AP Human Geography, Unit 1 Flashcards
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| Mental Map | show 🗑
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| show | Description of the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude.
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| show | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
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| Distance decay | show 🗑
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| Environmental determinism | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.
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| Sustainability | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
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| show | An area in which most people share in one or more distinctive characteristics.
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| show | The location of a place relative to another place.
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| show | The spread of an underlying principle.
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| show | The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
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| show | A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
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| show | An area organized around a node or focal point.
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| Vernacular region (or perceptual region) | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another (when people move from their original location to another and bring their innovations with them).
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| show | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
ex. A raw product might be harvested in central Africa, used to manufacture goods in China, and shipped around the world for sale.
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| Sense of place | show 🗑
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| show | The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
ex. Cities have old warehouses that have been converted into apartments, shopping areas, and condos.
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| show | A basic concept that considers how locations interact with each other in terms of the movement of people, freight, services, energy, or information.
ex. Migration, shopping, trips, the spatial pattern of telephone calls, use of healthcare facilities.
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