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Vocabulary for AP Human Geography from Chapter Two

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Functional Region   also known as a nodal region, area organized around a focal point  
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Vernacular Region   also known as a perceptual region, a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity  
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Mental Map   an internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface  
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Culture   body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a people  
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Cultural Ecology   geographic study of human-environment relationships  
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Possibilism   an idea that states that the physical environment may limit human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the environment  
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Polder   a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area  
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Environmental determinism   an approach that concentrates on how the physical environment causes social development  
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Globalization   a force or process that invokes the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope  
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Distribution   the arrangements of something across earth’s surface  
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Density   the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area  
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Transnational Corporation   conducts research, operates factories and sells products in many countries  
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Arithmetic density   total number of objects in an area  
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Physiological density   number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture  
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Concentration   extent of a feature’s spread over space  
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Agricultural density   number of farmer per unit of farmland  
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Pattern   the geometric arrangement of objects in space  
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Distance decay   a trailing-off phenomenon that ensues when two groups are less likely to interact the further they are from each other  
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Diffusion   process by which a characteristic spreads across space  
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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 communications and transportation systems  
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Hearth   place from which an innovation originates  
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Relocation diffusion   spread of an idea through physical movement of people across space  
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Expansion diffusion   spread of a feature from one place to another  
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Hierarchical diffusion   spread of an idea from persons of power to other persons  
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Contagious diffusion   rapid spread of an idea throughout a population  
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Stimulus diffusion   spread of an underlying principle  
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Uneven development   increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core that results from globalization of an economy  
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