AP Flashcards

5738122614	eucmene	portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement	0
5738122615	Cartography	Originated from Chinese, Greek, and North African Scholars...the art of map making	1
5738122616	Erastothenes	Head librarian of Alexandria during the third century BCE , was one of early cartographers	2
5738122617	Ptolemy	published his "Guide to Geography" which included rough maps of the landmasses.	3
5738210048	George Perkins Marsh	Made "Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action" provided first description of the extent to which Human's had shaped natural systems	4
5738350197	cultural geography	Cultural landscapes , human-environment relations	5
5738350198	quantitative revolution	stressed the use of empirical measurements and modern technology to explain geographic patterns	6
5738350199	remote sensing	process of capturing images of earth from airborne platforms	7
5738350200	Geographic Information System (GIS)	are a family of software programs that enables geographers to map, analyze, and model spatial data	8
5738350201	Human Geography	Broadly defined as the study of human activities on Earth's surface but has major subcategories	9
5738350202	Functional Regions	referred to as nodal regions , tie together because of social and economic relations	10
5738350203	formal region	have characteristics that are relatively uniform from one place to another within a region	11
5738350204	perceptual region	a region which exists in them minds of people and varies, such as the Deep American South	12