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AP Human Chpt 1 A-L

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Agricultural Density   The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.  
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Arithmetic Density   The total number of people divided by the total land area.  
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Cartography   The science of making maps.  
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Concentration   The spread of something over a given area.  
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Contagious Diffusion   The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.  
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Cultural Landscape   Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.  
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Culture   The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition.  
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Density   The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.  
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Diffusion   The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.  
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Distance Decay   The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.  
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Distribution   The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.  
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Environmental Determinism   The study of how the physical environment caused human activities.  
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Expansion Diffusion   The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.  
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Formal Region   An areas in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics.  
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Functional Region   (Nodal Region) An areas organized around a node or focal point.  
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Geographic Information System   (GIS) A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.  
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Global Positioning System   (GPS) A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations and receivers.  
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Globalization   Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.  
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Greenwich Mean Time   (GMT) The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian.  
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Hearth   The region from which innovative ideas originate.  
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Hierarchical Diffusion   The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.  
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Location   The position of anything on Earth's surface.  
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