This is a review of the entire Ninth Edition AP Human Geography Book (by James M. Rubenstein). I have included words that I think are important, or words that are hard to remember.
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| 63681664 | Diaspora | The dispertion of a social group from it's historical homeland | |
| 63681665 | Quaternary Sector | The portion of the economy concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services. | |
| 63681666 | Ancillary Activities | Economic activities that increase and thereby benefit from agglomerations in particular regions. | |
| 63681667 | Megalopolis | A very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns). | |
| 63681668 | Salinization | The salt content in a sample of soil. | |
| 63681669 | Gravity Model | A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other. | |
| 63681670 | Isoline | A line on a map that connects similar places. | |
| 63681671 | Dependent Centers | Fourth-level cities that provide relatively unskilled jobs and depend for their economic health on decisions made in the higher level cities. | |
| 63681672 | Basic Sector | Those products or services of an urban economy that are exported outside the city itself, earning income for the community. | |
| 63681673 | Zones of Diasamenity | Same as "squatter settlements", are located near the center of a city. | |
| 63681674 | Exclusive Economic Zone | An area extending 200 Nautical miles out to sea; Coastal country has complete control of natural resources, etc. | |
| 63681675 | Economic Restructuring | A multidimensional process of change in the nations economy. 1) the transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a service based-economy. 2)increasing globalization 3) technological change 4) the increasing concentration of capital in the hands of few. | |
| 63682437 | Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area | An area in the US with two or more adjacent metropolitan areas with overlapping commuting patterns. | |
| 63683508 | Autonomous Religion | A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally. | |
| 63683510 | 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. | |
| 63683511 | Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) | Amount of oxygen required by an aquatic bacteria to decompose a given load of organic waste; a measure of water pollution | |
| 63683513 | Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. | |
| 63879102 | Imperialism | Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society. | |
| 63879103 | Ecumene | Occupied by permanent human settlement. | |
| 63879104 | Syncretic | Characterized or brought about by the combination of different forms of belief or practice | |
| 63879106 | Terroir | The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes | |
| 63879107 | Deglomeration | The process of industrial deconcentration in response to technological advances and/or increasing costs due to congestion and competition. | |
| 63879108 | Territorial Morphology | A state's geographical shape, which can affect its spatial cohension and political viability. | |
| 63879109 | Devolution | The statuatory granting of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to government at the subnational level | |
| 63879110 | Allocation | The process of assigning activities, costs, or facilities (e.g.) space to a certain organizational unit | |
| 63879111 | Malapportionment | A system in which one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread across a space | |
| 63880855 | Semiotics | The study of signs and symbols of all kinds, what they mean, and how they relate to the things or ideas they refer to, as means of language or communications. | |
| 63880856 | Fascist Regimes | Radical and autoritarian nationalist political ideology and a corporist economic ideology. | |
| 63880857 | Supranationalism | A method of decision-making in multi-national political communities, wherein power is transferred or delegated to an authority by governments of member states. | |
| 63880858 | Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area. | |
| 63880859 | Structural Adjustment Program | Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling publicly owned utilities to private corporations, and charging citizens more for services. | |
| 63881351 | Vernacular Region (Perceptual Region) | An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity | |
| 63881352 | Winnow | To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind. | |
| 63881993 | Natality | The production of new individuals by birth, hatching, germination, or cloning | |
| 63881994 | Secularists | People who focus on the natural world and ignore or deny the supernatural world | |
| 64064906 | Centroid | An egual distance between three different points (Example- the point that is an equal distance away from three different cities.) | |
| 64065846 | Possiblism | This theory claims that environmental restraints and opportunities to people living in various regions | |
| 64065847 | Principle Meridian | A north south line designed in the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US. | |
| 65853198 | Cultural Landscape | The forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans. | |
| 65853199 | Christaller's model of central place | Is useful for describing a settlement whose primary function is to provide support for the population in its hinterland. | |
| 65853200 | American Midwest's Land Parcels | This area tends to have rectilinear land parcels because the federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth centuray imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape | |
| 65853201 | Footloose Industry | Industry that locate in a wide variety of places without a significant change in its cost of transportation, land, labor, and capital. An examle of this is the computer chip industry. | |
| 65853202 | Sawah | Land used for growing rice; flooded fields | |
| 65853306 | Balkanized | A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other. |
