All of the new vocabulary from the first unit of AP Human Geography.
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| 1599422164 | aggregation | a large group or collection of people, animals, or things. | 0 | |
| 1599422165 | agricultural density | the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | 1 | |
| 1599422166 | arithmetic density | the total number of people divided by the total land area. | 2 | |
| 1599422167 | base line | an east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. | 3 | |
| 1599422168 | cartography | science or art of making maps | 4 | |
| 1599422169 | choropleth map | a thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area | 5 | |
| 1599422170 | concentration | how dispersed people are in the world | 6 | |
| 1599422171 | connections | relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 7 | |
| 1599422172 | contagious diffusion | the rapid diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 8 | |
| 1599422173 | cultural ecology | geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. | 9 | |
| 1599422174 | cultural landscape | a combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features. | 10 | |
| 1599422175 | culture | beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 11 | |
| 1599422176 | density | the amount of people in a specified area | 12 | |
| 1599422177 | diffusion | the spread of an idea, innovation, or tradition | 13 | |
| 1599422178 | distance decay | the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 14 | |
| 1599422179 | distribution | the arrangement of something across Earth's surface. | 15 | |
| 1599422180 | dot map | maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon, such as a population. | 16 | |
| 1599422181 | environmental determinism | the idea that cultures are formed by the surrounding environment | 17 | |
| 1599422182 | expansion diffusion | a quickly growing diffusion | 18 | |
| 1599422183 | formal region | an area where the people share certain characteristics or traits | 19 | |
| 1599422184 | functional region | an area where people do similar things | 20 | |
| 1599422185 | GIS | a planetary mapping system that uses remote sensing to map topography | 21 | |
| 1599422186 | GPS | a system of satellites that determine where on earth you are | 22 | |
| 1599422187 | globalization | an action where the entire world is involved | 23 | |
| 1599422188 | GMT | the time at the prime meridian (Greenwich, England) | 24 | |
| 1599422189 | hearth | the place where diffusion starts | 25 | |
| 1599422190 | human geography | the study of why people are where they are | 26 | |
| 1599422191 | human-environmental interaction | the theme of geography that explains how people interact with their environment | 27 | |
| 1599422192 | international date line | the point opposite the prime meridian where time moves forward or goes back a day when crossed (180 degrees longitude) | 28 | |
| 1599422193 | isoline map | a map with lines that connect points of equal value (Ex: Elevation) | 29 |
