AP Flashcards

10845588842	Agricultural Density	The number of farmers per unit area of farmland. This may mean that the country has inefficient agriculture.	0
10845593305	Arithmetic Density	The total number of objects in an area. It is used to distribute population in different countries.	1
10845595551	Baselines	The east:west lines separating a township.	2
10845798440	Cartography	The science of mapmaking.	3
10845801100	Concentration	The extent of a feature spread over space.	4
10845803058	Connections	Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.	5
10845805090	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread of diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.	6
10845811488	Cultural ecology	The geographic study of human:environment relationships.	7
10845813460	Cultural Landscape	A combination of cultural features such as language and religion.	8
10845813462	Culture	The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms.	9
10845816560	Density	The frequency with which something occurs in space.	10
10845818098	Diffusion	The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time.	11
10845820209	Distance Decay	Contact decreases with increasing distance and eventually disappears.	12
10845822592	Distribution	The arrangement of a feature in space. The three main properties of distribution are density, concentration, and pattern.	13
10845889621	Environmental Determinism	Understanding relationships between physical environment and human actions. How physical environment caused social development.	14
10845891384	Expansion Diffusion	The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.	15
10845896997	Three process	Hierarchical diffusion, Contagious diffusion, Stimulus diffusion.	16
10845899685	Formal Region	Also called a uniform region or a homogeneous region, is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.	17
10845901524	Functional Region	Also called a nodal region, is an area organized around a node or focal point.	18
10845904350	Geographic Information System	GIS is a computer system that captures, stores, query, analyze, and display geographic data.	19
10845906220	Globalization	A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope	20
10845908149	Greenwich Mean Tim	The international agreement designated the time at the prime meridian. It is the master reference time for all points on Earth.	21
10845910282	Hearth	The place from which an innovation originates. Something originates at a hearth or node and diffuses from there to another place.	22
10845912618	Hierarchical Diffusion:	The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places.	23
10845914078	International Date Line	Move the clock backwards 24 hours if you are heading eastward. Move the clock ahead 24 hours if you are heading westward.	24
10845914141	Land Ordinance of 1785	Divided much of the country into a system of townships and ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settlers in the west.	25
10845916437	Latitude	The numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel.	26
10845927467	Map	A two dimensional, or flat representation of the earth.	27
10845918111	Longitude	The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridian dran on a glove and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0°)	28
10845927468	Mental map	An internal representation of a portion of the earth based on personal impression	29
10845930198	Meridian	An arc drawn on a map between the north and the south pole	30
10845932010	Parallel	A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at high proportions of the population	31
10845934136	Pattern	Geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study	32
10845940211	Physiological Density	The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.	33
10845940212	Place	A specific part on earth	34
10845942081	Polder	Land created by the dutch by draining water from the area	35
10845946610	Possibilism	Theory of environment causing human limitations	36
10845948231	Prime Meridian	The meridian, designed as 0° longitude, passes through the Royal observatory at Greenwich England	37
10845949515	Projection	The system used to transfer location from Earth's surface to flat map.	38
10845953921	Region	an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends	39
10845955847	Regional Studies	Geography that emphasizes the relationship between social and physical in study areas.	40
10845959173	Relocation Diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people.	41
10845960684	Remote Sensing	The acquisition of data about earth's surface	42
10845964342	Resource	A substance in the environment that is useful to people economically and technologically feasible to access and socially acceptable to use	43
10845964343	Scale	Portion of earth on map and real life	44
10845966160	Section	a square normally one mile on a side	45
10845967912	Site	Physical character of a place.	46
10845970359	Situation	The location of a place relative to other people	47
10845973977	Space	Physical gap of interval between Objects	48
10845974770	Space Time Compression	The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transport system	49