AP Human Exam Vocab Unit 1

a distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer

• distance decay

• absolute location

• absolute distance

• time space compression

the exact position of an object or place, measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system

• absolute location

• location

• absolute distance

• connectivity

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

• rescources

• accessibility

• availability

• environmental geography

to come together into a mass, sum, or whole

• region

• unite

• large scale

• aggregation

a map projection in which the plane is the most developable surface

• azimuthal projection

• mercator projection

• map projection

• peters projection

the outer edge of a city's sphere of influence, used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's hinterlands that depend on that city for its retail supplies

• perceptual region

• rust belt

• shatterbelt

• breaking point

a type of thematic map that transforms space such as the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relevant area

• cartography

• cartograms

• coordinate system

• map scale

the theory and practice of making visual representations of Earth's surface in the form of maps

• Geology
• Astronomy
• Botany
• Cartography

a thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit

• Dot density map
• Choropleth map
• Heat map
• Gradient map

an image of a portion of Earth's surface that an individual creates in his or her mind. Can include knowledge of actual locations and relationships among locations as well as personal perceptions and preferences of particular places

• Mind map
• Mental map
• Cognitive map

• choloropleth map