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Claire- AP Human Geo
Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cultural Landscape | a geographic area that includes cultural and natural resources associated with interactions between nature and human behavior. |
| Environmental determinis | the belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal develoment |
| possibilism | the belief that there are limits on the effects of the natural environment and there is more focus on the role that human culture plays |
| geographic scale (relative scale) | the area of the world being studied |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | system that uses data from satellites to determine and record an exact location |
| Geographic information system (GIS) | a computer system that can store, analyze, and display information from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets |
| Space | the area between two or more phenomena or things |
| Place | the specific human and physical characteristics of a location |
| region | a group of places in the same area that share a characteristic |
| site | the characteristics at the immediate location |
| situation | the location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places |
| sense of place | the way humans perceive the characteristics of places based on humans' personal beliefs |
| toponyms | a place name |
| formal regions (uniform or homogeneous) | regions that have commonalities of one or multiple physical, cultural, or economic traits |
| Functional (Nadal) regions | regions organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity that occurs there |
| perceptual regions (vernacular) | regions defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to them |
| relative distance | the degree of nearness based on time or money and often dependent on the mood of travel |
| distribution | the way a phenomenon is spread out over an area |
| time-space compression | the shrinking "time-distance" between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication |
| remote sensing | system that uses cameras or other sensors mounted on aircraft |
| flow | the patterns and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena |
| human environment interaction | the connection and exchange between humans and the natural world |
| sustainability | relates to trying to use resources in new ways that allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environment |
| built environment | the physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape |
| absolute distance | the exact measurment of how far or near something is to one another (usually in feet, miles, meters, or kilometers) |
| relative location | a description of where something is in relation to other things |
| absolute location | the precise spot where something is according to a system |
| mapscale | the way a map communicates the ratio of its size to the size of what it represents |
| scale | the ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of those same things on a map |
| cartogram | a map where the sizes of countries (or other area units) are shown according to some specific statistics |
| isoline maps | maps that use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space |
| graduated symbol maps | Maps that use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something |
| dot distribution maps | maps used to show the specific location and distribution of something across the territory o f the map |
| choropleth maps | maps that use various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data |
| thematic maps | maps that show spatial aspects of information or of a phenomenon |
| physical maps | maps that show and label natural features |
| reference maps | maps that show general information about a place |
| scale of analysis | looking at geographic topics at the local, regional, country, or global scale |
| qualitative sources | information that can be collected and recorded with a more humanistic approach, perhaps through interviews, observations, or interpretation of documens |
| geospatial data | all information collected that can be tied to specific locations |
| quantitative data | information that can be measured and recorded using numbers |
| spatial patterns | the general arrangement of things being studied |
| distance decay | the inverse relationship between distance and connection |
| Four-level analysis | Comprehension, identification, explanation, prediction, when looking at a concept, pattern, or process |
| human geography | the study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human's activities |
| physical geography | the study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment |
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ElizabethC117