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Unit 1 Vocab Part 4
AP Human Geography Unit 1 Vocab Part 4
Term | Definition |
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Location | The position of anything on Earth’s surface |
Toponym | The name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface |
Site | The physical character of a place. |
Situation | The location of a place relative to another place. |
Cultural Landscape | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationship among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. |
Formal Region (Uniform Region) | An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. |
Functional Region (Nodal Region) | An area organized around a focal point. |
Vernacular Region (Perceptual Region) | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. |
Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition. |
Spatial Association | The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature. |