APHG Unit 1 Test
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| cartography | the science of making maps
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| contagious diffusion | the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
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| culture | the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together consitute a group of people's distinct tradition
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| density | the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
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| diffusion | the process or spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
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| distance-decay | the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
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| distribution | the arrangement of something across earth's surface
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| cultural ecology | geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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| environmental determinism | the theory that the physical environment causes human activities
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| expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
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| formal region | an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
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| functional (or nodal) region | an area organized around a node or focal point
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| Geographic Information System (GIS) | a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | a system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers
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| hiearchical diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
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| hearth | the region from which innovative ideas originate
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| International Date Line | an arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (towards America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day.
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| latitude | the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator (0 degrees)
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| longitude | the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distances east and west of the prime meridian (0 degrees)
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| Mercator projection | this map shows shapes fairly accurately, but not size or distance. It exaggerates land near the poles but lets navigators plot a straight course between any two points
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| possibilism | the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
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| Prime Meridian | the meridian, designated as 0 degrees longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England
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| projection | the system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map
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| relocation diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
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| stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected
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| toponym | the name given to a portion of Earth's surface
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| vernacular region | (perceptual region) an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
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| cultural landscape | fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
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| globalization | actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
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| Robinson projection | this map was designed to show land areas much the way they really look. The outlines of the continents appear much as they do on a globe, but the sizes of the continents are a little smaller than they appear on the globe.
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| remote sensing | the aquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite or other long-distance methods
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| scale | the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feture on Earth's surface
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| site | the physical character of a place
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| situation | the location of a place relative to another place
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| space-time compression | the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transportation systems
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| uneven development | the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
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