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Unit 1
Unit 1 AP Human Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Map | storing refrence material Helps us find the shortest route between 2 places Helps avoid getting lost Learn locations |
| Cartography | The science of mapmaking |
| Scale | the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth. |
| Projection | the transformation of a spherical object to a flat object |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | Divided much of the country into a system of townships and ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settelers in the west. |
| G.I.S.- Geographic Information System | A computer system that can capture store, analyze, and display geographic data. |
| Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distances meathods. |
| G.P.S.- Global Positioning System | Teh system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth. |
| Location | The position that something occupies on Earth's surface, and in doing so consider four ways to identify location. |
| Place | A single point. |
| Toponym | Is the name given to a place on Earth. |
| Site | The physical character of a place. |
| Situation | Is the place relative to other places |
| Latitude | The numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel. |
| Parallel | A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and right angles to the meridians. |
| Longitude | teh location of each meridian is identified on Earth's surface according to a numbering system. |
| Meridian | An arc drawn between the north and south poles. |
| Prime Meridian | 0 longitude passes through the Toyal Obseratory at Greenwich, England. |
| G.M.T.- Greenwich Mean Time | The time at the prime meridian, and is the master refrence time for all points on Earth. |
| International Date Line | follows 180 degree longitude Moving East toward America move back 24 hours Moving west toward Asia move clock ahead 24 hours |
| Region | an area |
| Formal Region | (uniform region, or homogeneous region) an area within which everyone shares 1thing in common, distinct characters. |
| Functional Region | (nodal region) An area organized around a node or focal point. |
| Vernacular Region | (perceptual region) a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. |
| Mental Map | An internal representation of portion of Earth's surface. |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms making a tradition to a group of people. |
| Cultural Ecology | The geographic study of human-enviornment relationships. |
| Environental Deterninism | How the physical enviornment CAUSED social development. |
| Possibilism | The physical enviornment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to change their enviornment. |
| Globalization | The precess that envolves the world causing somethin to become worldwide. |
| Transnational Corperation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many contries, not just where its headquaters are. |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. |
| Density(arithmetic, physiological, agricultural) | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area |
| Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area |
| Space-Time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant plave a a result of improved communications and transportation system. |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importaince and eventually dissappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its orgin. |
| Hearth | The region from which innovate ideas originate |
| Diffusion | The process of spread of feature or trend from one plave to another over time. |
| Relocation Diffusion | Teh spread of a feature/trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
| Expantion Diffusion | The spread of a feature/trend among people in "snowballing" process. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature/trend fro 1 key person or power to other people/places. |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffustion of a feature/trend throuhout a population. |
| Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. |
| Uneven Development | Teh increasing gap in economy conditions between coneand peripheral regions as a result of the globilization of the economy. |
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