AP Human Geography Vocabulary Terms from Unit 1
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| show | The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
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| Human Geography | show 🗑
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| show | The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact; the process transcends state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales
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| Physical Geography | show 🗑
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| Spatial | show 🗑
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| show | Physical location of geographic phenomena across space
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| Pattern | show 🗑
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| show | The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective; looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases
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| show | An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide
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| show | Regional outbreak of a disease
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| Location | show 🗑
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| Location Theory | show 🗑
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| Human-Environment Interaction | show 🗑
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| Region | show 🗑
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| show | The uniqueness of a location
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| Perception of Place | show 🗑
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| show | The connectivity between places
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| show | The measurement of the physical space between two places
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| show | The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations; it varies from place to place and can be measured
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| show | The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
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| show | The overall appearance of an area; usually a combination of natural and human-introduced influences
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| show | The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape; layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants
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| show | The art and science of making maps, including data, compilation, layout, and design; also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns
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| show | Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude
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| show | Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon
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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| show | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
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| show | A hunt for a cache, the coordinates which are placed on the internet by other geocachers
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| show | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places
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| Mental Map | show 🗑
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| Activity Space | show 🗑
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| show | The process of selecting and representing information on a map in a way that adapts to the scale of the display medium of the map.
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| show | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study
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| Geographic Information Systems | show 🗑
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| show | Involvement of players at other scales to generate support for a position or an initiative
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| Formal Region | show 🗑
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| Functional Region | show 🗑
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| show | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entitiy
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| show | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society
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| Culture Trait | show 🗑
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| show | A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
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| Cultural hearth | show 🗑
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| show | The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other
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| Cultural Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source
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| show | Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture
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| Expansion Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The distance=controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person
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| Hierarchical Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Stimulus Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Geographic Concept | show 🗑
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| Environmental Determinism | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Cultural Ecology | show 🗑
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| show | Approach to studying nature-society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic context in which they are situated
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| Terra Incognita | show 🗑
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| Centrality | show 🗑
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| Pangaea | show 🗑
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| Subduction | show 🗑
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| Divergent Boundary | show 🗑
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| Convergent Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Boundary that exists where two tectonic plates grind past each other
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| show | A series of faults at a weak spot in the earth's crust; it runs 150 miles from Arkansas into Missouri and Illinois; it was responsible for the most violent series of earthquakes in North American history
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| San Andreas Fault | show 🗑
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| show | A deposit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil
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| show | Phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading
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| Jackson Purchase Region | show 🗑
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| show | It is characterized by Pennsylvanian age sandstones, shales and coal seams
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| show | It is a large area of the state that features rolling hills, caves, and karst topography in general; t is also called the "Mississippi Plateau"
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| Bluegrass Region | show 🗑
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| Knobs Region | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the Central Appalachian bituminous coalfield, including all or parts of 30 Kentucky counties; the region is known for its coal mining
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| Tropics | show 🗑
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| Meridians | show 🗑
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| Longitude | show 🗑
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| Latitude | show 🗑
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