AP Human Geography (Rubenstein) Review Terms

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.