Final Review APHUG Flashcards
Situation
The location of a place relative to other places
cartography
map making
distortion
The misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements
projection
presenting a curved surface on a flat area
Types of projections
Formal Regions
an area within which everyone shares distinctive characteristics
Functional Region
an area organized around a node or a focal point
Vernacular Regions
An area that people believe exist as part of their cultural identity. (Comes from memory)
Hearth
The region from which innovative ideas originate
distance-decay
as the distance between two places increases, the interaction between those two places decreases
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 system
density
the number of people who live in a defined land area (usually square miles or square kilometers)
concentration
the extent of a feature’s spread over space
scale
the proportion that relates the dimensions of the map to the dimensions of the area it represents
map scale
refers to the relationship of a feature’s length on a map to its actual distance on Earth
