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APHG Vocab Unit 1
Unit 1 vocab on Geography, its nature and perspective
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Human Geography | |
| Physical Geography | |
| Five Themes of geography | Location, Place, Human-Environmental Interaction, Movement, Regions |
| Relative location | |
| Absolute location | |
| Site | the physical character of a place: Characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation. |
| Situation | the location of a place relative to other places. |
| Environmental Determinism | the belief that the physical environment caused social development |
| Possibilism | The environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment. |
| Formal region | An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics |
| Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point. |
| Perceptual Region | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. |
| Space | the physical gap or interval between two objects. |
| spatial perspective | |
| Place | the physical gap or interval between two objects. |
| Sense of Place | |
| Perception of place | |
| Mental map | |
| Topophilia | |
| Topophobia | |
| Toponym | the name given to a place on Earth, derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers |
| Euclidean Space | |
| Tobler's Law | |
| Friction of Distance |