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What is Agricultural Density?

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.

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Define Site in geography

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The physical character of a place.

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What does Situation refer to in geography?

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The location of a place relative to another place.

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What is meant by Space in geographical terms?

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The physical gap or interval between two objects.

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Define Region.

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An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.

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What is a Base Line?

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An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States.

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What is Contagious Diffusion?

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

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Define Density.

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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

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What does Distribution mean in geography?

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The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface.

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What is a Map?

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A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth’s surface or a portion of it.

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Define Location.

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The position of anything on Earth’s surface.

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What is Distance Decay?

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The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

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What is a Functional Region?

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An area organized around a node or focal point.

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Define Globalization.

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Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

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What is Environmental Determinism?

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A 19th-20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in physical sciences.

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Define Culture.

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The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group’s distinct tradition.

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What is Arithmetic Density?

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The total number of people divided by the total land area.

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Define Connections in geography.

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Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

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What is Cartography?

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The science of making maps.

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Define Concentration.

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The spread of something over a given area.

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What is a Meridian?

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An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.

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Define Stimulus Diffusion.

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The spread of an underlying principal, even through a specific characteristic is rejected.

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What is a Township?

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A square normally 6 miles on a side.

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Define Transnational Corporation.

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A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters of shareholders are located.

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What is Cultural Landscape?
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
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Define Cultural Ecology.
Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
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What is Diffusion?
The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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What is a Hearth?
The region from which innovative ideas originate.
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Define Pattern in geography.
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
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What does Possibilism suggest?
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.
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What are Regional studies?
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomenon in a particular study area.
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What is a Section?
A square normally 1 mile on a side.
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Define 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.
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What is a Geographic Information System (GIS)?
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.
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Define Geographic Positioning System (GPS).
A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
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What is Greenwich Meantime (GMT)?
The time in that zone encompasses the prime meridian, or 0º longitude.
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What is Uneven Development?
The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy.
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Define Vernacular Region.
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
A law that divided much of the United States into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
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What is Physiological Density?
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
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Define Parallel in geography.
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
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What is Place in geography?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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Define Polder.
Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
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What is Relocation Diffusion?
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
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What is the Prime Meridian?
The meridian, designated as 0º longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.
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What is a Principal Meridian?
A north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States.
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Define Latitude.
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator.
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What is Longitude?
The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian.
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What is a Mental Map?
A representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place.
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What is the International Date Line?
An arc that for the most part follows 180º longitude, dividing land areas.
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Define Expansion Diffusion.
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
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What is a Resource in geography?
A substance in the environment that is useful to people.
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Define Scale in geography.
The relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
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What is Remote Sensing?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet.
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What is a Toponym?
The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.
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Define Projection in geography.
The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.
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What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
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Define Formal Region.
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics.

AP Human Geography (2 decks)

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