AP Human Geography Vocabulary Terms from Unit 1
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| Fieldwork | show 🗑
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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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| show | The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals and topography
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| show | Pertaining to space on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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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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| Pandemic | show 🗑
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| Epidemic | show 🗑
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| show | Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space
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| 5 Themes | show 🗑
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| show | The geographical situation of people and things
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| show | An attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated
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| show | The reciprocal relationship between humans and environment
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| show | an area on the earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon
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| show | The uniqueness of a location
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| show | State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character
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| show | Belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| Spatial Interaction | show 🗑
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| show | The measurement of the physical space between two places
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| Accessibility | show 🗑
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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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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| Sequent Occupance | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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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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| show | The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude
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| Global Positioning System | show 🗑
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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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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| show | Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
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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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| show | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed to the user
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| Rescale | show 🗑
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| show | A type of region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it
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| Functional Region | show 🗑
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| Perceptual Region | show 🗑
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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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| show | A single element of normal practice in a culture
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| Culture Complex | show 🗑
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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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| show | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, form its place or origin to a wider area
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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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| Cultural Barrier | show 🗑
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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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| show | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spread by passing first among the most connected places or peoples
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| Stimulus Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones
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| show | Ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions
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| show | The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development
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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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| show | The process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge
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| Divergent Boundary | show 🗑
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| Convergent Boundary | show 🗑
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| Transform Boundary | show 🗑
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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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| Alluvial | show 🗑
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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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| show | A region of southwestern Kentucky, bounded by the Tennessee River on the east, the Ohio River on the north, and the Mississippi River on the west, that was ceded to the United States by the Chickasaw Peoples in 1818
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| Western Coal Fields Region | show 🗑
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| Pennyroyal Region | show 🗑
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| show | It makes up the northern part of the state where a majority of the state's population has lived and developed its largest cities
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| Knobs Region | show 🗑
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| Eastern Mountains & Coal Fields Region | show 🗑
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| show | The region between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
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| show | A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles, most notably the International Date Line and Prime Meridian
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| show | The distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes
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