AP Human Geography Vocab.
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| show | The spatial study of people, place, space, and environment,
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| Human Geography | show 🗑
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| show | Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders.
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| show | Observations researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences.
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| show | Description of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon (e.g., scattered or concentrated).
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| Physical Geography | show 🗑
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| Spatial Distribution | show 🗑
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| Epidemic | show 🗑
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world spatially.
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| show | Position on Earth, including both absolute location and relative location (one of the five themes of geography).
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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| Relative Location | show 🗑
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| show | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example.
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| show | Reciprocal relationship between humans and environment (one of the five themes of geography).
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| show | Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth.
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| Hearth | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| show | The idea that land can hold a measurable amount of plant and animal life.
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| show | Study of the historical interaction between humans and environment in a place, including ways humans have modified and adapted to environment.
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| Political Ecology | show 🗑
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Formal Region | show 🗑
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| show | A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture.
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| Functional Region | show 🗑
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| Nodes | show 🗑
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| Perceptual/Vernacular Region | show 🗑
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| show | Uniqueness of a location (one of the five themes of geography).
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| show | How a place is envisioned.
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| Movement | show 🗑
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Spatial Interaction | show 🗑
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| Distance | show 🗑
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| show | Ease of flow between two places.
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| show | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.
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| Expansion Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on proximity. Specific type of expansion diffusion.
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| show | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion.
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| show | A process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait.
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| Relocation Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| show | Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of successive societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape.
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| show | Geographical scope (local, national, or global) in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon.
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| Rescale | show 🗑
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| show | The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act.
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| Reference Maps | show 🗑
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| Thematic Maps | show 🗑
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| show | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features.
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| Mental Maps | show 🗑
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| show | Places within the rounds of daily activity.
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| show | Areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker.
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| Remote Sensing | show 🗑
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| show | A system of computer hardware and software designed to show, analyze, and represent geographic data (data that have locations).
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| show | Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people.
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