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APHUG Semester Final
Semester 1 Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | The location of a place by coordinates (longitude and latitude) |
| Greenwhich Mean Time | An absolute time reference that doesn't change with seasons. |
| Five Themes | Location, Human-Environment Interactions, Region, Place, Movement |
| Cultural Landscape | Key traits that give a place it's form. |
| Culture | A way of life that a group of people with similar traits share. |
| Cultural Trait | A trait that people from the same culture share. |
| Cultural Complex | A certain culture may have a unique combo of cultural traits |
| Cultural Barriers | An obstruction causing a cultural idea not to spread. |
| Cultural Diffusion (5 types) | Stimulus, Relocation, Expansion, ,Contagion, Hierarchical, |
| Relative Location | The location of a place relative to other features. Can change |
| Independent Intervention | When a cultural trait develops in many hearths independently. |
| Sequent Occupance | The lasting marks and continued development of a culture |
| Remote Sensimg | How geographers monitor the earth's behavior from a distance |
| Spatial Perspective | Understanding the relationship of history, geography, and economics across an area |
| Situation | External location traits of an area (ex. Metea is in the field by 7/11) |
| Space-Time Compression | Idea that technology causes the world to be more interconnected |
| Site | Internal physical features (absolute location, physical setting, etc.) |
| Spatial Interaction | Flow of people, ideas, products among places. |
| Perceptual Region | What people think when they hear a region, their stereotype of it. (ex. Southern U.S.) |
| Functional Region | A region that consists of people interconnecting (suburb and city) |
| Formal Region | Area with similar physical and cultural characteristics |
| Dispersion | Pattern of spacing within population boundaries |
| Distribution | Arrangement of things in an area (density, concentration, pattern) |
| Environmental Determinism | Idea that people must adapt to limits of their environment |
| Possibilism | Idea that the climate of a region affects the character of it's people |
| Ecumene | Proportion of Earth's surface where people are occupied |
| Total Fertility Rate | Total number of children average woman will have in her lifetime |
| Developing Country (LDC) | Country with less economic and demographic progress |
| Developed Country (MDC) | Country that is very economically developed |
| Dependency Ration | Age : Populaion ratio of those in work force to those who aren't |
| Demographic Momentum | The idea that population doesn't change overnight, it takes years to decline/ increase, etc. |
| Agricultural Density | Ratio of number of farmers to arable land |
| Malthus | Theorized that world would soon not be able to supply resources for everyone |
| Baby Bust/ Boom | Sudden decrease or increase in births |
| Carrying capacity | Number of people an area can occupy |
| Eugenic Population Policy | Government tries to get rid of certain groups of people (ex. Hitler) |
| Physiological Population Density | Number of people to amount of arable land |
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