AP Flashcards

4822158856	Cartography	The science of mapmaking	0
4822162220	Cultural Landscape	Unifying characteristics that make an area of land unique	1
4822166468	Sequent Occupance	The notion that, throughout history, successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place	2
4822173214	Space	Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects	3
4822175383	Scale	Relationship between the real world object and the representation of that object on the map	4
4822180162	Projection	Scientifically transferring a 3D location on the Earth's surface into a flat map	5
4822184498	GIS	Computer application that stores, analyzes, and layers different geographic information	6
4822189193	Remote Sensing	Using satellites or other long-range methods to acquire information about the Earth's surface	7
4822192412	GPS	Accurately determines the precise location of something on Earth	8
4822194356	Distribution	The arrangement of something across the Earth's surface	9
4822196788	Clustered	Where geographic phenomenon is found close together across the Earth	10
4822200166	Dispersed	Where geographic phenomenon is found further apart across the Earth	11
4822202359	Pattern	The geometric arrangement of objects in space	12
4822208257	Arithmetic Density	People to land	13
4822209198	Physiology Density	People to farmland	14
4822211808	Hearth	The region/place from which innovative ideas originate	15
4822214230	Diffusion	The process of spreading a feature or trend from one place to another over time	16
4822222432	Relocation Diffusion	The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another	17
4822226325	Expansion Diffusion	The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process	18
4822230362	Hierachical Diffusion	The spread of an idea from persons of authority/power to other persons or from large urban centers to smaller cities/places	19
4822233886	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population	20
4822235984	Stimulus Diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though the characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse	21
4822241185	Environmental Determinism	A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the physical environment caused human activities	22
4822247818	Possibilism	The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment	23
4822252408	Absolute Location	Position on Earth's surface using the coordinate system of longitude and latitude	24
4822255441	Relative Location	Position on Earth's surface relative to other features	25
4822257857	Site	The physical characteristics of a place	26
4822260263	Situation	The location of a place relative to other places	27
4822261887	Globalization	A force or process that makes a local concept become a global phenomenon	28
4822264395	Connectivity	The relationships among people and ideas across the barrier of space	29
4822267471	Accessibility	The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations	30
4822274020	Space Time Compression	The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place	31
4822278225	Friction of Distance	Based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome	32
4822288286	Distance Decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from it origin	33
4822295451	Networks	A set of interconnected nodes without a center	34
4822298143	Formal Region	(Uniform) or homogeneous region is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics	35
4822303790	Functional Region	(Nodal Region) Area organized around a node or focal point	36
4822307399	Vernacular Region	(Perceptual Region) Is a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity	37
4822311277	Toponym	Often referred to as a place's given name on Earth	38