AP HUG – Geography – Flashcards
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| Spatial Thinking |
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| Understanding the pattern and distribution of objects and analyzing their relationships, conectedness, movement, growth, and change across space and overtime |
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| Place |
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| an are of bounded space of some human importance |
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| Regions |
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| An area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.; |
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| sequent occupancy |
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| the succession of groups and cultural influences throughout a place's history |
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| map scale |
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| ratio of distance on a map and distance in the real world in absolute terms |
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| level of aggregation |
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| the level at which you group things together for examination |
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| Fieldwork |
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| A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reacctions vary. |
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| Human Geography |
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| The study of how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localtiy, region, and world. |
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| Globalization |
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| A set of processes that are increasing interactions, interpendence without regard to country borders. |
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| Physical Geography |
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| The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth's natural phenomena. |
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| Spatial |
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| How something is laid out; space on Earth's surface. |
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| Spatial Distribution |
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| Physical location of geographic phenomena across space. |
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| Pattern |
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| The design of spatial distribution |
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| Medical Geography |
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| The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective; looking at sources, diffusion routes, and distribution of disease. |
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| Pandemics |
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| A worldwide outbreak of disease. |
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| Epidemic |
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| Regional outbreak of disease |
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| Spatial Perspective |
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| Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space |
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| Location |
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| The geographical situation of people and things |
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| Location Theory |
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| A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of the economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated |
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| Accessibility |
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| The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certian location from other locations |
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| Connectivity |
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| The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network |
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| Landscape |
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| Material character of a place, complex of natural featues, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place its form |
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| Cultural Landscape |
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| The visible imprint of human activity ona landscape |
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| Thematic Maps |
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| Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon |
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| Absolute Locations |
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| The position of place of a certian item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, and longitude |
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) |
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| Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geograpic features |
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| Geocaching |
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| A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers |
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| Relative Location |
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| The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places |
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| Activity Space |
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| The space within which daily activity occurs |
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| Remote Sensing |
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| A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study |
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) |
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| A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user |
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| Formal Region |
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| A uniform region |
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| Functional Region |
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| Defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it |
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| Perceptual Region |
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| A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity |
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| Culture |
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The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society |
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| Cultural Trait |
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| A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban |
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| Cultural Complex |
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| A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils |
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| Independent Invention |
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| The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other |
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| Cultural Diffusion |
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| The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area |
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| Cultural Barriers |
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| Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certian innovations; ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture |
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| Expansion DIffusion |
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| The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger |
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| Contagious Diffusion |
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| The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person |
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| Hierarchial Diffusion |
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| An idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples |
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| Stimulus Diffusion |
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| A cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place |
