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Unit 1 Part 8
AP Human Geography Unit 1 Vocabulary Part 8
Term | Definition |
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Climate | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location. |
Ecosystem | A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact |
Ecology | The scientific study of ecosystems |
Cultural Ecology | A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. |
Environmental Determinism | A early approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sough by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. |
Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |
Polder | Land that the Dutch have created by draining water from an area. |