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AP HumanGeo vocab
AP Human Geography words chapter 1 part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Functional Region | an area organized around a node or focal point. |
| Cultural Ecology | Geographic apporach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire World and result in making something worldwide in scope. |
| Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
| Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area. |
| Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate. |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
| Vernacular Region | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. |
| Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. |
| Physiological Density | The number of people per unit per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread if a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
| Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. |
| Mental Map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. |
| Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area. |
| Density | The frequency which something exists within a given unit of area. |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. |
| Diffusion | The process if spread if a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
| Uneven Development | The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition. |
| Environmental Determinism | A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. |
| transnational corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. |
| agricultural density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. |
| Space-Time Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distance place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |