AP Flashcards

7558473411	Place	A specific location	0
7558473412	Region	An area on earth marked by a specific pattern	1
7558473413	map scale	the relationship between a distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground	2
7558473414	large scale map	Cities and towns	3
7558473415	small scale map	World maps or maps of large regions	4
7558473416	Cartography	The practice of making maps	5
7558473417	distortion	The act of changing the truth to give people a false idea	6
7558473418	GIS	A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.	7
7558473419	GPS (global positioning system)	A radio navigation system thqt lets anyone in all elements know their location	8
7558473420	remote sensing	Using satellite to detect and classify objects on earth	9
7558473421	absolute location	The location of a place based on a fixed point on earth	10
7558473422	relative location	the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places	11
7558473423	toponym	A places name derived from a topographical feature	12
7558473424	Site vs situation	The location and growth if a settlement depended up its site and situation	13
7558473425	Latitude	Distance north or south of the equator	14
7558473426	Parallel	Another name for a line of latitude.	15
7558473427	Equator	an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles	16
7558473428	Tropic of Capricorn	23.5 degrees south	17
7558473429	Tropic of Cancer	23.5 degrees North	18
7558473430	Longitude	E/w coordinates	19
7558473431	Meridians	A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place	20
7558473432	Prime Meridian	0 degrees longitude	21
7558473433	Greenwich Mean Time	the time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude	22
7558473434	International date line	Passrs through the mid pacific ocean	23
7558473435	Regions	Has definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries	24
7558473436	Formal uniform region	Defined formal by government or other structures	25
7558473437	Functional nodal region	Area organized around a node or focal pont	26
7558473438	vernacular region	Defined by subjective perceptions	27
7558473439	cultural landscape	the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape	28
7558473440	Culture	The sum total of the knowledge, attitude and habitual behavior patterns share and transmitted by the members of a society	29
7558473441	Globalization	The increasing interdependence of citizens and nations across the world.	30
7558473442	Transnational corporation	Incorporated or unincorporated enterprises comprising parent enterprises and their foreign affiliates	31
7558473443	Globalization of culture	Transmission of ideas, values etc arount the world	32
7558473444	Space	Defined by doreen massey and pat jess as "social relations streched out"	33
7558473445	Distribution	the action of sharing something out among a number of recipients.	34
7558473446	Density	the degree of compactness of a substance.	35
7558473447	Concentration	the action or power of focusing one's attention or mental effort.	36
7558473448	Pattern	The design of a spatial distrubution	37
7558473449	Land Ordinance of 1785	Where settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west	38
7558473450	connection	A relationship in which a thing is linked with something else	39
7558473451	Diffusion	The spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture element or some other phenomenon	40
7558473452	Hearth	The area where an idea or cultural trait originates	41
7558473453	relocation diffusion	the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another	42
7558473454	expansion diffusion	the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area	43
7558473455	Hierarchical Diffusion	an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples	44
7558473456	Contagious Diffusion	Controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person	45
7558473457	Stimulus diffusion	Which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the intro of a cultural trait from another place	46
7558473458	Space time compression	The increasing sons of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer even though their distances are the same	47
7558473459	Unequal access	When not everyone has the same amount of access to the internet	48
7558473460	Uneven development	Persistent differences in levels and rates of economic development between different sectors of the economy	49
7558473461	Resources	A source or supply or support	50
7558473462	Renewable vs non renewable resource	Resources that can be regenerated as they are exploited versus resources that are present in quantities because they are not self replenishing or take an extrodinarily long time to replenish	51
7558473463	sustainablility	The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level	52
7558473464	Conservation	The action of conserving something in particular	53
7558473465	Preservation	The action of preserving something	54
7558473466	Abiotic	Non-living	55
7558473467	Biotic	Relating to a resulting from living things especially in their ecological relations	56
7558473468	Climate	The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over longperiod	57
7558473469	Ecosystem	A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment	58
7558473470	Erosion and depletion of nutrients	Raising nutrients, polluted soil	59
7558473471	Cultural Ecology	The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment	60
7558473472	Environmental determinism	The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development	61
7558473473	Possibilism	viewpoint that people, not environments, are the dynamic forces of cultural development	62