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AP HUG Vocab 2
Vocabulary for AP Human Geography from Chapter Two
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Functional Region | also known as a nodal region, area organized around a focal point |
| Vernacular Region | also known as a perceptual region, a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity |
| Mental Map | an internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface |
| Culture | body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a people |
| Cultural Ecology | geographic study of human-environment relationships |
| Possibilism | an idea that states that the physical environment may limit human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the environment |
| Polder | a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area |
| Environmental determinism | an approach that concentrates on how the physical environment causes social development |
| Globalization | a force or process that invokes the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope |
| Distribution | the arrangements of something across earth’s surface |
| Density | the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area |
| Transnational Corporation | conducts research, operates factories and sells products in many countries |
| Arithmetic density | total number of objects in an area |
| Physiological density | number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture |
| Concentration | extent of a feature’s spread over space |
| Agricultural density | number of farmer per unit of farmland |
| Pattern | the geometric arrangement of objects in space |
| Distance decay | a trailing-off phenomenon that ensues when two groups are less likely to interact the further they are from each other |
| Diffusion | process by which a characteristic spreads across space |
| Space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
| Hearth | place from which an innovation originates |
| Relocation diffusion | spread of an idea through physical movement of people across space |
| Expansion diffusion | spread of a feature from one place to another |
| Hierarchical diffusion | spread of an idea from persons of power to other persons |
| Contagious diffusion | rapid spread of an idea throughout a population |
| Stimulus diffusion | spread of an underlying principle |
| Uneven development | increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core that results from globalization of an economy |
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