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AP Human Geograpahy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Core Country | highly interconnected, with good transportation and communication networks and infrastructure that supports economic activity |
| Density | the number of things, people, animals, or objects - in a specific area |
| Distance Decay | a principle stating that the farther away 1 thing is from another, the less interaction the 2 things will have |
| Environmental Determinism | the idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controlled, or determined by the physical environment. |
| Flow | movement of people, goods, of information that has economic, social, political, or cultural effects on societies |
| Formal Region | an area that has 1 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 |
| Globalization | the expansion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a worldwide scale |
| Node | the focal point of a functional region. |
| Perceptual Region | a type of region that reflects people's feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a vernacular region. |
| Periphery Country | tend to have less stable governments and poorer services such as health care |
| Place | a location on Earth that is distinguished by it's 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 distinct from other areas |
| Scale of Analysis | the area of the world being studied |
| Semi- Periphery Country | classification of a country or region that has qualities of both core and peripheral areas and is often in the process of industrializing |
| Site | a place's absolute location, as well as it's 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 2 or more things |
| Sustainability | the use of Earth's land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future |
| Time-Space Compression | a key geographic principle that describes the ways in which modern transportation/communication tech have allowed humans to travel/ communicate over long-distances. |
| World-System Theory | theory describing the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy; categories countries as part of a hierarchy consisting of the core, periphery, and semi periphery |
| Absolute Location | the exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude. |
| Absolute Distance | distance that can be measured using a standard unit of length |
| Absolute Direction | the cardinal directions north, south, east, and west |
| Cartographer | person who creates maps |
| Census | an official count of the number of people in a defined area, such as a state |
| GIS | a computer system that allows for the collection, organization, and display of geographic data for analysis. |
| GPS Map Scale | an integrated network of at least 31 satellites in the U.S system that orbit Earth |
| Quantitative | involving data that can be measured by numbers. |
| Qualitative | involving data that is descriptive of a research subject and is often based on people's opinion. |
| Reference Map | a map that focuses on the location of places. |
| Relative Location | a description of where a place is in relation to other places or features |
| Relative Distance | distance determined 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 analyzing data from a location without making physical contact. |
| topography | the representation of Earth's surface to show natural and human-made features, especially their relative positions and elevations. |
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