Ap Flashcards

14730491134	absolute location	Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates	0
14730491135	Cartography	The science of making maps	1
14730491136	clustered	Gathered closely together in a group	2
14730491137	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.	3
14730491138	GIS	A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.	4
14730491139	relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.	5
14730491140	Culture ecology	Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.	6
14730491141	Hierarchical Diffusion	the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places	7
14730491142	GPS	Global Positioning System	8
14730491143	remote sensing	The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.	9
14730491144	Gravity Model	A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.	10
14730491145	Robinson Projection	Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each.	11
14730491146	scale	the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole	12
14730491147	site	The physical character of a place	13
14730491148	Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas originate	14
14730491149	Culture	Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.	15
14730491150	situation	the location of a place relative to other places	16
14730491151	Latitude	Distance north or south of the equator	17
14730491152	Density	mass/volume	18
14730491153	Diffusion	Movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.	19
14730491154	Longitude	Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees	20
14730491155	time-space compression	A term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity.	21
14730491156	spatial analysis	the study of geographic phenomena in terms of their arrangement as points, lines, areas, or surfaces on a map	22
14730491157	Mercator Projection	a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder	23
14730491158	dispersed	scattered, spread, broken up	24
14730491159	Distance Decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	25
14730491160	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.	26
14730491161	stimulus discrimination	a differentiation between two similar stimuli when only one of them is consistently associated with the unconditioned stimulus	27
14730491162	environmental determinism	A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.	28
14730491163	distrubution	Shipping and transportation, delivery to customers.	29
14730491164	Prime Meridian	0 degrees longitude	30
14730491165	Sustainability	The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained	31
14730491166	uneven development	The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy.	32
14730491167	Toponym	The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.	33
14730491168	Peters Projection	An equal-area projection purposely centered on Africa in an attempt to treat all regions of Earth equally.	34
14730491169	Equator	0 degrees latitude	35
14730491170	Projection	The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.	36
14730491171	Regionalism	an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot	37
14730491172	Expansion Diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.	38
14730491173	relative location	The position of a place in relation to another place	39