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Unit 1 Vocab
AP Human Geography Unit 1 Vocab Ch 1-2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| absolute location | the exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude |
| core | the classification of a country or region that has wealth, higher education levels, more advanced technologies, many resources, strong militaries, and powerful allies |
| density | the number of things- people, animals, or objects- in a specific area |
| distance decay | a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have |
| distribute | to arrange within a given space |
| ecological perspectives | is the relationships between living things and their enviroments |
| enviromental determindism | the idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controled, or determinded by the physical enviroment |
| formal region | an area that has one or more shared traits; also called a uniform region |
| friction of distance | the longer a journey is, the more time effort, and cost it will involve |
| functional region | an area organized by its function around a focal point, or the center of interest or activity |
| globalization | the expantion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a world wide scale |
| human geography | the study of the processes tht hace shaped how humans understand, use, and alter Earth |
| location | the position that a point or object occupies the Earth |
| mental map | internalized representations of portion of the Earth's surface |
| model | a representation of realit that presents significant features or relationships in a generalized form |
| node | the focal point of a functional region |
| pattern | the way in which things are arranged in a particular space |
| perceptual region | a type of region that reflects people's feeling and attitudes about a place, also called a vernacular region |
| periphery | a classification of a region or country that has less wealth, lower education levels and less sophisticated technologiesand also tends to have an unstable government and poor healthcare systems |
| physical geography | the study of natural processes and the distribution of features in the enviroment, such as land forms, plants, animals, soil, and climate |
| place | a location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics |
| possibilism | theory of human-enviroment interaction that states that humans have the ability to adapt the physical enviroment to their needs |
| region | an area of the Earth's surface with certain characteristics that make it cohesive yet distinct forom other areas |
| relative location | a description of where a place is in a relation to other places or features |
| scale | the area of the world being studied |
| semi-periphery | the classification of a country or region that has qualities of both core and peripheral areas and is often in the process of Industrialisation |
| site | a place's absolute location as well as its physical characteristics such as the landforms, climate, and natural resources |
| situation | location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features |
| space | the area between two or more things |
| spatial perspective | geographical perspective that focuses on how people live on Earth, how they organize themselves, and why the events of human sociaties occur where they do |
| sustainability | the use of Earth's land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future |
| sustainable development | developement that meets of the present without comprimising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
| time-space compression | a key geographic principle that describes the ways that in which modern transportation and communication technology have allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances more quickly and easily |
| veracular region | a type of region that reflects people's feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a perceptual region. |
| world system theory | a theory describing the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy; categories countries as part of a heirachy consisting of the core, periphery, and semi-periphery. |
| absolute distance | distance that can be measured using standard unit of length |
| absolute dircetion | the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west |
| cartographer | a person who creates maps |
| census | an official count of the number of people in a defined area, such as a state |
| geographical information system (GIS) | a computer system that allows for the collection, organization, and display of geographic data for analysis |
| global positioning system (GPS) | a network of satilites that orbit Earth and transmit location data to recievers enabling users to pin point their exact location |
| map scale | the relationship of the size of the map to the size of the area it represents on the Earth's surface |
| quantative | involving data that can be measured by numbers |
| qualitative | involoving data that is discriptive of a research subject and is often based on people's opinions |
| refrence map | a map that focuses on the location of places |
| relative distance | distance determind in relation to other places or objects |
| relative direction | direction based on a person's perception such as left, right, up, or down |
| remote sensing | collecting or anylizing data from a location without making physical contact |
| thematic map | any map that focuses on one or more variables to show a relationship between geographical locations |
| topography | the representation of Earth's surface to show natural and human-made features, esspecially their relative positions and elevations |
| interrupted map | representation of the Earth's surface that tries to remove distortion by removing parts of the globe |
| topographic map | representation of the Earth' s surface that uses contour lines to display terrain and elevation in a certain area |
| clustered | close together |
| dispersed | far apart |
| uninterrupted map | representation of the Earth' s surface that displays entirety of Earth' s surface |
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