AP Human Geography – Vocabulary Lists Compiled by Martha Sharma, Hilton Head Completed by WHS-APHG Block 1 2006-07
Subject:
Human Geography [1]
I. Geography – Nature & Perspectives
Sequent occupance: The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. This is an important concept in geography because it symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings.
Cultural landscape: Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. This is the essence of how humans interact with nature.
Arithmetic density: The total number of people divided by the total land area. This is what most people think of as density; how many people per area of land.