Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Basic Concepts, Ch.1
Flashcards of the vocabulary words from Chapter 1 of The Cultural Landscape
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ratio of number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture | Agricultural Density |
| Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that make up a group's distinct tradition; ex. food, language, religion, clothing | Culture |
| The arrangement of something across Earth's surface | Distribution |
| An arc running north to south on the globe that measures east to west | Meridian |
| Acquisition of data about Earth's surface via satellite or other long distance methods | Remote sensing |
| Region from which innovative ideas originate; ex. the __________ of Apple products is in California | Hearth |
| Number system that locates parallels; measures distance north or south of the equator | Latitude |
| Specific point distinguished by a distinct characteristic | Place |
| Physical character of a place | Site |
| Spread of a feature through movement of people from one place to another; for example, the English language spreading to America via migrating English settlers | Relocation Diffusion |
| System used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a 2-D map | Projection |
| Time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude; also known as Universal Time (UT) | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) |
| An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends/ features; ex. South America is a _____________ because of its similar cuisine, religion, and language. | Region |
| Process of spreading of a characteristic or trend from one place to another; ex. relocation, expansion, stimulus, hierarchical | Diffusion |
| An east to west line created under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to make surveying and counting towns easier | Base Line |
| Circle around the globe running east to west that measures north to south | Parallel |
| Location of a place in relation to another; ex. The bank is one block away from the supermarket. | Situation |
| Processes that involve the entire world and result in something being worldwide in scope | Globalization |
| a.k.a. Cultural landscape studies- emphasizes the relationship between social and physical characteristics in a particular area | Regional studies |
| Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area | Polder |
| Spread of features from one area to another in a snowballing process | Expansion diffusion |
| System that determines precise position of something through satellites, tracking devices, and receivers | Global Positioning System (GPS) |
| Rapid, widespread diffusion throughout a population; hint: THE PLAGUE!!!! | Contagious diffusion |
| Theory that people have the ability to adjust the environment even though it my set limits | Possibilism |
| An active company in many countries other than where the headquarters are located; ex. fast food restaurants, car companies | Transnational corporation |
| Arc that follows 180 degrees longitude, but can deviate to avoid dividing land areas, clock changes by 1 day | International Date Line (IDL) |
| north to south line created during the Land Ordinance of 1785 to make counting townships easier | Principal Meridian |
| Increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions due to the globalization of the economy; ex. The gap between the economic status of those in third-world countries and the U.S. is increasing. | Uneven development |
| Relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; the scope of something; ex. global, national, state, local | Scale |
| a.k.a. Uniform/homogeneous region- everyone shares one or more unique characteristic | Formal region |
| 2-D model of Earth's surface | Map |
| Representation based on an individual's knowledge; ex. I just moved to New York; my ________ ________ of the city isn't too good. | Mental Map |
| Geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area; ex. Land Ordinance of 1785 | Pattern |
| Substance from the environment that is useful to people, economically and technologically feasible to access and socially acceptable to use | Resource |
| Law that divided U.S. into townships to facilitate sale of land to settlers | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| Position of anything on Earth's surface | Location |
| Relationships between people and objects across space | Connections |
| Changes made to a natural landscape by a cultural group; ex. terracing into mountains | Cultural Landscape |
| 0 degrees longitude; passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England | Prime Meridian |
| Physical gap between two objects | Space |
| a.k.a. nodal region- an area located around a focal point; ex. New York's five boroughs are all connected through transportation and its work force | Functional Region |
| Spread of trend from one person/node of authority to other people; ex. A celebrity starts a new trend. | Hierarchical Diffusion |
| computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data | Geographic Information System (GIS) |
| a.k.a. perceptual region- area that people believe exist as a part of their cultural identity; ex. The American South | Vernacular Region |
| Reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved technology and communications | Space-Time Compression |
| 1 square mile; divided townships into 36 parts | Section |
| 36 square miles; due to the Land Ordinance of 1785; divided into 36 sections | Township |
| Number of people per unit of land suitable for agriculture; hint: number of people, not number of farmers | Physiological Density |
| Number system that locates meridians; measures distance east or west of the prime meridian | Longitude |
| Science of map making | Cartography |
| Decrease in importance to the disappearance as distance increases from an idea or culture's origin | Distance Decay |
| Spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected; ex. Apple's mouse was used by PC even though Apple wasn't popular at the time. | Stimulus Diffusion |
| Name given to a portion of Earth's surface; ex. New York is derived from a York in England, Washington state was named after George Washington, etc. | Toponym |
| 19t5h-20th century approach that the environment determined what humans can and can't do | Environmental Determninism |
| Frequency of existence in an area | Density |
| Density of something over a given area; ex. clustered or dispersed | Concentration |
| Emphasizes human-environment relationships | Cultural Ecology |
| Number of people divided by land area | Arithmetic Density |
Created by:
SydneyR
Popular AP Human Geography sets