Ch. 1 AP Human Geo Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Absolute Location | |
| Acculturation | The changing of a culture from the meeting of two groups with distinct features |
| Assimilation | One group changing its customs and features to resemble another |
| Cartography | The science of map making |
| Clustered | |
| Cultural Ecology | How humans have adapted socially and to environment to survive and prosper. |
| Culture | The body of beliefs, materials material, and social forms significant to a group of people |
| Density | The frequency in which something exists in a given area |
| Diffusion | Process of spreading overtime |
| Relocation | Physical movement of an idea Ex. Missionaries |
| Contagious | Widespread to everyone regardless of status |
| Hierarchical | Person in power spreads ideas to lower ranks Ex. Fashion trends |
| Stimulus | Idea spreads from original hearth but is changed according to culture in area |
| Dispersed | |
| Distance-decay | The further away something is the less interactions a person would have with it |
| Distribution | The arrangement of population in relation the characteristics of area |
| GIS | Layered Satellite data Ex. Streams, roads, fields |
| GPS | Positioning of where something Ex. |
| Hearth | Origin of an idea |
| Possibilism | The mindset and theory that all is possible |
| Relative location | Where something is in relation to an object |
| Scale | The part of Earth that is being studied in relation to the whole of the Earth |
| Site | The physical character of a place Ex. Climate, water source, topography, latitude, elevation |
| Environmental Determinism | |
| Equator | The horizontal center line around the Earth |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another |
| Gender | The roles and attributes society has pinned to being masculine or femenine |
| Gravity Model | The point at which people find one destinations etc. than another. |
| Latitude | The measures of where something is north to south |
| Longitude | The measure of where something is side to side |
| Mercator Projection | stretched north to south |
| Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude |
| Peters Projection | North and south are squished |
| Projection | A system used to put locations on earth onto a flat surfaced map |
| Remote Sensing | Data collected from satellites orbiting earth |
| Situation | Synonym for Relative location |
| Syncretism | A new culture feature created by the joining of two groups |
| Time-space Compression | The reduction of time it takes to diffuse something Ex. Planes are faster than cars |
| Spatial Analysis | Explains patterns of human behavior |
| Sustainability | The use on natural resources that makes sure they are available later |
| Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth |
| Uniform Landscape | The shared popular custom in one area and another Ex. Fast food restraunts around the U.S |
| Uneven Development | Developed in one area Developing in another |
| Core | Developed Ex. America, Canada, Europe |
| Periphery | Developing Ex. South America |
| Winkle Projection | A map made through the size and shape of a circle |
| Formal Region | An area where everyone shares a common characteristic Ex. Religion, Race |
| Functional Region | Area organized around a node or focal point Ex. Shops, Transportation |
| Vernacular Region | An area in which people believe exists in their cultural identity |
| Qualitative Map | Shows data with colors and symbols |
| Dot Distribution Map | One dot represents a value or number of an object |
| Choropleth Map | Color by region |
| Graduated Symbol Map | Size of circle shows value |
| Cartogram Map | Size of region is distorted based on value of an object in the region |
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