AP Human Geography Key Issues 1,2 and 3 – Flashcards
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What time is Space-time Compression?
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The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.
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In what ways is globalization of culture manifested in the landscape?
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It causes a landscape to be arranged a certain way.
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Identify four ways in which places can receive names
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-Being named after a person -names associated with religion -Being named after an obscure person -names deriving from features of the physical environment
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What place is designed at 0 degrees longitude?
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The royal observatory at Greenwich England
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One contemporary (current) approach to studying landscape is called the Regional Studies Approach. What do geographers who adopt this view believe regarding regions?
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They defined a cultural landscape as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group.
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Geographers using the regional studies approach argue that the distinctive landscapes of different regions result in which two things?
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Social Relationships and Physical Processes.
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Vernacular (perpetual) Regions
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The place people believe exists as part of a culture of their cultural identity.
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Functional (nodal) Regions
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A region created by the interactions between a central point or "node" and surrounding location.
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Formal (uniform) regions
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Area within which shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics or traits.
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Give some examples of things that barrier interaction among groups
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Oceans, deserts, languages and traditions.
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Describe Distance Decay
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The diminishing importance and eventual disappearance of phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
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What is the name for the line at 0 degrees longitude?
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The Equator
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How many time zones are there?
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There are 24 Time Zones.
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What is the name of the line drawn at 0 degrees longitude?
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The Prime Meridian
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List Two Different Types of Pattern
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Linear, Geometric, etc.
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What two meanings of culture do geographers study?
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To care about and to take care of.
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Clustered
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Close together
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Dispersed
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Far apart
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In the past, most interaction between places required what? How has this changed?
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They used to require movement of settlers, and how it has changed, is when telephones were invented.
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How has modern technology played a role in Globalization?
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Easy movement in money and materials.
