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What this episode covers
- Spatial thinking — the core skill of AP Human Geography
- Absolute vs. relative location; site vs. situation
- Types of maps: reference, thematic, choropleth, cartogram, dot density
- Map projections and their distortions
- Geographic tools: GIS, GPS, remote sensing
- Types of regions: formal, functional, vernacular/perceptual
- Diffusion types: contagious, hierarchical, stimulus, relocation
- Distance decay and space-time compression
- Environmental determinism vs. possibilism
- Scale of analysis and why it matters