Human Geography Glossary ~ Section 2 ~
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- Angiosperms
- Plants whose seeds are encased in fruit
- Animism
- The belief that inanimate objects, such as hills, rocks, rivers, and other elements of the natural landscape possess souls and can help as well as hinder human efforts on Earth
- Antecedent Boundary
- A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area
- Anthropogeographic boundaries
- political boundaries that coincide substantially with cultural discontinuities in the human landscape, such as religious or linguistic transitions
- Apartheid
- Literally, "apartness". (segregated)
- Aquaculture
- The use of a river segment or an artificial body of water such as a pond for the raising and harvesting of food products, including fish, shellfish, and even seaweed.
- Arable
- Literally, cultivable. Land fit for cultivation by one farming method or another.
- Area
- A term that refers to a part of the Earth's surface with less specificity than region.
- Areal Interdependence
- A term related to functional specialization. When one area produces certain goods or has certain raw materials or resources and another area has different resources/goods; they satisfy their requirements by exchanging.
- Arithmetic Population Density
- The population of a country/region expressed as an average per unit area. The figure is derived by dividing the pop. of the area by the # of sq. kilometers/miles that make up the unit
- Aryan
- From the Sanskrit Arya ("noble"), a name applied to an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European languagfe and who moved into northern India from the northwest
- Ashkenazim
- One of the two main ethnic groups within Jewish culture eventually settling in Central Europe
- Assimilation
- The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
- Australopithecus
- Early hominid species dating to 4-5 million years ago; branches survived the Pliocene climate changes in Africa