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AP Human - B.20-31
AP Human Geography Reading Quiz - Belij 20-31
Question | Answer |
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Scale | The distance on a map compared to the distance on earth. The territorial extent on earth. |
On a global scale, what are the wealthiest regions? | Western Europe, Canada, US, Japan, and Australia. |
On a global scale, what are the poorest regions? | Subsaharan Africa and Southeast Asia. |
Rescale | To involve players at other scales and create a global outcry of support for their position. |
Another term for rescale | Jumping Scale |
Region | An area that shares similar characteristics |
Formal Region | An area defined by physical criteria and by cultural traits |
Functional Region | The product of interactions and movement of various kinds |
Perceptual Regions | Intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena |
Regions are | A way of organizing humans geographically |
Spatial Classification | Handling large amounts of information so we can make since of them |
Culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of society. |
Cultural Trait | A single attribute of a culture, such as wearing a turban |
Cultural Complex | A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils |
Cultural Hearth | Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture |
Independent Invention | The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other |
Cultural Diffusion | The process of dissemination, the spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth to other places |
Time-Distance Decay | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source |
Cultural Diffusion | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place or origin to a wider area |
Expansion Diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination |
Contagious Diffusion | The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person - analogous to the communication of a contagious illness |
Hierarchical Diffusion | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas. |
Stimulus Diffusion | A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place |
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 to new ones. The most common form involves the spreading of innovations by a migrating population. |
Environmental Determinism | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. Also referred to as environmentalism. |
Isotherm | Line on a map connecting points of equal temperature values. |
Possibilism | Geographic viewpoint that holds that human decision making is the crucial factor in cultural development. Nonetheless, possibilists view the environment as providing a set of broad constraints that limit possibilities of human choice. |
Cultural Ecology | The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and a the natural environment. |
Political Ecology | An approach to studying nature - society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated. |