AP Human Geography Unit 1

297685389	What are 3 types of regions?	dry lands, wet lands, cold lands, high lands.
297685390	Scale	The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
297685391	Large Scale	A relatively small ratio between map units and ground units. Large-scale maps usually have higher resolution and cover much smaller regions than small-scale maps.
297685392	Small Scale	Map scale ratio in which the ratio of units on the map to units on the earth is quite small; usually depict large areas
297685393	Spatial Scale	The relationship between any phenonmenon and the Earth as the whole
297685394	Global Scale	Interations occurring at the scale of the world, in a global setting.
297685395	Regional Scale	Interations occuring within a region, in a regional setting.
297685396	Local Scale	A spatial scale that is essentially equivalent to a community.
297685397	Arithmetic Density	The total number of people divided by the total land area.
297685398	Physiological Density	The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
297685399	Agricultural Density	The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
297685400	Clustered	clustered together but not coherent.
297685401	Dispersed Concentration	when phenomenon are relatively far apart
297685402	Distance Decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
297685403	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
297685404	Map Projection	a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude
297685405	Distortion	a change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map
297685406	Graduated Symbol Map	uses different size dots to represent different ammounts
297685407	Dot Distribution Map	Maps is which a dot represents a certain number of a population
297685408	Choropleth Map	a thematic map that uses, tones or colors to represent data as average values per unit area
297685409	Isoline Map	Map displaying lines that connect points of equal value; for example, a map showing elevation levels
297685410	Cartogram Map	map where the size and shape of the landmass is determined by specific data (Ana C.)
297685411	Hierarchical Diffusion	The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
297685412	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
297685413	Relocation Diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
297685414	Stimulus Diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
297685415	Core Countries	the industrialized capitalist countries on which periphery countries and semi-periphery countries depend.
297685416	Periphery Countries	Less developed. Dependent upon core countries (pop. growth was 6.1 bil in 2000 in periphery countries, where core countries have stayed pretty much the same)
297685417	Hearth	The area where an idea or cultural trait originates
297685418	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.
297685419	Environmental Determinism	the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development
297685420	Site	The physical character of a place or location.
297685421	Toponym	The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.
297685422	Longitude	an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
297685423	Latitude	an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator.