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Introduction to AP Human Geography

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show refers to the idea that as occupiers arrived they bring their own technology & culture traditions and transform the landscape but they can also be influenced by what they find when they arrive and leave some of it there (concept-Derwent Whittlesey, 1929)  
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show study of maps/map making  
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show show location of places and geographic features  
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show tell stories, usually showing the degree of some attribute or movement of a geographic phenomenon  
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absolute location   show
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show describes where a place is in relation to another place  
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global positioning system (GPS)   show
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show a hunt for cache whose coordinates are placed on the internet by other geocachers  
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mental maps   show
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activity spaces   show
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show not entirely specific, the word precipitation uses the main annual precipitation received around the world. a map that does not use specific information  
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show geographers monitor the earth's surface from a distance to understand the scope and rate of environmental change over short and long periods of time by satellites and aircraft (airplanes, balloons)  
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geographic information systems (GIS)   show
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formal region   show
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functional region   show
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show intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography  
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show refers to music, literature, and the arts of a society, and all other features of its ways of life, dress, routine living habits, food, architecture, education, government, law, even agricultural practices  
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cultural trait   show
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show more than one culture may exhibit a cultural trait, but each will consist of a discrete combination of traits  
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show an area where cultural traits develop and from which the cultural traits diffuse  
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independent invention   show
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culture diffusion   show
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time-distance decay   show
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show some cultural traits are not adoptable in particular cultures because of prevailing attitudes or taboos  
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show an idea that develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading outward, moves without people physically moving to be "knowers" of the trait/innovation  
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relocation diffusion   show
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contagious diffusion   show
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hierarchical diffusion   show
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show belief that behavior (individual & collective) is affected, controlled, or determined by physical envrionment people live in  
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possiblism   show
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show an area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to environment  
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show an area of inquiryfundamentally concerned with the environmental consequences of dominant political-economic arrangements and understandings  
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