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ap human geo unit 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute location | The exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude |
| Core | Classification of a country or region that has wealth, higher education levels, more advanced technologies, many resources, strong militaries, and powerful allies. |
| Distance decay | A principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have. |
| Ecological perspectives | The relationships between the two living things and their environments. |
| Environmental determinism | The idea that human behaviors is strongly affected, controlled, or determined by the physical environment. |
| Formal region | An area that has one or more shared traits; also called a uniform region. |
| Functional region | An area organized by its function around a focal point, or the center of an interest or activity page. |
| Globalization | The expansion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a worldwide scale. |
| Human Geography | The study of the processes that have shaped how humans understand, use, and alter Earth. |
| Location | The position that a point or object occupies on Earth. |
| Mental Map | Internalized representation of portions of Earth’s surface. |
| Node | The focal point of a functional region. |
| Perceptual region | A type of region that reflects peoples feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a vernacular region. |
| Periphery | Classification of a county or region that has less wealth lower education levels, and less sophisticated technologies and 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 environment, such as landforms, plants, animals, soil, and climate. |
| Place | A location on Earth that is established by its physical and human characteristics. |
| Possibilism | Theory of human-environment interaction that states that humans have the ability to adapt the physical environment to their needs. |
| Region | An area of Earth's surface with certain characteristics that make it cohesive yet distinctive from other areas. |
| Relative location | A description of where a place is in relation to other places or features. |
| Scale | The area of the world being studied. |
| Semi-periphery | Classification of a county or region that has qualities of both core and periphery areas and is often in the process of industrializing. |
| Site | A place’s absolute location, as well as its physical characteristics, such as the landforms, climate, and 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 | Geographic perspectives that focuses on how people live on Earth, how they organize themselves, and why the events of human societies occur where they do. |
| Time-space compression | A key geographic principle that describes the ways in which modern transportation and communication technology have allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances more quickly than easily. |
| World systems theory | Theory describing the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy; categorizes countries past of a hierarchy consisting of the core, periphery, and semi- periphery. |
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