AP Flashcards

15014337873	region	an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features	0
15014337874	scale	the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole	1
15014337875	space	The physical gap or interval between two objects	2
15014337876	connection	Relationship among people and objects across the barrier of space	3
15014337877	map	A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.	4
15014337878	Cartography	science or art of making maps	5
15014337879	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.	6
15014337880	Projection	The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.	7
15014337881	Topynom	The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.	8
15014337882	site	The physical features of a place	9
15014337883	situation	the location of a place relative to other places	10
15014337884	cultural landscape	the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape	11
15014337885	Formal Region (Uniform Region)	An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics	12
15014337886	Functional Region (nodal region)	An area organized around a node or focal point	13
15014337887	vernacular region (perceptual region)	an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity	14
15014337888	Culture	Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.	15
15014337889	Globilization	Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.	16
15014337890	Transnational Corporation	A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.	17
15014337891	Distribution	The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.	18
15014337892	Assimilation	When cultures change their ways to match other cultures	19
15014337893	Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas originate	20
15014337894	Aculturation	when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture	21
15014337895	Diffusion	The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time	22
15014337896	relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.	23
15014337897	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.	24
15014337898	Heirarchical Diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places	25
15014337899	Stimulus Diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.	26
15014337900	Distance Decay	the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction	27
15014337901	space-time compression	The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems	28
15014337902	resource	something useful to people	29
15014337903	Sustainability	The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained	30
15014337904	environmental determinism	A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.	31
15014337905	Possiblism	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.	32