AP Human Geography Vocab Flashcards
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| 6737096681 | Acculturation | the process of cultural change and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures. |  | 0 |
| 6737099153 | assimilation | The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. |  | 1 |
| 6737101278 | Agglomeration | In the study of urban geography, an agglomeration is an extended town area consisting of the built-up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area. |  | 2 |
| 6737101279 | Ancillary activities | supporting activity undertaken within an enterprise in order to create the conditions within which the principal or secondary activities can be carried out |  | 3 |
| 6737140727 | Animal Domestication | to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild. |  | 4 |
| 6737143882 | Aquaculture | the rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food. |  | 5 |
| 6737143883 | Basques | Basques are indigenous to and primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria), a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France. |  | 6 |
| 6737146364 | Beaux arts | relating to the classical decorative style maintained by the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, especially in the 19th century. |  | 7 |
| 6737146365 | Biomass Fuel | Renewable organic materials, such as wood, agricultural crops or wastes, and municipal wastes, especially when used as a source of fuel or energy. Biomass can be burned directly or processed into biofuels such as ethanol and methane. |  | 8 |
| 6737150334 | Buffer State | a small neutral country, situated between two larger hostile countries, serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict. |  | 9 |
| 6737153185 | Commodity Chains | A commodity chain is a process used by firms to gather resources, transform them into goods or commodities, and finally, distribute them to consumers. It is a series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market. |  | 10 |
| 6737153186 | Conservation | a careful preservation and protection of something; especially : planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect water conservation wildlife conservation. 2 : the preservation of a physical quantity during transformations or reactions. |  | 11 |
| 6737157380 | Conurbation | an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities. |  | 12 |
| 6737157381 | Debt for nature swap | a transaction in which a foreign exchange debt owed by a developing country is transferred to another organization on the condition that the country use local currency for a designated purpose, usually environmental protection. |  | 13 |
| 6737159962 | Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. | 14 | |
| 6737159963 | Devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. |  | 15 |
| 6737162716 | Dowry | property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage |  | 16 |
| 6737162717 | E-commerce | Web-based economic activities |  | 17 |
| 6737166425 | Ecotourism | A form of tourism, based on the enjoyment of scenic areas or natural wonders, that aims to provide an experience of nature or culture in an environmentally sustainable way. |  | 18 |
| 6737166426 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |  | 19 |
| 6737166427 | Enclave | a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory |  | 20 |
| 6737168684 | Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. |  | 21 |
| 6737168685 | Exclave | A bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is separated from it by the territory of a different state. |  | 22 |
| 6737171457 | Exclusive economic zones (EEZ) | enerally a state's EEZ extends to a distance of 200 nautical miles (370 km) out from its coast. The exception to this rule occurs when EEZs would overlap; that is, state coastal baselines are less than 400 nautical miles apart. When an overlap occurs, it is up to the states to delineate the actual boundary.[1] Generally, any point within an overlapping area defaults to the most proximate state |  | 23 |
| 6737173866 | Exurbanite | Person who has left the inner city and moved to outlying suburbs or rural areas. |  | 24 |
| 6737173867 | Feedlot | a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market |  | 25 |
| 6737177517 | Footloose Industry | industry in which the cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for the location of firms |  | 26 |
| 6737177518 | Forward Capital | A capital city placed in a remote or peripheral area for economic, strategic, or symbolic reasons. |  | 27 |
| 6737181079 | Generation X | A term coined by artist and author Douglas Coupland to describe people born in the United States between the years 1965 and 1980. This post-baby-boom generation will have to support the baby boom cohort as they head into their retirement years. |  | 28 |
| 6737181080 | Geopolitics | The study of the interplay between political relations and the territorial context in which they occur. |  | 29 |
| 6737190038 | Ghetto | A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions |  | 30 |
| 6737201683 | Hobby Farmers | Farm where no one lives, but migratory workers harvest the produce |  | 31 |
| 6737201684 | Suitcase Farmers | farmers who worked in the city, but kept farms outside of town |  | 32 |
| 6737204788 | Truck Farms | The term truck farms refers to a farm where farmers produce fruits for the market. Truck farms use mechanization to produce large quantities of fruits and vegetables, which are sold to processors. |  | 33 |
| 6737204815 | Intertillage | the clearing of rows in the field through the use of hoes, rakes, & other manual equipment |  | 34 |
| 6737207839 | Irredentism | a policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a country aimed at a group of its nationals living in a neighboring country |  | 35 |
| 6737207840 | J-Curve | curve showing J-shaped or exponential growth |  | 36 |
| 6737212707 | Sustainability Land Use model | taking something from the land and replacing it with something else, renewable resources are good examples, such as the timber industry. The company cuts down trees and then replants seedlings |  | 37 |
| 6737214927 | Environmental Land Use model | Encourages people to protect the natural environment by limit in the ways in which people use it. According to this framework, people may build on and use the land in the area, but not in a way hat it damages the environment or depletes its resources. |  | 38 |
| 6737214928 | Preservationist Land Use model | This decision-making model encourages people to protect the environment by not altering the natural landscape. Preservationists view the natural environment as more important that human economic activity and believe that people should avoid exploiting untouched wilderness areas. | 39 | |
| 6737219758 | Manifest Destiny | A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. |  | 40 |
| 6737219759 | 38. Material culture & Non material culture | it includes usage, consumption, creation and trade of objects, and the behaviors, norms and rituals these objects create or take part in. The term is commonly used in archaeological and anthropological studies, specifically focusing on the material evidence which can be attributed to culture, in the past or present. Thoughts or ideas that make up a culture are called the non-material culture. In contrast to material culture, non-material culture does not include any physical objects or artifacts. Examples of non-material culture include any ideas, beliefs, values, norms that may help shape society. | 41 | |
| 6737222432 | Mental Map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. |  | 42 |
| 6737222433 | Node (as relates to geography) | a center of influence in a functional or nodal region | 43 | |
| 6737225040 | Ozone | A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of the usual two. |  | 44 |
| 6737225041 | Parallels and meridians | what is township and range based on |  | 45 |
| 6737227608 | Polyglot | a speaker of many languages |  | 46 |
| 6737227609 | Québécois | a native or inhabitant of Quebec (especially one who speaks French) |  | 47 |
| 6737231034 | Seed Planting v Vegetative Planting | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result from sexual fertilization. reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants | 48 | |
| 6737234523 | Sequent occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape |  | 49 |
| 6737234524 | Shatterbelt | a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals (e.g., Israel or Kashmir today; Eastern Europe during the Cold War,...). |  | 50 |
| 6737236312 | Special Economic Zones (SEZ) | Region offering special tax breaks, eased environmental restrictions, and other incentives to attract foreign business and investment. |  | 51 |
| 6737236313 | Staple Grains | Grains that can be stored and used throughout the year |  | 52 |
| 6737239700 | Subsidy | A government payment that supports a business or market |  | 53 |
| 6737239701 | Supranationalism | a venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives |  | 54 |
| 6737244496 | Sustainable Development | Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |  | 55 |
| 6737244497 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders |  | 56 |
| 6737246933 | UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |  | 57 |
| 6737246934 | Uniform landscape | the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another |  | 58 |
| 6737249937 | Urban revitalization | The process occurring in some urban areas experiencing inner city decay that usually involves the construction of new shopping districts, entertainment venues, and cultural attractions to entice young urban professionals back into the cities where nightlife and culture are more accessible. |  | 59 |
| 6737252151 | Vegetative Planting | reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants |  | 60 |