AP HUG Ch. 1 Flashcards

9871293902	Cartogram	Maps that inflate or deflate areas according to the quantity of some feature	0
9871293903	Cartography	Science of map making	1
9871293904	Choropleth map	A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area.	2
9871293905	Complementarity	The actual or potential relationship between 2 places, usually referring to economic interactions. The degree to which one place can supply something that another place demands.	3
9871293906	Contagious diffusion	The spread of a disease, an innovation, or cultural traits through direct contact with another person or another place.	4
9871293907	Cultural ecology	A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.	5
9871293908	Cultural landscape	The human-modified natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society.	6
9871293909	Density	The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.	7
9871293910	Distance decay	Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears.	8
9871293911	Distribution	The arrangement of a feature across the Earth's surface	9
9871293912	Environmental determinism	19th century idea that physical environment causes human activities.	10
9871293913	Formal region	An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.	11
9871293938	Functional region	the product of interactions, of movement of various kinds	12
9871293914	Geographic Information Systems (GIS)	A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data	13
9871293915	Global Positioning System (GPS)	The system that determines the precise position of something on Earth	14
9871293916	Globalization	Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope	15
9871293917	Graduated symbol map (proportional, circle or dot map)	The size of the symbol is proportional to the value of the attribute it symbolizes.	16
9871293918	Hearth	The region from which an innovative idea originates	17
9871293919	Hierarchical diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places	18
9871293920	Isoline	A map line that connects points of equal or very similar values	19
9871293921	Map projections	A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map	20
9871293922	Perceptual region/vernacular region	An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity	21
9871293923	Possibilism	The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives	22
9871293924	Region	An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features	23
9871293925	Relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another	24
9871293926	Remote sensing	The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods.	25
9871293927	Scale	The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole	26
9871293928	Site	The physical character of a place Site characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude and elevation.	27
9871293929	Situation	The location of a place relative to other places	28
9871293930	Space	The physical gap or interval between two objects	29
9871293931	Spatial diffusion	the ways in which phenomena, such as technological innovations, cultural trends, or even outbreaks of disease, travel over space	30
9871293932	Spatial organization/spatial association	The arrangement of different levels of objects (physical and human) on the Earth's surface	31
9871293933	Stimulus diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected	32
9871293934	sustainability	The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future	33
9871293935	Time-space convergence	The idea that distance between some places is actually shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction among those places	34
9871293936	Toponym	The name given to a portion of the Earth's surface	35
9871293937	Vernacular (perceptual) regions	An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity	36