AP Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards

4775803113	cartography	The science of making maps.	0
4775804511	contagious diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.	1
4775808805	cultural ecology	The geographic study of how humans and the environment interact.	2
4775835122	culture	Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.	3
4775835123	density	the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.	4
4775835124	diffusion	the process of spread of a feature or trend from on place to another over time.	5
4775835649	distance-decay	the diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	6
4775835650	distribution	the arrangement of something across Earth's surface	7
4775836564	environmental determinism	study of how the physical environment caused human activities.	8
4775836565	Equator	0 degrees latitude	9
4775840225	expansion diffusion	spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.	10
4775840226	formal region	(or uniform region) an area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics	11
4775841032	functional region	(or nodal region) an area organized around a node or focal point	12
4775841033	GIS	a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data	13
4775841034	GPS	a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.	14
4775841049	hierarchical diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.	15
4775842068	hearth	the region from which innovative ideas originate	16
4775842069	International Date Line	follows 180 degrees longitude, cross it towards America and clock moves back 24 hours	17
4775843390	latitude	numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator	18
4775843391	longitude	numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring east and west of the prime meridian.	19
4775843392	Mercator projection	shape is only distorted a little shape is consistent landmasses closer to the poles are exaggerated	20
4775846023	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.	21
4775847667	Prime Meridian	0 degrees longitude	22
4775848846	projection	system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map	23
4775848847	relocation diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another	24
4775852416	remote sensing	acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods	25
4775852417	Robinson projection	a compromise map projection showing the poles as lines rather than points and more accurately portraying high latitude lands and water to land ratio	26
4775852418	scale	the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole	27
4775852419	site	physical character of a place	28
4775853122	situation	location of a place relative to another place	29
4775853123	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	30
4775853985	spatial association	relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature	31
4775854930	stimulus diffusion	spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected	32
4775854931	time zones	any of the 24 longitudinal areas into which the world is divided and within which the same standard time is used	33
4775854932	toponym	name given to a place on the of Earth's surface	34
4775856059	uneven development	increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy	35
4775856060	vernacular region	(or perceptual region) an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.	36