AP Human Geography: Geography
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site ✔️✔️the physical characteristics of a place, such as the fact that NYC is located on a large,
deep water harbor, next to the Atlantic ocean
situation ✔️✔️refers to the place's interrelatedness with other places, NYC and New England,
port-of-call for Atlantic Circular Trade
absolute distance ✔️✔️in terms of linear units
relative distance ✔️✔️in terms of the degree of interaction between places or in units of time
traveled
distance decay ✔️✔️means that the further away different places are from a place of origin, the
less likely interaction will be with the original place
Tobler's Law ✔️✔️a principle that expresses relative distance, states that all places are
interrelated, but closer places are more related than further ones
friction of distance ✔️✔️the increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing
distance
, space-time compression ✔️✔️decresed time and relative distance between places
modes of transportation ✔️✔️airplanes, reduce travel time between two distant points, and as a
result increase interaction
central places ✔️✔️any node of human activity
Central Place Theory ✔️✔️developed in the 1930s by the German geographer Walter
Christaller, saw the economic world as an abstract spatial model, in which city location and the
level of urban economic exchange could be analyzed using central places within hexagonal
market areas, which overlapped each other at different scales
core and periphery ✔️✔️Mormon culture in Salt Lake City and the greater Western US
cluster ✔️✔️when things are grouped together
agglomeration ✔️✔️when clustering occurs purposefully around a central point or an
economic growth pole
random pattern ✔️✔️when there is no rhyme or reason to the distribution of a spatial
phenomenon
Questions with Verified Solutions
site ✔️✔️the physical characteristics of a place, such as the fact that NYC is located on a large,
deep water harbor, next to the Atlantic ocean
situation ✔️✔️refers to the place's interrelatedness with other places, NYC and New England,
port-of-call for Atlantic Circular Trade
absolute distance ✔️✔️in terms of linear units
relative distance ✔️✔️in terms of the degree of interaction between places or in units of time
traveled
distance decay ✔️✔️means that the further away different places are from a place of origin, the
less likely interaction will be with the original place
Tobler's Law ✔️✔️a principle that expresses relative distance, states that all places are
interrelated, but closer places are more related than further ones
friction of distance ✔️✔️the increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing
distance
, space-time compression ✔️✔️decresed time and relative distance between places
modes of transportation ✔️✔️airplanes, reduce travel time between two distant points, and as a
result increase interaction
central places ✔️✔️any node of human activity
Central Place Theory ✔️✔️developed in the 1930s by the German geographer Walter
Christaller, saw the economic world as an abstract spatial model, in which city location and the
level of urban economic exchange could be analyzed using central places within hexagonal
market areas, which overlapped each other at different scales
core and periphery ✔️✔️Mormon culture in Salt Lake City and the greater Western US
cluster ✔️✔️when things are grouped together
agglomeration ✔️✔️when clustering occurs purposefully around a central point or an
economic growth pole
random pattern ✔️✔️when there is no rhyme or reason to the distribution of a spatial
phenomenon
