AP Human Geography Unit One

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202037849	Globalization	Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something world wide is scope.
202037850	Local diversity	Differences that are maintained around the world between places/ cultural groups no matter how much globalization spreads. One of the two factors that are pulling people in opposite dirrections.
202037851	Map	A 2D or flat-scale model of Earth's surface or part of it.
202037852	Place	A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.
202037853	Scale	The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth has a whole.
202037854	Space	The physical gap or interval between two objects.
202037855	Connections	Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
202037856	Cartography	science or art of making maps
202037857	Map Scale	compares a distance on a map with a distance in the real world. Displayed in 3 ways a fraction/ ratio, a written statement, and/or a graphic bar scale.
202037858	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.
202037859	Sections	Township squares are subdivided into these, each being one square mile, or 640 acres. Townships are divided into 36 of these.
202037860	GIS	A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. The key to GIS is geocoding: the position of any object on Earth can be meausured and recorded with mathmatical precison and then stored in a computer. A map can be created by asking the computer to retrive a number of stored objects and combine them to form an image.
202037861	Remote Sensing	The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.
202037862	GPS	a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver. It is precise.
202037863	Location	The position that something on Earth's surface occupies.
202037864	Toponym	A name given to a place on Earth. It may be named after its founder or a famous community member etc. Example: Washington. The first president.
202037865	Site	The physical character of a place. Examples: Climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude and elevation
202037866	Situation	The location of a place relative to other places.
202037867	Meridian	An arc drawn between the north and south poles.
202037868	Parallel	An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator.
202037869	Longitude	Distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole).
202037870	Prime Meridian	Meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)
202037871	Latitude	The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
202037872	Greenwich Mean Time	The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude.
202037873	International Date Line	When you cross the IDL which for the most part follows the 180 degree longitude you move the clock 24 hours/one day if you are going eastward; if you are going westward you move the clock back 24 hours/one day.
202037874	Cultural Landscape	The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
202037875	Regional Studies	An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phemona in a particular area study (cultural landscape)
202037876	Formal Region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics.
202037877	Functional Region	A region organized around a node or focal point. Diminishes in importance outward
202037878	Vernacular Region	An area that people believe to exsist as part of their cultural identity (perceptual region).