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AP Human Geo Final
A study guide for the final!
Question | Answer |
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All the biotic and abiotic factors that act on an organism, population, or ecological community and influence its survival and development. | Environment |
The organisms themselves, their food, and their interactions. | Biotic Factors |
Such items as sunlight, soil, air , water, climate, and pollution. | Abiotic Factiors |
The portion of the earth's surface that is permanently settled by human beings. | Ecumene |
A venture involving three or more national states-political, economic, and or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. | Supranationalism |
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. | Devolution |
Unifies people | Centripetal |
Divides People | Centrifugal |
Four ways of identifying location | Toponym, site, situation, absolute. |
Spreading form one place to another. | Diffusion |
Human-environment relationships | Cultural ecology |
Fundamental geographic question | Why of Where? |
Thinking spatially, producing mental images of space which allows us to navigate and to communicate about relative positon of tings in space. | Mental Mapping |
Transfering the image of a globe on a flat peice of paper. | Map Projection |
Typos on maps. | Distortion |
Gathering data form satelites for cartographic purposes. | Remote Sensing |
Computer systems that process geographic data usually to make layerd maps. | gEOGRAPHIC iNFORMATION sYSTEMS (GIS) |
The relative location of a place. | Situation |
A region which the characteristics apply thoroughout. | Formal Region |