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APHG Chapter 1 Vocab
AP Human Geography Ch. 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Cartography | The science of creating maps |
Climate | The weather conditions in an area for a long period of time |
Concentration | The arrangement of a feature in an area |
Connections | A relationship between 2 subjects |
Conservation | The preservation or protection of something |
Contagious Diffusion | The spread of a characteristic throughout a population |
Cultural Ecology | The relationship/connection between people and their environment |
Cultural Landscape | An approach to geography that emphasizes cultural relationships in an area |
Culture | body of customary beliefs, traits, and language that connects a group of people |
Density | Frequency of a feature in space |
Diffusion | The spread of a feature over an area |
Distance Decay | The farther away you are from the node; then the idea/feature fades |
Distortion | Disadvantages of the map that interferes with the size, shape,distance, or directions on the map |
Ecology | The relationship between organisms and their physical environment |
Distribution | Arrangement of a feature across Earth's surface |
Ecosystem | Group of organisms and the environment that they react with |
Environmental Determinism | An approach to the study of geography that states, geography is the study of how the physical environment causes human activities. |
Expansion Diffusion | Spread of a trend from one place to another |
Formal Region (Uniform Region) | An area where everyone shares one or more of the same trait |
Functional Region (Nodal Region) | An area that focuses on the node or a focal point |
GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, and analyzes geographic data |
Globalization | Actions that involve the entire world or the process of making a topic worldwide |
GMT | 0 degrees latitude; the time zone passing the prime meridian |
GPS (Global Positioning System) | system that calculates the exact location of something on Earth |
Hearth | The location where ideas originate |
Hierarchial Diffusion | The spread of a trend through a high authority or power to people or to places |
International Date Line | 180 degrees longitude and deviates in several areas to avoid land. Heading east causes the clock to move back a day, heading west moves the clock forward a day |
Latitude | Numbering system indicates location of parallels drawn on globe and measures north or south of equator. |
Location | A particular place or area |
Longitude | Numbering system indicates location of meridians on globe. This measures east and west of the prime meridian. |
Map | a 2D projection of the Earth's surface |
Mashup | A map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by mapping service |
Meridian | Arc on the map between North and South poles |
Network | A chain of communication that connects places |
Nonrenewable resource | Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans |
Pattern | Geometric setup of features in space |
Place | A particular location in space |
Polder | land created by water that was drained from an area |
Possibilism | Theory that the physical environment can set limits on human activities, but humans can adjust to their physical environment |
Preservation | The action of conserving a resource |
Prime meridian | The meridian at 0 degrees longitude that passes through Greenwich, England |
Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map |
Region | An area identified by a combination of trends of features |
Relocation diffusion | Spread of feature or trend through physical movement of people from one place to another |
Remote Sensing | Data collected from Earth's surface from a satellite that orbits the Earth |
Renewable Resource | Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans |
Resource | A substance that is reliable for humans in their environment |
Scale | The relationship between a unit on a map compared to the actual size on Earth |
Site | The physical character of a place |
Situation | The location of a place relative to other places |
Space | The physical gap between two objects |
Space-Time Compression | The time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result as better communication and transportation |
Spatial Association | Relationship between distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature |
Stimulus Diffusion | Spread of a topic/idea even though a specific characteristic was once rejected |
Sustainability | The use of resources to conserve it for the future |
Toponym | A name given to a place |
Transnational Corporation | A corporation that exists in multiple areas in the world |
Vernacular Region (Perceptual) | An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
VGI | The creation of geographic data created by individuals and voluntarily contributed |