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AP Human Geo Final
A study guide for the final!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the biotic and abiotic factors that act on an organism, population, or ecological community and influence its survival and development. | Environment |
| The organisms themselves, their food, and their interactions. | Biotic Factors |
| Such items as sunlight, soil, air , water, climate, and pollution. | Abiotic Factiors |
| The portion of the earth's surface that is permanently settled by human beings. | Ecumene |
| A venture involving three or more national states-political, economic, and or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. | Supranationalism |
| The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. | Devolution |
| Unifies people | Centripetal |
| Divides People | Centrifugal |
| Four ways of identifying location | Toponym, site, situation, absolute. |
| Spreading form one place to another. | Diffusion |
| Human-environment relationships | Cultural ecology |
| Fundamental geographic question | Why of Where? |
| Thinking spatially, producing mental images of space which allows us to navigate and to communicate about relative positon of tings in space. | Mental Mapping |
| Transfering the image of a globe on a flat peice of paper. | Map Projection |
| Typos on maps. | Distortion |
| Gathering data form satelites for cartographic purposes. | Remote Sensing |
| Computer systems that process geographic data usually to make layerd maps. | gEOGRAPHIC iNFORMATION sYSTEMS (GIS) |
| The relative location of a place. | Situation |
| A region which the characteristics apply thoroughout. | Formal Region |