AP Human Chpt 1 A-L Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Agricultural Density | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. |
| Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
| Cartography | The science of making maps. |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
| Cultural Landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition. |
| Density | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. |
| Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
| Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. |
| Environmental Determinism | The study of how the physical environment caused human activities. |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
| Formal Region | An areas in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. |
| Functional Region | (Nodal Region) An areas organized around a node or focal point. |
| Geographic Information System | (GIS) A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. |
| Global Positioning System | (GPS) A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations and receivers. |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. |
| Greenwich Mean Time | (GMT) The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian. |
| Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |
| Location | The position of anything on Earth's surface. |
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