ap test 1 Flashcards

4770563512	spatial diffusion	the way that culture spreads through space over time	0
4770564179	contagious	spreads because of the proximity of carriers; ex:harlem shake, keep calm, call me maybe dance; spreads all over	1
4770570994	heirarchal	in the big cities; fast food, fashion, clothing	2
4770572396	stimulus	a spread of an idea: takes another persons idea and adds it to theirs; ex: apple vs pc	3
4770578139	isoline map	weather map	4
4770580044	small scale	the entire world	5
4770580316	large scale	a state, counties	6
4770581399	small scale	less detail, more area	7
4770581863	large scale	more detail, less area	8
4770587222	inquiry	geographers often use this type of investigative method to examine issues	9
4770590057	legend, scale, title source, date	key elements on a map	10
4770595609	site characteristics include	the unique physical and human characteristics of a location	11
4770596598	situation	where something is located in relation to something else	12
4770597526	choropleth map	shows areas with statistical values in three to five categories	13
4770602417	sense of place	the unique physical and human attributes that gives a place character	14
4770605974	meridians	converge at the north and south poles	15
4770606931	longitude	numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians	16
4770610233	polder	piece of land created by draining the area	17
4770615755	ratio or fraction scale	the numerical ratio between distances in a map and earth's surface; 1:24000	18
4770616521	written scale	describes the relationship between map and earth distances in words; 1 inch equals 1 mile	19
4770618961	graphic scale	consists of a bar line marked to show distances on earths surface	20
4770620887	shape, distance, relative size, direction	what can be distorted on maps	21
4770622338	interruption	eastern and western hemispheres are separated into two pieces	22
4770623933	robinson projection	useful for displaying information across oceans	23
4770652001	mercator projection	shape distorted very little, direction is consistent, map is rectangular, grossly distorted by the poles	24
4770680989	meridian	an arc between the north and south poles; longitude	25
4770685619	paralell	a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians; latitude	26
4770688889	formal region	everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristic; ex: common language, same laws, same climate	27
4770690118	functional region	an area organized around a nodal point; ex: police station, fire station,	28
4770694429	vernacular region	cultural; ex: food type, languages, the south,	29
4770698777	density	the frequency in which something occurs in space	30
4770700090	concentration	the extent of a feature's spread over space	31
4770702315	pattern	geometric arrangement of objects in space	32
4770705109	conservation	the sustainable use and management of earth's natural resources to meet human needs	33
4770707333	preservation	the maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible	34
4770710871	geographers	identify important locations, ask where and why, organize spatially	35
4770712344	historians	identify dates, ask when and why, organize chronologically	36
4773478065	hearth	a place from which an innovation originates	37
4773481904	relocation	the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another; ex: a european home design being brought to america	38
4773816988	distance decay	the farther away two peoples are the less likley they are to talk	39
4773821028	space-time compression	the reduction time it takes for something to reach another place	40
4773824175	renewable	produced in nature more rapidly than its consumed by humans	41
4773825610	nonrenewable	produced in nature slower that its consumed	42
4773827792	atmosphere	thin layer of gases surrounding the earth	43
4773829670	hydrosphere	all the water on or near earths surface	44
4773830614	lithosphere	earths crust and a portion of upper mantle below the crust	45
4773835956	biosphere	all of earths living organisms	46