AP Human Geography Vocabulary CHAPTER 1 & 10 – Flashcards
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Absolute location
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The absolute location is a specific place where something is found.
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Agribusiness
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Agriculture indentified by steps in the food processing industry.
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Agriculture
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Modifying earth's surface for growing crops or raising cattle.
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Agricultural density
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The amount of farmers per area of farmland.
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Animal domesticating
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Domesticating animals for humans to use.
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Aquaculture
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Growing live stock/ crops in water.
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Arithmetic density
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Total number of objects in an area.
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Base Line
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An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States.
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Cartogram
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Shows statistical data.
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Cartography
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The science of mapmaking.
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Cereal grain
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A grass that produces grain for cereal.
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Chaff
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Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing.
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Choropleth map
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A symbolic or marked area on a map showing distribution of property.
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Combine
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A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans the grain while moving over a field.
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Commercial agriculture
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Farming for profit.
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Concentration
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The extent of a feature's spread over space.
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Connections
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Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
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Contagious diffusion
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Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.
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Crop
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Grain, fruit gathered from a field as harvest in a particular season.
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Crop rotation
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The rotating of crops.
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Cultural ecology
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The study of human/environmental relationships.
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Cultural landscape
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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
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Culture
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Body of customary belief/marital traits/social forms.
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Density
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The frequency in which something occurs.
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Desertification
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Degradation of land because of human actions like excessive crop planting, tree cutting and animal grazing.
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Diffusion
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A characteristic spreading across space from place to place.
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Distance decay
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Two groups growing farther and farther apart.
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Distortion
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Stretching/distorting.
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Dot map
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A map that uses a dot to show data.
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Double cropping
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Harvesting twice a year from a field.
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Environmental determinism
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Applying laws from natural science to understand relationships in the Physical/social/ human actions/ environment.
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Epidemic
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H1N1
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Expansion diffusion
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The spread of a feature from one place to the next.
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Formal region
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A region within which everybody shares a common characteristic.
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Functional region
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A region that's Designed/organized on one focus point.
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G.I.S. (Geographical Information system)
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A geographical information system gives Out geographical information.
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G.P.S. ( Global Positioning System)
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A system that shows your global position.
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Globalization
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Ideas or objects spreading globally.
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Grain
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Seed of cereal grass.
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Green revolution
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Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, Especially new high-yield seed and fertilizer.
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Greenwich Mean Time
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The local time... passing through Greenwich, England.
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Hearth
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A place where an invention originates.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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The spread of word from an authority figure from person to person or place to place.
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Horticulture
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The growing of flowers, fruit, and vegetables.
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Hull
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The outer covering of a seed.
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Inernational Date line
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A line on a map that divides one day from the next.
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Intensive substance farming
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A form of substance farming in which the farmers have to expend a relatively large amount of energy to produce the maximum feasible yield from an area of land.
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
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Latitude
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A numbering system to tell the location of each parallel on Earth.
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Location
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A position that something occupies on earth.
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Longitude
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The location of each Meridian on earth.
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Map
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A flat-scale or two-dimensional model of the earth's surfaces.
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Mental Map
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What you think in terms of a portion of Earth.
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Meridian
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An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
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Milk shed
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The area around a city where milk can be supplied without spoiling.
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Paddy
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A Malay word for wet rice.
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Parallel
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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator.
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Pattern
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Geometric arrangement of objects through space.
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Pastoral nomad-ism
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A form of substance agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
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Pasture
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Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing.
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Place
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Point on earth with a particular characteristic.
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Plantation
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A large farm in tropical and sub-tropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for Sale, usually to a more developed country.
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Physiological density.
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The number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture.
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Place
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A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular feature.
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Polder
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A piece of land that is created by draining water from it.
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Possibilism
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The theory that the physical environment limits some human actions.
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Prime Agricultural Land use
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The most productive farmland.
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Prime meridian
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A meridian exactly at 0 degrees longitude.
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Projection
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Transferring earth onto a piece of paper. (A map.)
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Ranching
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A form of commercial agriculture in which Live stock graze over an extensive area.
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Reaper
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A machine that cuts grain over a field.
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Region
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Area on earth that is distinguished by Physical / cultural values.
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Regional Studies
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An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomenon in a particular area study. (cultural landscape)
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Relative location
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A location related to another.
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Relocation Diffusion
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Spread of a thing or idea through a physical movement.
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Remote Sensing
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Taking data From a long Distance away.
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Resource
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Substances that are useful to people.
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Ridge tillage
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Planting crops on ridges.
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Sawah
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A flooded field used to grow wet rice.
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Seed agriculture
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Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result in sexual fertilization.
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Scale
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Relationship of a feature's size on a map to the actual size on earth's surface.
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Section
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A land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side.
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Site
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The location of a place.
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Situation
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The location of a place related to another place.
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Slash-and-burn agriculture.
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Agriculture where debris is slashed and burned in fields that are then for farmland.
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Shifting cultivation
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A form of substance agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops in a relatively few years.
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Space
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A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character.
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Space-time Compression
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The compression of the time it takes to move from point A to point B.
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Spring wheat
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Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in early-summer.
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Stimulus diffusion
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Spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic refuses to diffuse.
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Subsistence agriculture
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Food grown for own consumption.
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Sustainable agriculture
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Food grown for profit.
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Swidden
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A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing /burning.
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Thematic map
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A map that has a theme.
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Thresh
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To beat the grain from the stalks by trampling on them.
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Topnym
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A Name that a specific place on earth is given.
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Township
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A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships.
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Transhumanace
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The seasonal migration of livestock animals between lowland pastures and mountains/hills.
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Transnational corporations
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Conducts research, operates, and sells products in many countries.
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Triple-cropping
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Harvesting three times a year.
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Truck farming
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Bartering/farming.
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Uneven Development
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The increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from globalization of the economy.
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Vegative Planting
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Reproduction of plants by direct cloning.
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Vernacular/ perceptual region
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A place that people believe is there. Ex. Deep south.
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Wet rice
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Rice planted on dry land in a nursery, and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growing.
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Winnow
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To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away in the wind.
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Winter wheat
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Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in early summer.
