Chapter 1 AP Human geography Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Sequent Occupance:
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successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape. this symbolizes Human Environment Interaction.
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Cultural Landscape:
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the fashioning of natural landscape by a culture group to fit their needs.
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Arithmetic Density:
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total number of people divided by total area of land. how many people per area of land.
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Physiological Density:
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people per unit of area of ARABLE land; how much land is being used by how many people.
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Hearth:
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region from which innovative ideas originate.
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Diffusion:
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spread of a feature from one place to another over time.
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Relocation Diffusion:
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spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another.
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Expansion diffusion:
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spread of a feature in a snowballing process; happens 1 of 3 ways: hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion.
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Hierarchical Diffusion:
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spread from a person of authority to other persons and places.
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Contagious Diffusion:
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the rapid widespread diffusion throughout a population.
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Absolute Distance:
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exact measurements between two places.
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Relative Distance:
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approximate measurement between two places.
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Distribution:
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arrangement of things across Earth's surface.
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Environmental Determinism:
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geography is the study of how the physical environment caused by human activities.
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Stimulus Diffusion:
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underlying principle of a characteristic spreads although characteristic failed.
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Absolute Location
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position marked using longitude and latitude.
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Relative Location:
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position relative to other features.
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Site:
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character of a place; what is found at the location and why it is significant.
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Situation:
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location relative to other places.
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Space Time Compression:
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reduction of time to diffuse something because of improvements in Technology.
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Friction of Distance:
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distance requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy so interactions tend to take place more often over shorter distances.
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Distance Decay:
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the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact.
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Networks:
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interconnected nodes without a center.
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Connectivity:
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relationships across the barrier of space.
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Accessibility:
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degree of ease to reach a certain location from other locations.
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Space:
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physical gap between two objects.
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Spatial Distribution:
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location of phenomenon across SPACE
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Size:
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estimation of extent
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Scale:
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representation of real phenomenons at a level of reduction or generalization.
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Formal Region: (uniform)
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every one shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics like language or climate.
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Functional Region: (nodal)
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area organized around a node or focal point that dominates at the central focus.
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Vernacular Region: (perceptual)
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people believe it exists as a part of their cultural identity.
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Possibilism:
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the environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust new environments.
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Natural Landscape:
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natural geographical feature created by nature over time.
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Pattern:
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a common property of distribution; geometric arrangements of objects in space.
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Place name:
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toponym; name given to a place on earth.
