Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Test Test Questions – Flashcards
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The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. It looks at sources, diffusion routes and distributions of disease
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Medical Geography
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A worldwide outbreak of the disease
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Pandemics
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A regional outbreak of a disease
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Epidemic
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Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space
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Spatial perspective
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Location, Human-environment, Region, Place, Movement
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Five themes of geography
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How geographical position of people and things affects what happens and why
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Location
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An element of contemporary human geography that seeks answers to a wide range of questions
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Location Theory
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The relationship between humans and the physical world
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Human-environment interactions
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How geographers divide up the world
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Region
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Uniqueness of a location
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Place
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Your feeling/meaning of a place
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Sense of Place
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Belief or understanding about a place
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Perception of place
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The mobility of people, goods, and ideas
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Movement
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The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places.
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Fieldwork
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How people make places organize space and society, interact with each other in places across space and make sense of other and ourselves in our locality, region, and world
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Human Geography
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A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders.
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Globalization
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The study of physical phenomena on Earth
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Physical Geography
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Pertaining to space on the Earths surface, sometimes used as a synonym for geographic
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Spatial
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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space
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Spatial Distribution
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Cultural succession and its lasting imprint
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Sequent occupance
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The material character of a place. The features, structures, and particular form
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Landscape
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The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
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Cultural Landscape
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The art and science of making maps
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Cartography
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Show locations of places and geographic features
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Reference Maps
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Tell stories, showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon
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Thematic Maps
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Accuracy, Specifically longitude and latitude
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Absolute Locations
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Regions marked by visible uniformity and characteristics
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Formal Region
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Allows us to locate things on the surface of the Earth with true accuracy
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Global positioning system (GPS)
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A hunt for a cache whose coordinates are places on the internet by other geocachers
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Geocaching
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Describes a place in relation to other human and physical features
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Relative location
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How you imagine a certain place to be
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Mental maps
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The places we travel to routinely
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Activity spaces
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Generalize
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Generalize
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A general map
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Generalized maps
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Intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in geography
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Perceptual regions
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A device used to compare a variety of spatial data in computers
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Geographic Information Sensing (GIS)
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Data is collected from satellites and aircraft and is instantaneously available
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Remote Sensing
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The product of interactions of movements of various kinds
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Functional Region
