AP human geo chapter 1 Flashcards
(45 cards)
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
Cultural Landscape
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group (putting our imprint/values on the landscape)
Formal Region
An area in which everyone shares one or more common characteristics
Functional Region
An area organized/centered around an activity that is organized around a node or focal point.
Cartography
Science of Map Making
Enviromental Determisnism
Belief that people are shaped by their physical enviorment because the can sen limit on human actions
Possiblism
Belief that the physical environment can set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physicial enviroment
Distance decay
Eventual disseaperacne of soemthing further away from the orgin
Conatgious diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Hearth
Region from which innovative idea originate
GPS
system that determines teh precise postion of something on Earth
Hierchal diffusion
spread of a feature from someone or someplace of authority or power
Globalization
Actions or process that involve the entire world
GIS
computer system that store, organizes, and displays geographic data
Map distortion
A change in the shape, area, distance or direction when it is shown on a map.
Five themes of geography
Movement, location, Human environment interaction, place, region
Absolute Location
The exact postion of a place on earths surface
Relative location
The postion of a place in relation to another place
Relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend throguh bodily movement from one place to another
Physical and Human Geography
Two main branches of geography(both study where and why)
Site
Identifys a place by its unique
Siuation
Identifies a place by its location relative to other places.
Latitude lines
A set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator and measure distance north and south of the equator
Longitude lines
A set of imaginary lines that go around the earth over the poles is known as meridians and measure the distance east and west of the prime meridian.
