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General AP Vocab
Term | Definition |
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infrastructure | basic physical organizational structures needed for the operation fo a society and its economy |
cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape; ex: signs in languages of countries, churches |
demographics | statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it; ex: how many people aged 0-4; what percentage fo the population can read |
urbanization | the growth of cities |
social/cultural | relating to beliefs, language, religion, ethnicity |
economic | relating to jobs, taxes, businesses, money |
poiltical | relating to governemnts, laws, boundaries, countries |
diffusion | the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time; ex: spread of a new slang word |
hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate |
sustainability | the ability to keep in existence or maintain an ecosystem |
globalization | process of increasedc interconnections among countries most notably in the areas of economics, politics, and culture |
spatial relationships | where one place is located in relation to another place |
spatial pattern | the way things are laid out and organized on the surface of the Earth |
scale | relationship between the portion fo the Earth being studied adn Earth as a whole; ex: global, country, region, city |
indigenous/native people | original inhabitants of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later |