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MCHS AP Human Geo1
Unit 1: Nature and Perspectives
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sequent Occupance | The theory that societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, which contributes to the cumulative cultural landscape. It symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings. |
| Cultural Landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. How humans interact with nature |
| Arithmetic Density | Total number of people/total land area |
| Physiological Density | Number of people per unit of arable land |
| Hearth | The region where innovative ideas start. Relates to diffusion |
| Diffusion | The process or spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
| Relocation Diffusion | Spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from one place to another (spreading of AIDS from NY, CA, FL) |
| Expansion Diffusion | Spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
| Hierarchal Diffusion | Type of expansion diffusion. Spread of one idea from persons or notes of authority or power to another person or places (hip-hop/rap music) |
| Contagious Diffusion | Type of expansion diffusion. Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population (ideas on internet) |
| Stimulus Diffusion | Spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic may fail to diffuse (PC and Apple Competition) |
| Absolute Distance | Exact measurement of the physical space between two places |
| Relative Distance | Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places |
| Distribution | Arrangement of something across Earth's surface |
| Environmental Determinism | 19th-20th century approach to human geography. Argued that the general laws of human geography can be found in physical sciences |
| Absolute Location | Position on Earth's surface using the coordinate system of longitude (North and South) and latitude (East and West). |
| Relative location | Position of Earth's surface relative to other features (Richmond is south of Lexington) |
| Site | Physical character of a place; what is found and why it's significant |
| Situation | Location of a place relative to other places |
| Space/Time Compression | Reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant places, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
| Friction of Distance | Notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, energy to overcome. States that the quantity of interaction will decline with distance |
| Distance Decay | The farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact |
| Networks | Interconnected notes without a center |
| Connectivity | Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space |
| Accessibility | The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations |
| Space | Physical gap/interval between two objects |
| Spatial Distribution | Physical location of a geographic phenomena across space |
| Size | Estimation or determinism of extent |
| Scale | Representation of a real-world phenomena at a certain level of reduction or generalization. Usually refers to the measurement ratio on a cartographic map |
| Formal Region | Area within which everyone shares at least one common characteristic (language, religion, etc) |
| Functional Region | Area organized around a node or focal point. Tied to the central point by transportation or communication systems or by economic or functional associations. |
| Vernacular Region | Place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. (referred to as a mental map) |
| Possibilism | The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment. |
| Pattern | Common property of distribution. Can be geometric, irregular, linear |
| Place Name | Toponym |
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