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AP HuG 1.3 vocab
AP human geography vocab for section 1.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| globalization | a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something world-wide in scope |
| Transnational corporation | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where it is located |
| Distribution | the arrangement of a feature in space |
| Density | the frequency with which something occurs in space |
| Concentration | the extent of a features spread across space |
| Pattern | the geometric arrangement of objects in space |
| Poststructuralist geography- | examines how the powerful in a society dominate, or seek to control, less powerful groups, how the dominated groups occupy space, and confrontations that result from the domination |
| Humanistic geography | emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings |
| Behavioral Geography | emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space |
| Uneven Development | the increasing gap in economic and conditions between regions in the core and periphery |
| Diffusion | the process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another over time |
| Hearth | a place from which innovation originates |
| Relocation diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another |
| Expansion diffusion | the spread of an idea from one place to another |
| Hierarchical diffusion | the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places |
| Contagious diffusion | rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population |
| Stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse |
| Distance decay | contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears |
| space-time compression | geographers use this term to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place |
| network | a chain of communication that connects places, example could be a social media site |
| assimilation | the process of which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group |
| acculturation | the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups |
| syncretism | the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature |
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