AP HUMAN GEO
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| Geography | The study of people, places, spaces, and the environment.
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| Human Geography | One of the two divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human ideas and impact including culture,s, activities, and landscapes.
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| Globilization | Process heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across the country borders.
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| Fieldwork | The observations that researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes by comparing and contrasting them.
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| Patterns | Descriptions of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon.
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| Physical Geography | One division of geography; the spatial analysis of physical landscape (patterns), such as a riverbank or the crest of a mountain ridge.
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| Spatial perspective | Looking at where, why, and how things occur and how places are connected.
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| Geographic concepts | Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world from a spatial perspective.
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| Location | Position on earth using both absolute and relative location (one of the five categories of geography)
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| Absolute location | Precise location of a place, usually using latitude and longitude to do so.
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| Relative loction | The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute.
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| Location theory | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why the places are chosen with production and/or consumption in mind.
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| Human-environment interactions | The relationship between humans and the environment (one of the five themes of geography) and the causes that humans make.
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| Hearth | Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates.
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| Possibilism | Theory in geography that humans, not the environment, shape culture.
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| Carrying capacity | The idea that land can hold a certain amount of life (ie. humans and plants)
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| Cultural ecology | Study of the historical interactions of humans and the environment in one place; studying the ways humans adapted to a place
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| Political ecology | An approach to studying human-environment interactions in the way of political, economic, and historical conditions operating multiple scales.
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| Region | Area of earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perception thing in common that makes it different from others. (one of the five themes of geography)
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| Formal region | Area of land with common cultural or physical traits.
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| Cultural traits | A learned belief, normality, or value passed down through generations in a culture.
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| Functional region | Area of land defined as sharing a common purpose in society.
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| Nodes | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow throughout the network.
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| Perceptual/ Vernacular region | Area of land that a person sees as being similar/ (Vernacular: a language used in interactions in a culture)
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| Place | Uniqueness of a location (One of the five themes of Geography)
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| Sense of Place | Including a place with meaning from the experiences in that location.
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| Perception of Place | How a place is envisioned/ seen as.
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| Movement | Mobility of humans, goods, and services across Earth (one of the five themes of geography)
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| Diffusion | spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places.
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| Spatial Interaction | The amount of connectedness or contact of people and places
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| Distance | The amount of space between one point and another.
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| Accesibility | The amount of ease and flow between two places.
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| Connectivity | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.
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| Expansion diffusion | The spread of an idea from its hearth across the world without people needing to move.
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| Contagious diffuson | Spread of an idea from one person or place to another based on proximity.
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| Hierarchal diffusion | Spread of an idea from one person or place to another based on a hierarchy.
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| Stimulus diffusion | A process of diffusion where to cultural traits come together to make a unique trait,
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| Relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea from people moving and taking the idea with them.
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| Cultural landscape | The visual human impact on the landscape.
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| Sequent occupance | Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of societies.
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| Scale | Geographical scope in where we understand and research phenomenons on a local national or global level.
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| Rescale | Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers at another scale.
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| Context | The physical and human geographies crating the place, environment, and space where event occur.
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| Cartography | The art and science of map making.
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| Reference maps | Maps showing absolute location of places and geographical features.
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| Thematic maps | A map that tells a story, usually show the degree of one characteristic or the movement of a geographic idea using symbols.
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | Satellite based system that determines absolute location of places or geographic features.
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| Mental maps | Maps of an area made of an area made from memory or experience by a human or a group
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| Activity spaces | Places within the rounds of daily activity.
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| Terra incognita | Areas on maps that are not well detailed because they are off limits or they are unknowns.
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| Remote sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of technology/ tools that are far away from the area of study.
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| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | A system of computer hardware and software designed to show, analyze,and represent geographic data.
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| Culture | Group belief systems, normalities, or values practiced by people.
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| Culture Complex | A group of interrelated culture traits. such as dress coeds and cooking utensils.
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| Pandemic | An outbreak of disease that spreads worldwide.
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| Epidemic | A rapid amount of disease among people in a particular location or region at a point in time.
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| Spatial distribution | Physical locations of geographic phenomena, usually shown on a map.
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| environmental determinism | Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth.
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