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elrod first test
ap human geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what type of density describes the number of farmers per unit of area? | agricultural |
| what type of density describes how many people are supported by a unit of arable farmland? | physiological |
| what type of density describes how many objects are in an area? | arithmetic |
| concentration | the extent of a feature's spread over space |
| density | the frequency with which something occurs in space |
| distribution | the arrangement of a feature across space |
| pattern | the organization of objects within a given area |
| base lines | lines that measure east and west which separated townships in the land ordinance of 1785 |
| principle meridian | used to measure lines north and south to separated townships in the land ordinance of 1785 |
| township | square, six miles on each side |
| range | The second number of the Township in the grid, it represents the location east or west of a principal meridian |
| relocation | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people |
| expansion | the spread of a feature from one place to another using the "snowballing process" |
| contagious diffusion | the rapid, wide spread of a characteristic throughout the population |
| hierarchical diffusion | the spread of an idea through persons or nodes of authority. |
| stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle |
| cartography | map making |
| cultural ecology | the study of human-environment interactions |
| distance-decay | the trailing off of interaction between places as distance increases between them |
| environmental determinism | the argument that some human actions are scientifically caused by environmental conditions |
| globalization | a force or process that involves the whole world and results in something being world-wide in scope |
| possibilism | the rejection of environmental determinism |
| regional studies | the cultural landscape approach to geography |
| uneven development | the increasing gap in economic conditions worldwide |
| formal region | an area that has more than one place that shares in at least one characteristic |
| functional region | also called nodal. around a node or focal point |
| vernacular region | also called perpetual. culturally based |
| site | the physical character of a place |
| situation | the location of a place in relation to another |
| place | as specific point on earth that has a special characteristic |
| location | the position that something occupies on the Earth's surface (relative and absolute) |
| international date line | 180 degrees longitude |
| Greenwich mean time | based on the prime meridian, helps divide earth into 24 time zones |
| remote sensing | getting info about the earth's surface from a satellite or long distance method |
| GIS | stores layers of information |
| GPS | used to pinpoint an exact location on the earth's surface using a group of satellites |
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maddie13
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