Linear evolution in cartography underlines the importance of turning points in the history of cartography. Thematic maps appeared for the first time in Europe during the Dark Ages. Cartography is a branch of Geographic Information Systems. None of the above. Geography does not contain its own particular set of phenomena but studies the spatial phenomena in the real world.
Relative location answers the question about the exact position of an individual object in space.
Distance decay describes the concept of diminishing distance as one gets closer to the destination point. A true direction is measured in angular degrees. Studies of very small regions are often referred to as microscale studies. If clustered point locations are dispersed in space they often follow random distribution. Functional association refers to the fact that some spatial phenomena may attract other phenomena that are in some ways complimentary in nature.