Lake Park - AP Human Geography - Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| show | The science of making maps
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| Concentration | show 🗑
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| show | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Density | show 🗑
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Distance Decay | show 🗑
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| Distribution | show 🗑
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| Expansion Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Formal Region (or uniform or homogeneous region) | show 🗑
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| show | An area organized around a node or focal point
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| show | A computer that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
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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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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| show | The region from which innovative ideas originate
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| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority to other persons or places
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| show | An internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Projection | show 🗑
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| show | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features
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| Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Remote Sensing | show 🗑
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| show | Generally, the relationship between a portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth’s surface
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| show | The physical character of a plain
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| show | The location of a place relative to other places
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| show | The reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems
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| show | The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface
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| Transnational Corporation | show 🗑
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| show | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
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| show | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes
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| Physical Geography | show 🗑
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| show | Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space
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| show | Physical location of geographic phenomena across space
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| show | A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. The agricultural location theory in the von Thünen model is a leading example
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| show | State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character
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| Perception of Place | show 🗑
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| Time-Distance Decay | show 🗑
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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 of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales
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| Region | show 🗑
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| show | The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
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| Cultural Ecology | show 🗑
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| Political Ecology | show 🗑
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| show | The movement (e.g. of people, goods, information) between different places; an indication of interdependence between different geographic locations or areas
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| show | The term used to describe the physical spread of people moving from one place to another
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| Possibilist | show 🗑
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| show | Concerned with how linked a place is to the outside world, this theme of geography deals mainly with the area, because how well an area is connected to the world determines its importance
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| show | The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa
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| Natural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Physical Geography | show 🗑
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| show | An intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of specific phenomena, how and why that phenomena is where it is, and, finally, how it is spatially relates to phenomena in other places
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| show | The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place
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| Complementarity | show 🗑
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| show | The degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places
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| show | A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between to places
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| show | A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on size of their populations and their distance from each other
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| show | The idea that the distance between some places is actually shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction between those places
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| show | The costs involved in moving goods from one place to another
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