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APHG CH 1
Ch 1 in 10 edition of Rubenstien
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Density | # of Farmers/ arable land |
| Arithmetic Density | # of people/ Total land area |
| Cartography | The science of making maps |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population |
| Cultural Ecology | Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationship |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition |
| Density | The frequency w/ which something exists within a given area |
| Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomena w/ increasing distance from its origin |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface |
| Enviromental Determinism | the approach to geography where it is the study of how the physical environment caused human activities |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process |
| Formal Region | An area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive Characteristics |
| Functional Region | An area organized around a node or focal point |
| GIS (Geographical Information System) | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes and displays geographic data |
| Globalization | Action or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope |
| Greenwhich Mean Time | The time in that the time zone encompassing the prime meridian |
| Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate |
| Hierarchical diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
| International Date Line | A arc that for the most part follows 180 longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the IDL heading E (toward america) the clock moves back 24 HRs |
| Latitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location or parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance N and S of the equator |
| Location | The position of anything on Earth's Surface |
| Longitude | The numbering system used to indicate the location of Meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance E and W of the Prime meridian |
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