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AP Human Geo 1-4 P1
AP Human Geo 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| simple square, accurate in middle | Mercatar Maps/ Map Distortion |
| using the curve of the Earth as a shortcut, Titanic | Great Cirle Routes |
| 3+ satellites needed, Global Poitioning system | GPS |
| Computer Maps with many layers.Geographical Information Systems | GSI |
| Geographer. Theory,Cultural Landscape. | Carl Sauer |
| Carl Sauer | _________ came up with the theory of Cultural Landscape |
| The way humans have impacted nature and how it effects us, buildings. Manmade structures define the culture of a specific area to create a more productive life. | Cultural Landscape |
| place names people place on land, settlements, terrainm terrain features, streams etc. | Toponyms |
| The belief that cultures are dierctl or indierctly shaped by the physical enviornment. | Enviornmental Determinism |
| The belief that humans, rather than physical enviornment, are primary active force; enviorment offers various wasys to develop culture and that choices are mainly guided by cultural heritage. | Possibilism |
| theory proposing that women are inherently better enviornmental preservations that men. | Ecofeminism |
| A region inhabited by people who have one or more one cultural traits in common. [ languages, religion, ethnicity] | Formal Cultural Regions |
| model,pttern,traits comparing and differing from one another | Core Periphery |
| An area that functions as a unit politically, socially, or economically. [Examples: city, independent state church , parish, trade area, farm, Fed. Resrv. Dist.] | Functional Cultural Regions [Examples] |
| center of a functional region [Ex: city halls, nat. captals, Omaha World Herald-Downtown] | Nodes [Examples] |
| Percieved region [Ex: Midwest- Dorthy Lynch | Vernacular regions [*Give Examples] |
| Characteristics of a culture [Ex: religion, Muslims pray 5 times a day] | Culture Traits [Examples] |
| Spatial standardization diminishing regional variety; may result in spread of popular culture destroying uniqueness.[Ex: Walgreens and Walmart everywhere] | Placeslessness [Examples] |
| Spread of ideas throughout a population, from area to area,in a snowballing process. | Expansive Diffusion |
| From important person/place to important person/place, then to everyone else [Ex: Princ, Teachers, Stud.] | Hierarchial Diffusion |
| Bringing culture with you when you move [Ex: Italians] | Relocative Diffusion |
| When you become part of a culture completely, swallowed up [Ex: American Melting Pot] | Assimilation [Examples] |
| When you take the big culture so you can fit in, but still keep your own culture.[Ex: ESL Students] | Acculturation [Examples] |
| Dillution in culture with increasing time and distance from origin. | Time Distance Decay |
| Where the culture gathers, heart of culture.[Ex: Amish, Pennsylvania, were orginially spread from] | Culture Hearths [Examples] |
| simple, less technology, tradtion, rural, Amish | Folk culture Characteristics [Examples] |
| heterogenous, fads, change [Ex: music, dance, clothing, food pref.] | Pop Culture Characteristics [Examples] |
| All physical, tangible objects made by members of cult. group [Ex: Clothing, buildings, tools, instrum., furn., art] | Material Culture [Examples] |
| [Ex: Wide range of tales, songs lore, beliefs, custums passes from gen. to gen. as part of oral or written trad.] | Non-Material Culture [Examples] |
| In Pennsylvania (Dutch), german. Faith, family, Friends. *Barn Raising. horses & bugys | Amish |
| AKA Crele.Lower part of Lousiana [Came from Canada, English w/ French accent]. Eat alligator, fish, raised homes, zinoko music. | Cajun |
| Small shotgun shacks, sharecropping | African American South Cultures |
| Structures built by members of a fold society ina trad. manner and style using locally available raw materials. | Folk Architecture |
| A site where tradgedy and violence occured [Ex: World Trade Center] | Shadowed Ground [Examples] |
| A group of related laguages derived from a common ancestor. | Language Families/Groups |
| Largest most widespread language family 50% | Indo European [Examples] |
| Language family, Africa-Middle East two major divisions- Semitic and Hamatic 6% | Afro ASiatic [Examples] |
| Language family, China- Southeast Asia 24% | Sino-Tibetan [Examples] |
| Under Indo European. [Ex: French, Italian, Spanish] | Romance Languages [Examples] |
| Under Indo- European. [Ex: German, English] | Germanic Languages [Examples] |
| The borders of individual words or pronuncitations. | Isoglasses |
| Different version of same language[Ex: freeway, turnpike, expressway. South] | Dialects [Examples] |
| language made up of tw of more languages into a simplified structure and vocab. | Pidgin Languages |
| Common Language everyone can speak [Ex: English, Swahili West Africa] | Lingua Franca |
| Multlanguage region [Ex: Hebrew, US, Nigeria, east Africa] | Polygots & Bilingual Countries |
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