, how and why that phenomenon is where it is, and finally how it is spatially related to phenomenon in other places.

Thematic Maps

individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a Geographical Information System to understand and analyze a spatial relationship.

topographic space

the amount of connectivity between places regardless of the absolute distance separating them.

Acculturation

the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct culture features.

Contagious Diffusion

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Cultural Ecology

Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.

Diffusion

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

Distance Decay

the diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

Expansion Diffusion

the spread of a feature or trend among people form one area to another in an additive process

Functional Region

An area organized around a node or focal point

Participatory GIS

Community-based mapping, representing local knowledge and information.

Pattern

The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area.

Space-Time Compression

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems

Spatial Association

The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature.

Vernacular Region

an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity