AP GEO FLash Cards Flashcards

Section 1

200361497	Agricultural Density	The Ratio of the number of farmers tot eh total amount of land suitable for agriculture
200361498	Arithmetic Density	The total number of people divided by the total land area
200361499	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.
200361500	Cartography	science or art of making maps
200361501	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
200361502	Diffusion	the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
200361503	Distance decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
200361504	Enviromental Determinism	a 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that srgued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography therefore was the study of how the physical enviroment caused human activities
200361505	Expansion diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
200361506	Geographic information system	a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data
200361507	Globalization	Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
200361508	Hearth	the region from which innovative ideas originate
200361509	Hierarchical diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
200361510	Location	The position of anything on Earth's surface.
200361511	Map	a two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
200361512	PAttern	The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
200361513	Physiological density	The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
200361514	Polder	Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
201275334	Concentration	the spread of something over a given area
201275335	connections	Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
201275336	cultural ecology	Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
201275337	Cultural landscape	Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
201275338	Culture	The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition
201275339	Density	the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
201275340	Distribution	The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
201275341	Formal Region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
201275342	Functional Region	An area organized around a node or focal point
201275343	GPS	A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and recievers.
201275344	Greenwhich mean time	the time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian or 0 longitude
201275345	International Date Line	An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.
201275346	land ordinance of 1785	A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
201292891	Latitude	THe numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on the globe and measuring distance north south of the equator.
201292892	Longitude	The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°).
201292893	Mental Map	An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located.
201292894	Meridian	An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.
201292895	parallel	A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
201292896	place	A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
201292897	Possibilism	The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
201292898	Prime Meridian	meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)
201292899	Principal Meridian	A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States.
201292900	Projection	The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.
201313740	Region	An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
201313741	Regional studies	An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phemona in a particular area study (cultural landscape)
201313742	Relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
201313743	Remote sensing	The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.
201313744	Resource	A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
201313745	scale	Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
201313746	section	A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections.
201313747	site	The physical character of a place
201313748	situation	the location of a place relative to other places
201313749	space	The physical gap or interval between two objects.
201313750	Space-time compression	the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems
201313751	stimulus diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
201313752	toponym	The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.
201313753	Township	A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships.
201313754	transitional corporation	A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located
201313755	uneven development	The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy.
201313756	Vernacular region	An area that people believe to exsist as part of their cultural identity (perceptual region)