AP Human Geo Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| show | Geography
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| One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human phenomena, including population, cultures, activities, and landscapes. | show 🗑
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| Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders. | show 🗑
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| show | Fieldwork
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| Description of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon (e.g., scattered or concentrated). | show 🗑
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| show | Physical Geography
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| Physical locations of geographic phenomena, usually shown on a map. | show 🗑
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| show | Pandemic
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| Widespread, rapid diffusion of disease among a people in a particular location or region at a particular time. | show 🗑
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| show | Spatial perspective
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| Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world spatially. | show 🗑
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| Position on Earth, including both absolute location and relative location (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| show | Absolute location
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| show | Relative location
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| show | Location theory
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| show | Human-environment interactions
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| Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth. | show 🗑
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| Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates. | show 🗑
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| show | Possibilism
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| The idea that land can hold a measurable amount of plant and animal life. | show 🗑
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| Study of the historical interaction between humans and environment in a place, including ways humans have modified and adapted to environment. | show 🗑
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| show | Political Ecology
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| Area of Earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual commonality that makes it different from regions around it (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| Area of land with common cultural or physical traits. | show 🗑
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| A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture. | show 🗑
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| Area of land defined as sharing a common purpose in society. | show 🗑
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| show | Nodes
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| show | Perceptual/Vernacular Region
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| show | Place
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| show | Sense of Place
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| show | Perception of Place
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| Mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| Spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places. | show 🗑
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| show | Spatial Interaction
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| The measured physical space between two things. | show 🗑
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| show | Accessibility
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| Position of a place or area relative to others in a network. | show 🗑
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| show | Expansion Diffusion
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| show | Contagious Diffusion
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| show | Hierarchical Diffusion
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| show | Stimulus Diffusion
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| Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them. | show 🗑
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| The visible human imprint on the landscape. | show 🗑
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| Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of successive societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape. | show 🗑
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| show | Scale
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| Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers and gatekeepers at another scale. | show 🗑
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| show | Context
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| show | Cartography
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| Maps showing absolute location of places and geographic features. | show 🗑
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| A map that tells a story, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon using map symbols. | show 🗑
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| Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. | show 🗑
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| show | Mental maps
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| The spaces people move through routinely. | show 🗑
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| Areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker. | show 🗑
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| A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g., satellites) that are physically distant from the area of study. | show 🗑
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| show | Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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| show | Culture
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| A group of interrelated cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. | show 🗑
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