AP Human Geo Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| The spatial study of people, place, space, and environment. | show 🗑
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| show | Human Geography
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| Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders. | show 🗑
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| Observations researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences. | show 🗑
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| show | Patterns
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| One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of physical phenomena, including climate, environmental hazards, weather systems, animals, and topography. | show 🗑
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| show | Spatial distribution
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| show | Pandemic
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| show | Epidemic
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| Looking at where things occur, why they occur where they do, and how places are interconnected. | show 🗑
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| Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world spatially. | show 🗑
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| Position on Earth, including both absolute location and relative location (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| Precise location of a place, usually defined by latitude and longitude. | show 🗑
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| The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute. | show 🗑
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| Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. | show 🗑
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| show | Human-environment interactions
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| Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth. | show 🗑
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| show | Hearth
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| Theory in geography that humans, not environment, shape culture. | show 🗑
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| show | Carrying capacity
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| show | Cultural Ecology
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| show | Political Ecology
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| Area of Earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual commonality that makes it different from regions around it (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| show | Formal Region
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| A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture. | show 🗑
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| show | Functional Region
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| show | Nodes
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| show | Perceptual/Vernacular Region
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| Uniqueness of a location (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| Infusing a place with meaning as a result of experiences in a place. | show 🗑
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| How a place is envisioned. | show 🗑
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| Mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth (one of the five themes of geography). | show 🗑
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| Spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places. | show 🗑
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| show | Spatial Interaction
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| The measured physical space between two things. | show 🗑
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| show | Accessibility
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| show | Connectivity
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| show | Expansion Diffusion
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| show | Contagious Diffusion
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| show | Hierarchical Diffusion
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| show | Stimulus Diffusion
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| Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them. | show 🗑
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| The visible human imprint on the landscape. | show 🗑
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| Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of successive societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape. | show 🗑
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| Geographical scope (local, national, or global) in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon. | show 🗑
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| Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers and gatekeepers at another scale. | show 🗑
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| show | Context
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| show | Cartography
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| Maps showing absolute location of places and geographic features. | show 🗑
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| A map that tells a story, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon using map symbols. | show 🗑
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| Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. | show 🗑
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| show | Mental maps
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| show | Activity spaces
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| Areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker. | show 🗑
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| show | Remote sensing
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| show | Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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| Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people. | show 🗑
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| show | Culture Complex
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