AP Flashcards

4809548193	Cartography	Making maps/ drawing maps/ map of California is a cartograph	0
4809548194	Diffusion	The spread of an idea, thought or good/ spreading things/ fry sauce was diffused from Utah	1
4809577546	Contagious Diffusion	Rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population/ something that spreads by contact via info/ fry sauce might start in Utah then spread to Nevada then Nevada might spread it to other states	2
4809587006	Cultural ecology	Study of human adaption to social and physical environment/ how u adapt to things/ might adapt to a new friend group	3
4814445847	Culture	Human achievement regarded collectively/ what we do as a social group/ making clay pots might be part of your culture	4
4814509159	Density	Compactness of a substance/ how much is in a certain thing/ density of a rubber ball	5
4814509160	Distance decay	Distance on cultural or spatial interactions/ farther away people go the less they interact/ buyer and seller move to a different part of the city they experience distance decay	6
4814615092	Distribution	Action of sharing something out among a number of recipients/ sharing info to different people/ he distributed the data to his co workers	7
4814615093	Environmental determinism	Environment makes a challenge for humans/ environment forces us in some way/ Mount Everest is an environment determinism	8
4814615094	Equator	Imaginary Horizontal arc that runs across the globe/ the arc that goes across the earth/ Africa is in the equator	9
4814615095	Expansion diffusion	Trend is spread outward from its starting place/ trend spread outward/ joggers might have had an expansion diffusion	10
4814615096	Formal region	Places with same characteristics in the sane area/ area with same characteristics in one place/ same buildings, color of house	11
4814615097	Friction of distance	Distance requires money or effort to overcome/ airplane ride costs money and time	12
4814615098	Functional region	Location is made around a node/ place is made around a center place/ downtown SLC was made and SLC was made around it	13
4814615099	GIS	Satellite that forms maps using images/ google maps	14
4814615100	GPS	Global Positioning System, that provides location and time/ satellite that shows where u are/ GPS maps	15
4814615101	Hierarchical diffusion	Hierarchical diffusion is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or place/ idea that spreads from one person to authority to different places/ car industry might spread with hierarchical diffusion	16
4814615102	Hearth	Originating place of anything/ starting place/ hearth of Americans is Europe but we traveled here	17
4814615103	International date line	Vertical line 180 degrees east or west of prime meridian/ line east or west of meridian	18
4814615104	Latitude	Imaginary Arc that goes east to west on the globe used for navigating/ 38 degrees latitude	19
4814615105	Longitude	Imaginary line that runs north and south used for navigating/ 42 degrees longitude	20
4814615106	Mercator projection	Is a map that correctly uses longitude and latitude but messes up size/ space right size wrong	21
4814615107	Possibilism	When we overcome natures boundaries/ we overcome nature/ Mount Everest used to be impossible to climb but we overcame it	22
4814615108	Projection	Presentation of an image, trying to make a sphere appear on a map	23
4814615109	Relocation diffusion	Spread of an idea through physical interaction/ spreading a disease	24
4814615110	Remote sensing	Scanning of earth by aircraft/ scanning pics via aircraft/ GIS	25
4814615111	Robinson projection	Map that shows correct size and space	26
4814615112	Scale	Ration between model and actual globe/ ratio of world to model/ map, small globe	27
4814615113	Site	Where the place actually is/ absolute location/ where dans is	28
4814615114	Situation	Where the place is in relation to other places/ dans is by bowling alley and by great clips	29
4814615115	Space time compression	Bringing people together in connectivity even though they might still be the same distance away/ people are connecting closer from greater distances/ connecting with other countries and we are closer together	30
4814615116	Spatial analysis	Examining locations places and space around the w	31
4814615117	Stimulus diffusion	People receive a culture element but make it unique/ making others culture your own but changing it a bit	32
4814615118	Time zones	24 hour different zones that change by 1 hour by each time zone/ California and Utah have different time zones	33
4814615119	Toponym	Places name/ SLC	34
4814615120	Uneven development	Persistent differences in levels and rates of economic development/ differences in economic development/ chile vs USA	35
4814615121	Vernacular region	Not actually on the map but the place where different social groups are/ Navajo	36
4880903550	Age distribution		37