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AP Human Geography Crash Course
absolute location - ✅✅ -described by something's location on the global grid,
the intersection of latitude and longitude

azimuthal projections - ✅✅ -flat-plan constructed maps of each hemisphere with
direction being accurate and great circles being evident

Bid-Rent Curve - ✅✅ -bid-rent curves showing variations in rent different users
willing to pay for land at different distances from some peak point of accessibility
and visibility in market, often CBD

Borchert's Model of Urban Evolution - ✅✅ -Borchert creating model in 1960s to
predict and explain growth of cities in four phases of transportation history: stage
one, "sail wagon" era of 1790-1830, stage two, "iron horse" era of 1830-1870,
stage three, "steel rail" epoch of 1870-1920, and stage four, current era of car
and air travel beginning after 1920

cartogram -✅✅-map using space on map to show particular variable
cartographers - ✅✅-choosing which properties of maps to distort by thinking
about map's purpose

cartography -✅✅-process of making map
Central Place Theory - ✅✅-developed in 1930s by Walter Christaller, model
explaining and predicting patterns of urban places across map

choropleth thematic maps - ✅✅ -showing patterns of some variable using colors
or degrees of shading, such as population density

cognitive (mental) maps - ✅✅ -drawn from memory and often reflecting spatial
perceptions of those drawing them

compromise - ✅✅-projection neither equal area nor conformal

, Concentric Zone Model - ✅✅ -model devised in 1920s by Ernest Burgess to
predict and explain growth patterns of North American urban spaces

conformal - ✅✅-accurately representing shape of landforms, but not equal in
area because sizes of sizes of landforms being drastically distorted (Greenland,
for example, being far larger on map than it should be)

cultural ecology - ✅✅-study of aspects and outcomes of human-environment
interaction

Demographic Transition Model (DTM) - ✅✅ -in four stages of transition from
agricultural subsistence economy to industrialized economy, demographic
patterns moving from extremely high birth rates to low birth and death rates

direction - ✅✅
-referring to degree of accuracy representing cardinal directions,
north, south, east, west, and their intermediate directions, northwest, northeast,
southwest, and southeast

distance -✅✅-referring to represented distance between objects on map
distance decay - ✅✅-occurring when intensity of some phenomenon decreases
as distance from it increases

✅✅-error resulting from flattening (or projection) process
distortion -

dot density maps - ✅✅-thematic maps using equally-sized dots to represent
frequency of variable in given area

Epidemiologic Transition Model - ✅✅-disease vulnerability shifting in patterns
similar to DTM

equal area - ✅✅ -(equivalent) accurately representing actual area of landforms,
but distorting other properties (like shape)

equidistant - ✅✅-projections mainting distance, but distorting other properties

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