AP Human Geograpy Unit 1 Flashcards

7328478537	toponym	A name given to a place on Earth	0
7328485246	Stimulus Diffusion	the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself fails to diffuse	1
7328493359	hearth	the region from which innovative ideas originate	2
7328499783	space-time compression	the reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transportation systems	3
7328513345	Vernacular region (perceptual)	an area that people exists as part of their cultural identity	4
7328520056	Relocation Diffusion	the spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from place to place	5
7328523830	distance decay	the diminished importance of and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin	6
7328536734	contagious diffusion	the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population	7
7328547274	physiological density	the number of people per arable land, which is suitable for agriculture	8
7328554354	concentration	the spread of something over a given area	9
7328560223	formal region (uniform)	an area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics	10
7328573605	acculturation	the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups	11
7328579673	assimilation	the process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group	12
7328588574	functional region (nodal)	an area organized around a node or focal point	13
7328596448	agricultural density	the ratio of number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture	14
7328601665	density	the frequency with which something exists within a given area	15
7328609095	region	an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features	16
7328619471	diffusion	the process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another over time	17
7328628346	distribution	the arrangement of something across Earth's surface	18
7328652072	geography	the study of where things are found on Earth's surface and the reasons for their locations	19
7328669303	place	a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic	20
7328676883	scale	the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole	21
7328687760	space	the physical gap or interval between two objects	22
7328694794	connection	relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space	23
7328702109	map	a 2-D or flat scale model of Earth's surface (can be used as reference and communications tool)	24
7328721084	cartography	the science of mapmaking	25
7328727189	GPS	use of satellites to pinpoint an exact location on Earth's surface	26
7328746159	Geographic Information Science (GIScience)	analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other information technologies	27
7328761554	Geographic Information System (GIS)	captures, stores, queries, and displays the geographic data	28
7328769489	remote sensing	acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods	29
7328784950	map scale	the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth	30
7328805593	The three ways map scale is represented?	ratio, graphic, and written	31
7328813525	projection	scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map	32
7328824411	Four types of distortion?	shape of an area, distance between two points, relative size of an area, and direction from one place to another	33
7328847246	meridian	an arc drawn between the North and South poles	34
7328853787	longitude	the angular distance of a place east or west of the Prime meridian	35
7328882235	parallel	a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians	36
7328914419	latitude	the angular distance of a place north or south of the equator	37
7328929915	prime meridian	located at Greenwich, England at 180 degrees longitude; all other meridians have numbers between 0 and 180 east or west relative to the prime meridian	38
7328952889	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)	The master reference time for all points on Earth	39
7329015765	International Date Line	180 degrees, reset point, move clock back 24 hours if heading east, and 24 hours forward if you are going west	40
7329040689	site	the physical character of a place	41
7329052884	situation	location of a place relative to other places	42
7329070136	culture	body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people; what people care about and take care of	43
7329089219	spatial association	occurs within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to another; income, life expectancy, crime, liquor stores	44
7329105501	globalization	a force or process that involves the entire world and result s in making something worldwide in scope	45
7329122492	transnational corporation	conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters are located	46
7329136555	pattern	geometric arrangement of objects in space	47
7329147287	What geographers look for in distribution?	ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender	48
7329162688	poststructuralist geography	how the powerful in society seek to control less powerful and how they occupy space and the disputes that result from it	49
7329173399	humanistic geography	the different ways individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meaning	50
7329193228	behavioral geography	the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space	51
7329217069	uneven development	the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy	52
7329240337	syncretism	combination of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature; a new culture is formed	53
7329260566	network	a chain of communication that connects places	54
7329274506	resource	something from the environment that is useful to people economically, technologically, able to be used, and socially acceptable to use	55
7329283305	sustainability	use of Earth's resources that ensures their availability in the future	56
7329295387	conservation and preservation	resources are used slowly for sustainability; resources not used at all	57
7329312729	three sustainability pillars?	economic, societal, and environmental	58
7329328850	environmental determinism	the environment decides life expectancy, education, income, etc.	59
7329344356	possiblism	the physical environment may limit some human actions, but we can ultimately get around that in alternate ways	60
7329362923	polder	a piece of land created by draining water from an area	61