AP Human Geography Vocabulary Terms from Unit 1
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| show | The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
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| show | The spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities and landscapes
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| show | The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact; the process transcends state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales
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| show | The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals and topography
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| Spatial | show 🗑
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| show | The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective; looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases
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| show | An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide
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| Epidemic | show 🗑
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | Location, Human-Environment Interaction, Region, Place, Movement
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| Location | show 🗑
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| Location Theory | show 🗑
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| Human-Environment Interaction | show 🗑
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| show | an area on the earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon
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| show | The uniqueness of a location
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| Perception of Place | show 🗑
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| show | The mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet
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| Spatial Interaction | show 🗑
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| Distance | show 🗑
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| Accessibility | show 🗑
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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| Landscape | show 🗑
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Sequent Occupance | show 🗑
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| show | The art and science of making maps, including data, compilation, layout, and design; also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns
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| Reference Maps | show 🗑
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| Thematic Maps | show 🗑
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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| show | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
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| show | A hunt for a cache, the coordinates which are placed on the internet by other geocachers
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| show | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places
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| show | Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
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| Activity Space | show 🗑
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| Generalized Map | show 🗑
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| show | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study
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| show | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed to the user
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| show | Involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative
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| show | A type of region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it
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| show | A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it
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| Perceptual Region | show 🗑
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| show | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society
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| Culture Trait | show 🗑
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| show | A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
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| show | Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
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| Independent invention | show 🗑
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| show | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, form its place or origin to a wider area
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| Time-Distance Decay | show 🗑
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| Cultural Barrier | show 🗑
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| show | 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
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| Contagious diffucion | show 🗑
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| Hierarchical Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place
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| show | Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones
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| show | Ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| show | A response to determinism- that holds that human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development
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| show | The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment
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| Political Ecology | show 🗑
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| Terra Incognita | show 🗑
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| Centrality | show 🗑
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| show | The primeval supercontinent that broke apart and formed the continents and oceans as we know them today
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| show | The process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge
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| Divergent Boundary | show 🗑
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| Convergent Boundary | show 🗑
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| Transform Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | A series of faults at a weak spot in the earth's crust; it runs 150 miles from Arkansas into Missouri and Illinois; it was responsible for the most violent series of earthquakes in North American history
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| show | It is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km through California; it forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate
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| Alluvial | show 🗑
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| show | Phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading
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| Jackson Purchase Region | show 🗑
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| show | It is characterized by Pennsylvanian age sandstones, shales and coal seams
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| show | It is a large area of the state that features rolling hills, caves, and karst topography in general; t is also called the "Mississippi Plateau"
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| Bluegrass Region | show 🗑
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| Knobs Region | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the Central Appalachian bituminous coalfield, including all or parts of 30 Kentucky counties; the region is known for its coal mining
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| show | The region between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
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| show | A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles, most notably the International Date Line and Prime Meridian
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| show | The distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, usually expressed in degrees and minutes
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| Latitude | show 🗑
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