AP Flashcards

7237066354	Arable land	Land suited for agriculture	0
7237066355	Arithmetic Density	The ratio of the number of objects (or people) in a given land area	1
7237066356	absolute location	The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0° to 90° north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0° to 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian passing through Greenwich, England. It can also be expressed as an address.	2
7237066357	built environment	The man made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.	3
7237066358	Cartography	The art and science of mapmaking	4
7237066359	Climate	The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time	5
7237066360	Concentration	The spread of something over a given area (Clustered aka agglomerated? Dispersed aka scattered?)	6
7237066361	Conservation	The sustainable management of a natural resource	7
7237066362	Cultural ecology	Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships	8
7237066363	cultural landscape	the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape	9
7237066364	Culture	The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition	10
7237066365	Density	The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area	11
7237066366	Diffusion	The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time	12
7237066367	Distance Decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin	13
7237066368	Distribution	The arrange of something across earths surface	14
7237066369	Ecology	The study of ecosystems	15
7237066370	environmental determinism	A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities	16
7237066371	expansion diffusion	The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.	17
7237066372	Formal Uniform region	(also known as homogeneous region) An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics	18
7237066373	friction of distance	This concept is based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. Because of this "friction," spatial interactions will tend to take place more often over shorter distances; quantity of interaction will decline with distance.	19
7237066374	Functional nodal region	A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. (Activities focused around a node and spread out from this node)	20
7237066375	Globalization	The intensification of worldwide interconnectedness associated with the increased speed and magnitude of cross-border flows of trade, investment, and finance, and processes of migration, cultural diffusion, and communication	21
7237066376	Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas originate	22
7237066377	Heirarchical diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places (Subset of Expansion Diffusion)	23
7237066378	Mental map	a map that a person pictures in his or her mind	24