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Human AP CH1
Human Geography Ch1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cartography | Art of making maps |
| Reference Maps | Show location of features (mountains, rivers, country boundaries) |
| Thematic Maps | show stories like how many people have HIV in Africa |
| Mental Maps | ideas we carry in our head of how things look |
| Activity Space | Area you travel each day |
| Remote Sensing | satellite information |
| GIS | computer that stores "layers" of information that can tell you multiple things at once (city's population and racial breakdown) |
| Scale | How large or small an area covers |
| Large Scale | Map covers small area in large detail |
| Small Scale | map covers large area in small detail |
| Jumping Scale (rescale) | when a local issue becomes a global issue (Swine Flu) |
| Formal region | area where everyone shares a distinct characteristic (language) |
| Functional region | area shares a practical function, all receive Orlando Sentinel |
| Perceptual region | how you think of a region (your stereotype in your head) |
| Culture trait | single unit within a culture (language) not biologically passed but learned |
| Culture Complex | all culture traits combined together to make a unique culture |
| Culture hearth | source of civilization |
| Cultural Diffusion | how ideas spread from one culture to another |
| Time-distance decay | further away from a place is the less likely a culture trait will diffuse |
| Cultural barriers | prevent diffusion of a trait (no beef in Hindu countries) |
| Expansion Diffusion | trait remains strong while spreading to other areas |
| Contagious Diffusion | all areas near the central area are affected by the idea first )like spreading of a disease |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | spreads to only a select few in an area and then slowly to others (fax machine) |
| Stimulus Diffusion | idea indirectly promotes local version of trait (veggie burger) |
| Relocation Diffusion | when a person carries the trait to a new area |
| Acculturation | one less dominant culture adopts the practices and ideas of a more cominant one |
| Assimilation | one culture becomes dominant over another and they become one |
| Environmental Determinism | human behavior is controlled by the physical environment (hurricanes) |
| Possibilism | the environment may limit actions but people can make adjustments (raincoats) |
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