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AP geography
AP geography UNIT ONE ch 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| absolute location | Absolute location is a way of describing the position of an object or place, perhaps on the surface of the earth. |
| agricultural density | The total rural population / area of arable land-meaning land that can be used for growing crops |
| arithmetic density | the total number of people divided by the total land area. |
| cartography | the science or practice of drawing maps. |
| concentration | the frequency with which something occurs in space (can be measures of people, houses, cars, volcanoes, or anything, with any method of measurement) |
| contagious diffusion | the distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person.after direct contact between the innovator and potential adapters of an innovation |
| cultural ecology | the relationship between a given society and its natural environment as well as the life-forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways |
| culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
| diffusion | the movement of ideas, notions, and innovations |
| density | the frequency with which something occurs in space (can be measures of people, houses, cars, volcanoes, or anything, with any method of measurement) |
| distance-decay | A function that represents the way that some entity or its influence decays with distance from its geographical location. |
| distribution | Arrangement of features in space; three main properties: density, concentration, pattern |
| environmental determinism | how the physical environment caused social development, applying laws from the natural sciences to understanding relationships between the physical environment and human actions |
| equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| expansion diffusion | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area |
| friction of distance | A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between 2 places. |
| globalization | growth to a global or worldwide scale |
| hierarchical diffusion | A form of expansion diffusion in which an innovation spreads over space from large places to progressively smaller ones, skipping the spaces in between. |
| hearth (node) | the place where diffusion starts. |
| international date line | An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude. When you cross the International Date Line heading east, the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west, the calendar moves ahead one day. |
| latitude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
| longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
| pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a sturdy area. |
| physiological density | number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture. Could mean a country has difficulty growing enough food. |
| possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives |
| prime meridian | a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude. |
| projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map |
| region | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features |
| relative location | location of a place with respect to other places |
| relocation diffusion | sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate the new ones |
| scale | the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. |
| site | The physical character of a place |
| situation | The location of a place relative to other places |
| space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
| spatial analysis | patterns of human behavior and its spatial expression in terms of mathematics and geometry; that is, locational analysis. |
| stimulus diffusion | underlying principle of a characteristic spreads although characteristic failed. |
| time zones | new time zone for every 15 degrees west/ 24 time zones/ allows time to follow with rotation of earth ex: noon- when sun is highest in the sky |
| toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known |
| transnational corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries |
| uneven development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. |
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