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Modules 3-6

AP Human Geo

TermDefinition
Absolute Location A precise position on Earthś surface.
Relative Location The position of a place/person in relation to another person/place.
Space Where we occupy and how/when it has no value till humans make it their own.
Place How we change a spaces based on who we are as a group.
Cultural Landscape What cultural groups create when inhabiting a space(farms, cities, etc.) and the meanings, experiences, etc with them.
Time-space compression The decreasing distance of everything when measured by travel time/cost. (Like how its becoming easier to get around.)
Interdependance The ties between regions that over time create a not totally equal economic system.
Geographic processes The physical attributes plus humans together and how it shapes the world.
Diffusion How something spreads from a place through space and time.
Independent Invention When similar innovations are developed at the same times by different independent people.
Expansion Diffusion When ideas spread throughout a population, then areas so total number of knowers and areas of occurrence increase.
Hierarchical Diffusion When ideas spread to more important people or places first.
Reverse hierarchical Diffusion When ideas spread through the more rural areas first before getting to bigger cities (pretty much the opposite of hierarchical diffusion).
Contagious Diffusion When things spread by closeness like a disease without regard for hierarchy.
Stimulus Diffusion When specifics are rejected, but the underlying idea is kept.
Relocation Diffusion When ideas migrate from one place to another.
Friction of Distance Farther places requiring more time and effort to get things. (becoming less relevant due to modern tech).
Ecology Scientific study of how living things interact with each other and the environment around them.
Cultural Ecology Study of interactions between societies and their local environment.
Ecosystems Community of living organisms and their non-living environment.
Environmental Perception How people interpret nature.
Natural Hazard Environmental dangers that cause danger to people and properties. (like natural disasters)
Tsunami Huge ocean wave from displacement of water.
Natural resources Useful materials that come from nature.
Non renewable resources Resources available limitly.
Renewable resources Resources that naturally replenish.
Greenhouse gases Gasses in the atmosphere that trap heat to warm the earth.
Sustainability Meeting the needs of the present without sacrificing future generations needs.
Environmental Determinism The idea that the physical environment completely controls human culture and societal development.
Environmental Possibilism The geographic theory that the natural environment sets limits, but human culture determines how a society develops.
Global Scale Geographic scale that looks at geographic occurrences around the world.
Regional Scale Geographic scale that analyzes a specific regions geographic occurrences.
National Scale Geographic scale that analyzes geographic occurrence within a specific country.
Local Scale Geographic scale that analyzes geographic occurrences within a state,province,city, town, or neighborhood.
Global perspective The ability to understand how local actions, events, and issues affect/connect people.
Region A geographic unit based on one or more common characteristics and functions.
Formal region A geographical area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common.
Border zone A region where cultural markers overlap and blend into a recognizable border culture.
Functional region A geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically as one unit.
Nodes The central point of where functions of a functional regions are coordinated.
Metropolitan area An area composed of a heavily populated urban core and its less populated surrounding areas.
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