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7425055517 | Place | A portion of space avaible or desighnated for of being used by someone | 0 | |
7425055518 | Model | a system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate. | 1 | |
7425055519 | Isoline Map | A thematic map with lines that connect points of equal value. | 2 | |
7425055520 | Toponym | A plane name especially one derived from a tropgraphic feature | 3 | |
7425055521 | remote sensing | A scanning of the eath by satelite or high flying aircraft in order to obain info. about it. | 4 | |
7425055522 | Relative distance | A measuse of the social cultured and economic relatedness or connectmity between two places | 5 | |
7425055523 | Possibilism | Culture geography is the theory that the enviroment sets certain constaints or limitabtions but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions | 6 | |
7425055524 | physiological density | Real pop. density is # of people per unit area or arable land | 7 | |
7425055525 | Statistical Map | A special type of map in which the varition in quantity of a fador such as rainfall pop. or crops in geograpic area | 8 | |
7425055526 | Spatial Interaction | The moverment of people goods and ideas within and across geographic space. | 9 | |
7425055527 | Peters map projection | Attemps to reflect accurately the relative surface areas of landmass | 10 | |
7425055528 | thematic map | a map that shows a particular theme, or topic such. As the average disturibution or rainfall in a area | 11 | |
7425055529 | Natural landscape | The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities. | 12 | |
7425055530 | Mercador map projection | A cylindrical map projection | 13 | |
7425055531 | Mental map | a person's point-of-view perception of their area of interaction. | 14 | |
7425055532 | linear pattern | a pattern that is along straight lines, like rivers, streets, on railroad tracks | 15 | |
7425055533 | large scale map | A small area but it shows it in greats | 16 | |
7425055534 | Hierarchical Diffusion | Spread of an idea though physical movement from one place to another | 17 | |
7425055535 | sequent occupance | The notion that successive societies leave their culture imprints on a place each contributation to the cumulative cultural landscape | 18 | |
7425055536 | Scale | Scale of a map to the ratio of a distance on the map to the cornesponing distanceb on the ground | 19 | |
7425055537 | Site | The relative location or a place decribed by local relief landforms other cultural or physical characteristics | 20 | |
7425055538 | relocation diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another | 21 | |
7425055539 | random pattern | a pattern that has no regular distortion that can be seen | 22 | |
7425055540 | Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | 23 | |
7425055541 | Time zones | a range of longitudes where a common standard time is used | 24 | |
7425055542 | Time space compression/ conver gence | Phenomemon that alters the qualites of and relationship between space and time | 25 | |
7425055543 | Stimulus diffusion | spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected | 26 | |
7425055544 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects | 27 | |
7425055545 | small scale map | Map scale ratio of units on the map to units the earth is quite small | 28 | |
7425055546 | situation | the relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural charactists or the surrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system | 29 | |
7425055547 | Robinson map projection | Shows entire world at once | 30 |