AP HUG Unit 1 Flashcards
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| 7250256171 | Absolute Location | The position of a place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0 to 90 degrees north or south of the equator, and longitude 0 to 180 degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian passing through Greenwich, England | 0 | |
| 7250265492 | Cartography | The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns | 1 | |
| 7250273193 | Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. Clustered vs Dispersed | 2 | |
| 7250277199 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend through out a population | 3 | |
| 7250279528 | Cultural Landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group | 4 | |
| 7250289748 | Choropleth maps | a thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are depicted with shading patterns or colors for predefined zones | 5 | |
| 7250295797 | Connection | Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 6 | |
| 7250295798 | Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a groups distinct tradition | 7 | |
| 7250297670 | Density | The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area | 8 | |
| 7250298593 | Diffusion | The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time | 9 | |
| 7250299547 | Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 10 | |
| 7250299548 | Distribution | The arrangement of something across Earth's surface | 11 | |
| 7250300512 | Dot Map | A thematic map in which a dot represents some frequency of the mapped variable | 12 | |
| 7250301213 | Equal Area Projection (Goode) | A map projection that shows the size of regions in correct relation to one another but distorts shapes | 13 | |
| 7250302651 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination. | 14 | |
| 7250303762 | Five Themes of Geography | (H.L.M.P.R) location, place, human environment interaction, movement, & regions | 15 | |
| 7250304533 | Formal Region | (or uniform or homogeneous region) An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics | 16 | |
| 7250304534 | Functional Region | A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. (Activities focused around a node and spread out from this node) | 17 | |
| 7250305644 | Geography | The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity including distribution of populations, resources, land use, and industries | 18 | |
| 7250306628 | Geospatial Data | Information about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values in a geographic coordinate system | 19 | |
| 7250306629 | GIS | Super-accurate maps with different layers Used to study relationships between data sets | 20 | |
| 7250307311 | Globalization | the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The process of globalization transcends state boundaries and has outcomes that vary across places and states. | 21 | |
| 7250309111 | GPS | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geograpic features. | 22 | |
| 7250309112 | Graduated Symbol Map | A map that shows amount, location and allows for easy comparison with its downsides lying in the fact that overlapping symbols can at times become confusing and the choice of symbol sometimes proving controversial | 23 | |
| 7250309880 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate | 24 | |
| 7250311230 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places (Subset of Expansion Diffusion) | 25 | |
| 7250312217 | Human Environment interaction | The second theme of geography as defined by the GENIP; reciprocal relationship between humans and environment. | 26 | |
| 7250312218 | Human Geography | One of the two major divisions of Geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | 27 | |
| 7250314434 | International date and time zone | An imaginary line on the Earth's surface defining the boundary between one day and the next. The IDL is located halfway across the world (roughly) at 180 degrees east (or west) of the prime meridian | 28 | |
| 7252379639 | Isoline Map | a thematic map with lines that connect points of equal value |  | 29 |
| 7252384042 | Latitude | the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel. (Lines that go side to side) | 30 | |
| 7252384043 | Location | The position of anything on the Earth's Surface | 31 | |
| 7252384855 | Longitude | the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe & measuring distance east & west of the prime meridian. (These lines go up and down) | 32 | |
| 7252384856 | Map | A two dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it | 33 | |
| 7252385635 | 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. | 34 | |
| 7252386894 | Mercator Projection | Straight meridians and parallels that intersect at right angles. |  | 35 |
| 7252386895 | Map Projection | the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map | 36 | |
| 7252388980 | Meridian (Include the Prime Meridian) | An arc drawn between the North & South poles | 37 | |
| 7252388981 | Network | A chain of communication that connects people | 38 | |
| 7252388982 | Parallel | a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator & at right angles to the meridians | 39 | |
| 7252389885 | Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area. | 40 | |
| 7252390662 | Perceptual/ Vernacular Region | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. | 41 | |
| 7252390663 | Peters Projection | A rectangular map projection that maps all areas such that they have the correct sizes relative to each other | 42 | |
| 7252392419 | Physical Geography | A branch of geography dealing with natural features | 43 | |
| 7252392420 | Polar Projection | A map used to show the earths poles |  | 44 |
| 7252393395 | Projection | The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. | 45 | |
| 7252395159 | Reference Map (Physical, political, etc) | A map type that shoes reference information for a particular place, making it useful for finding landmarks and for navigating | 46 | |
| 7252395160 | Region | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. | 47 | |
| 7252398282 | Regionalization/Regionalism | An organization of earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed different from other areas | 48 | |
| 7252399602 | Relative Location | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. Distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect _____ _______ | 49 | |
| 7252401439 | Relocation/Migration Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | 50 | |
| 7252401440 | Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods. | 51 | |
| 7252402380 | Robinson Projection | useful for displaying information across the oceans. land areas, however, appear much smaller than on uninterrupted maps |  | 52 |
| 7252402381 | Scale | Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. | 53 | |
| 7252403860 | Sequent Occupance | The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. This is an important concept in geography because it symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings. | 54 | |
| 7252403861 | Site | The physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant | 55 | |
| 7252406104 | Situation | The location of a place relative to other places. | 56 | |
| 7252406105 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects. | 57 | |
| 7252406123 | Spatial Perspective | Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space. | 58 | |
| 7252407622 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected | 59 | |
| 7252409219 | Sustainable (unsustainable) ecosystem | a biological environment and series of habitats that is able to thrive and support itself without outside influence or assistance. In ideal sustainable ecosystems, everything is already provided within the ecosystem for life to survive. | 60 | |
| 7252409220 | Sustainability | the use of Earth's RENEWABLE & NONRENEWABLE natural resources in ways that ensure resource AVAILABLE in the future | 61 | |
| 7252410716 | Time Space Compression (Time space convergence) | term used by geographers to indicate the apparent compression of geographic space by faster means of transport and communication | 62 | |
| 7252411385 | Thematic Map | A map designed to convey information about a single topic or theme, such as population density or geology | 63 | |
| 7252411386 | Topographic Map | a map showing the relief features (elevation) of an area, usually by means of contour lines. | 64 | |
| 7252411387 | Toponyms | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | 65 | |
| 7252413221 | Township Range System | land is divided into six-mile square blocks (township), which is then divided into one- mile square blocks (range), which are also further divided | 66 |