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APHG Chapter 1 Vocab
AP Human Geography Ch. 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cartography | The science of creating maps |
| Climate | The weather conditions in an area for a long period of time |
| Concentration | The arrangement of a feature in an area |
| Connections | A relationship between 2 subjects |
| Conservation | The preservation or protection of something |
| Contagious Diffusion | The spread of a characteristic throughout a population |
| Cultural Ecology | The relationship/connection between people and their environment |
| Cultural Landscape | An approach to geography that emphasizes cultural relationships in an area |
| Culture | body of customary beliefs, traits, and language that connects a group of people |
| Density | Frequency of a feature in space |
| Diffusion | The spread of a feature over an area |
| Distance Decay | The farther away you are from the node; then the idea/feature fades |
| Distortion | Disadvantages of the map that interferes with the size, shape,distance, or directions on the map |
| Ecology | The relationship between organisms and their physical environment |
| Distribution | Arrangement of a feature across Earth's surface |
| Ecosystem | Group of organisms and the environment that they react with |
| Environmental Determinism | An approach to the study of geography that states, geography is the study of how the physical environment causes human activities. |
| Expansion Diffusion | Spread of a trend from one place to another |
| Formal Region (Uniform Region) | An area where everyone shares one or more of the same trait |
| Functional Region (Nodal Region) | An area that focuses on the node or a focal point |
| GIS | A computer system that stores, organizes, and analyzes geographic data |
| Globalization | Actions that involve the entire world or the process of making a topic worldwide |
| GMT | 0 degrees latitude; the time zone passing the prime meridian |
| GPS (Global Positioning System) | system that calculates the exact location of something on Earth |
| Hearth | The location where ideas originate |
| Hierarchial Diffusion | The spread of a trend through a high authority or power to people or to places |
| International Date Line | 180 degrees longitude and deviates in several areas to avoid land. Heading east causes the clock to move back a day, heading west moves the clock forward a day |
| Latitude | Numbering system indicates location of parallels drawn on globe and measures north or south of equator. |
| Location | A particular place or area |
| Longitude | Numbering system indicates location of meridians on globe. This measures east and west of the prime meridian. |
| Map | a 2D projection of the Earth's surface |
| Mashup | A map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by mapping service |
| Meridian | Arc on the map between North and South poles |
| Network | A chain of communication that connects places |
| Nonrenewable resource | Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans |
| Pattern | Geometric setup of features in space |
| Place | A particular location in space |
| Polder | land created by water that was drained from an area |
| Possibilism | Theory that the physical environment can set limits on human activities, but humans can adjust to their physical environment |
| Preservation | The action of conserving a resource |
| Prime meridian | The meridian at 0 degrees longitude that passes through Greenwich, England |
| Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map |
| Region | An area identified by a combination of trends of features |
| Relocation diffusion | Spread of feature or trend through physical movement of people from one place to another |
| Remote Sensing | Data collected from Earth's surface from a satellite that orbits the Earth |
| Renewable Resource | Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans |
| Resource | A substance that is reliable for humans in their environment |
| Scale | The relationship between a unit on a map compared to the actual size on Earth |
| Site | The physical character of a place |
| Situation | The location of a place relative to other places |
| Space | The physical gap between two objects |
| Space-Time Compression | The time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result as better communication and transportation |
| Spatial Association | Relationship between distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature |
| Stimulus Diffusion | Spread of a topic/idea even though a specific characteristic was once rejected |
| Sustainability | The use of resources to conserve it for the future |
| Toponym | A name given to a place |
| Transnational Corporation | A corporation that exists in multiple areas in the world |
| Vernacular Region (Perceptual) | An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity |
| VGI | The creation of geographic data created by individuals and voluntarily contributed |
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