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
APHG Unit 1 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fieldwork | The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places. |
| Human geography | branch of geography that studies patterns and procceses that shape human interaction the environment and human activity on Earth |
| Globalization | international integration arising from the interaction of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture |
| Physical geography | study of Earth's physical features on the surface |
| Spatial | of or relating to space |
| Spatial distribution | arrangement of something (ie. Bus stop locations, etc.) across the Earth's surface) |
| Medical geography | study of how local events and climate affect health |
| Pandemics | global disase outbreak, over large regions |
| Epidemics | widespread occurrence of a disease at a particular time in a community |
| Spatial perspectives | a concentration of where something/someone is |
| 5 themes of geography | location, movement, region, place, and human environmental interaction |
| Location | particular place of position |
| Location theory | addresses what economic activities are located where and why |
| Human Environmental Interaction | interactions between the human social system and the ecosystem. |
| Place | an area that is defined by everything in it |
| Region | area that is defined by similar characteristics |
| Sense of place | combinatin of characteristics that a place special and unique |
| Perception of places | perception of places is when humans feel and experience a place |
| Movement | the way people, products, information, and ideas move from one place to another |
| Spatial interactions | the way geographers look at things in relation to space |
| Landscape | geographic feautures of a region |
| Cultural landscape | human interaction with an environment shapes cultural landscape |
| Sequent occupance | theory that place is occupied by different people and each group leaves something from which the next group learns |
| Cartography | map-making |
| Reference maps | emphasizes the geographic location of feautres |
| Thematic maps | maps on a specific subject |
| Absolute location | a location of latitude and longistude in a Cartesian coordinate grid |
| GPS | a system that uses a series of satellites to pinpoint your location (gathers information) |
| Relative location | the location of something in relation to landmarks of other locations |
| Mental maps | maps created purely from the mind and personal perspective of a location |
| Activity spaces | the places we travel routinely in our rounds of daily activity |
| Generalized maps | the process of selecting and representing information on a map in a way that adapts to the scale of the display medium of the map. |
| Remote sensing | a method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study. |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | a collectin of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user |
| Scale | territorial extent of something |
| Functional region | defined by a set of social, political, or economic activities or the interactions that occur within it. |
| Formal region | defined by a commonality, typically a cultural linkage or a physical characteristic. |
| Perceptual region | ideas in our minds, based on accumulated knowledge of places and regions, that define an area of “sameness” or “connectedness.” |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition |
| Cultural trait | a single element of normal pracitce in a culture, such as the wearing of turbans |
| Cultural complex | a related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. |
| Cultural hearth | heartland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture. |
| Cultural diffusion | the expansion and adaption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area |
| Independent invention | the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other. |
| Time-distance decay | the declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its place or origing to a wider area. |
| Cultural barriers | pervailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in the particular culture. |
| Expansion diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination |
| Contagious diffusion | the distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contract from person to person-analogoes to the communication of a contagious illness |
| Hierarchical diffusion | a form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected plaes or peoples. |
| Stimulus diffusion | a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place. |
| Relocation diffusion | sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. |
| Environmental determinism | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development, also referred to as envrionmentalism. |
| Isotherms | line on map connecting points of equal temperature values |
| Possibilism | geographic viewpoint- a response to determinism- that holds that human decesion making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development. |
| Cultural ecology | the multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment. |
| Political ecology | an approach to studying nature-society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated. |
Created by:
albertpham
Popular AP Human Geography sets