AP Human Geography Chapter One Key Terms
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- hierarchical diffusion
- diffusion through a channel of susceptible adopters
- region
- used to categorize areas
- possibilism
- natural environment limits choices available to a culture
- geocaching
- coordinates placed on the internet
- landscape
- the material character of a place
- Spatial interaction
- depends on distance, accessibility and connectivity
- gis
- geographic information systems
- location theory
- seeks to answer why places are spaced the way they are
- expansion diffusion
- an idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading outward
- culture complex
- combination of cultural traits
- thematic maps
- tell stories
- sequent-ocupants
- when successive occupants become successful by what was there when they arrived
- fieldwork
- geographers go out and see what people are doing
- cultural landscape
- visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
- generalized map
- to show a phenomenon on a map ex. percipitation
- cultural barriers
- work against diffusion
- physical geography
- study of physical phenomenon on earth
- culture diffusion
- the spread of an idea from its hearth
- absolute locations
- the exact position on the earth based on latitude and longitude
- perceptions of places
- developed for places not visited through books movies and stories
- human-environment
- the relationship between humans and the physical world
- culture
- music literature and art of a society and it's way of life
- contagious diffusion
- all adjacent individuals are affected
- culture trait
- a single attribute of a culture ex. Muslim wearing a turbin
- political ecology
- environmental consequences of politics
- time-distance decay
- the delay in diffusion of a trait depends on time and distance
- spatial perspective
- viewing the study of people by where they are
- independent invention
- a trait with many hearths that developed independent of each other
- sense of place
- by people attaching place with meaning and emotion
- epidemic
- regional outbreak of disease
- relocation diffusion
- movement of individuals who have already adopted a new idea and carry it to a new location
- formal region
- defined by a physical criteria and/or cultural traits
- medical geography
- mapping the distribution of a disease
- reference maps
- show locations of places and geographic features
- spatial
- how places are layed out and arranged on the earth
- Globalization
- increasing interaction without regard to country borders
- movement
- mobility of people, goods and ideas
- remote sensing
- monitoring the earths surface from a distance
- cultural hearth
- an area where cultural traits develop ex. Islam developed from mecca
- five themes
- location, region, place, human-environment, movement
- cultural ecology
- concerned with culture adapting to environment
- functional region
- the product of interactions ex. city
- perceptual region
- impressions we have of regions and cultures
- place
- all places on the earth have unique characteristics
- pandemics
- worldwide outbreak of disease
- stimulus diffusion
- innovation of diffusion into a new culture