AP Human Geography Unit 1 Flashcards
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Geography
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Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, lit. "earth description") is a field of science dedicated to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or picture or write about the earth".
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Place
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a specific place on earth
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Site
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a place's location relative to other things
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Situation
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a location and place's things
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Meridian
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A meridian (or line of longitude) is any great circle line on the Earth's surface, passing through the North Pole and the South Pole. The position of any point on the Earth is located by its meridian longitude and its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude. Each meridian is also the same length equal to the circumference of the Earth, as each meridian is a great circle dividing the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
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Longitude
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A meridian (or line of longitude) is any great circle line on the Earth's surface, passing through the North Pole and the South Pole. The position of any point on the Earth is located by its meridian longitude and its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude. Each meridian is also the same length equal to the circumference of the Earth, as each meridian is a great circle dividing the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
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Parallel
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A circle of latitude on the Earth is an imaginary east-west circle connecting all locations (ignoring elevation) with a given latitude. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude.
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Latitude
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A meridian (or line of longitude) is any great circle line on the Earth's surface, passing through the North Pole and the South Pole. The position of any point on the Earth is located by its meridian longitude and its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude. Each meridian is also the same length equal to the circumference of the Earth, as each meridian is a great circle dividing the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
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Distribution
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how things are spread out in a space
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Density
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how closely things are packed
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Pattern
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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a sturdy area.
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Landscape Analysis
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analyzing the landscape to see how the land and its people think, work, and do
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Cultural Ecology
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Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment.
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Possibilism
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Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
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Map Projection
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how the curved picture of Earth is projected onto a flat surface
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Mercator Projection
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The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments that conserve the angles with the meridians. While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles, where the scale becomes infinite. So, for example, Greenland and Antarctica appear much larger relative to land masses near the equator than they actually are
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Robinson Projection
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The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image.
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Cartography
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the study and science of mapmaking
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Scale
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the size and detail of a map compared to real life
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Hearth
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the region from which innovative ideas originate.
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Gloabalization
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how culture is spread throughout the world
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Region
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a specific geographical and/or cultural area
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Regionalization
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Regionalization is the tendency to form decentralized regions. Regionalization can be observed in various disciplines: In geography, it has two ways: the process of delineating the Earth, its small areas or other units into regions and a state of such a delineation.
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Regionalism
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a quirk particular to a certain region of a place that is not in the rest
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Polar Projection
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The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionately correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. A useful application for this type of projection is a polar projection which shows all meridians (lines of longitude) as straight, with distances from the pole represented correctly. The flag of the United Nations contains an example of a polar azimuthal equidistant projection.
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Geography
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Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, lit. "earth description") is a field of science dedicated to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or picture or write about the earth".
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Place
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a specific area on earth
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Site
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a place's location relative to other things
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Situation
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a location and place's things
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Meridian
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A meridian (or line of longitude) is any great circle line on the Earth's surface, passing through the North Pole and the South Pole. The position of any point on the Earth is located by its meridian longitude and its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude. Each meridian is also the same length equal to the circumference of the Earth, as each meridian is a great circle dividing the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
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Longitude
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A meridian (or line of longitude) is any great circle line on the Earth's surface, passing through the North Pole and the South Pole. The position of any point on the Earth is located by its meridian longitude and its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude. Each meridian is also the same length equal to the circumference of the Earth, as each meridian is a great circle dividing the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
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Parallel
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A circle of latitude on the Earth is an imaginary east-west circle connecting all locations (ignoring elevation) with a given latitude. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude.
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Latitude
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A meridian (or line of longitude) is any great circle line on the Earth's surface, passing through the North Pole and the South Pole. The position of any point on the Earth is located by its meridian longitude and its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude. Each meridian is also the same length equal to the circumference of the Earth, as each meridian is a great circle dividing the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
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Distribution
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how things are spread out in a space
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Density
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how closely things are packed
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Pattern
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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a sturdy area.
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Landscape Analysis
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analyzing the landscape to see how the land and its people think, work, and do
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Cultural Ecology
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Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment.
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Possibilism
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Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
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Map Projection
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how the curved picture of Earth is projected onto a flat surface
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Mercator Projection
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The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments that conserve the angles with the meridians. While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles, where the scale becomes infinite. So, for example, Greenland and Antarctica appear much larger relative to land masses near the equator than they actually are
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Robinson Projection
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The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image.
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Cartography
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the study and science of mapmaking
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Scale
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the size and detail of a map compared to real life
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Hearth
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the region from which innovative ideas originate.
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Gloabalization
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how culture is spread throughout the world
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Region
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a specific geographical and/or cultural area
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Regionalization
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Regionalization is the tendency to form decentralized regions. Regionalization can be observed in various disciplines: In geography, it has two ways: the process of delineating the Earth, its small areas or other units into regions and a state of such a delineation.
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Regionalism
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a quirk particular to a certain region of a place that is not in the rest
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Polar Projection
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The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionately correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. A useful application for this type of projection is a polar projection which shows all meridians (lines of longitude) as straight, with distances from the pole represented correctly. The flag of the United Nations contains an example of a polar azimuthal equidistant projection.
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