Ap Human Geography Vocab Terms

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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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Ratio land farmers

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Arithmetic Density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area

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Kinda like average with land and people

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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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Ordinance, surveying

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Cartography

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The science of making maps

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Concentration

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The spread of something over a given area

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Connections

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Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Relations, things, space

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Contagious Diffusion

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The rapid, wide spread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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Rapid population trend

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Cultural Ecology

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Geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relations

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Geographic human relations

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Culture

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Body of customary beliefs, social forms, and martial traits that together constitute a groups distinct tradition

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Density

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

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Frequency, given area, existence

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Diffusion

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Process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Trend, place to place, time, spread

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Distance decay

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The diminishing in importance, an eventual, disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origins

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Diminishing-dissolving importance, increasing distance, origins, phenomenon

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Distribution

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The arrangement of something across earths surface

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Arrangement, earths surface

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Environmental determinism

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A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences geography was there for the study of how the physical environment caused human activities

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Physical environment & human activity, 19th and 20th century, geography, physical sciences

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Expansion diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process

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Place to place, snowballing, trend

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Formal region or uniform region

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An area in which everyone shares and one or more distinct characteristic

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Group, similar characteristic

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Functional region

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An area organized around a note or focal point

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Center point, region/area

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Geographic information system G I S

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A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data

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Computer gathered data

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Global positioning system GPS

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A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through a series of satellites, trafficking stations, and receivers

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Guide, location/position, earths surface

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Globalization

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Actions are processes that involve the entire world and results and making something worldwide in scope

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Processes ,entire world ,world wide, scope/scale

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Greenwich meantime GMT

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The time in that zone encompassing the primer meridian or 0° longitude

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Time zone, prime meridian, engulfing

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Hearth

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The region from which innovative ideas originate

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Area, originate, innovative ideas

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or note of authority or power to the other persons or places

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Trend, person of power or authority, place to place

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International date line

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And art that for the most part of follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. Where you cross the international dateline heading east, Towards America, the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west, toward Asia, the calendar moves ahead one day.

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180 degrees, east- set back 24h-, west- go forward 24h, deviations

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Land ordinance of 1785

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A law that divided much of the United States into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers

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Law, townships, US, Sale-settlers

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Latitude

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator, 0°. [Measures distance east to west but runs north to south]

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M[e-w] & R[n-s]

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Location

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The position of anything on Earth's surface

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Longitude

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The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east to west of the prime meridian, 0°. [Measures distance from the equator, across, and measuring north to south but runs east to west]

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M[s-n] & R[e-w]

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Map

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A two dimensional or flat representation of earths surface or a portion of it

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Mental map

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A representation of a portion of earths surface based on what an individual knows that a place containing personal impressions of what is in a place where places are located

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Meridian

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An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles

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Parallel

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A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the Meridians

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Pattern

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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area

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Arrangement, study area, geometric

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Physiological density

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The number of people per-unit area of Arable land which is when suitable for agriculture

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AV people, unit, arable land

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Place

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A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character

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Labeled, point, distinctive character

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Polder

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Land created by the Dutch by draining water from and area

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Manmade land, draining water, Dutch

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Possibilism

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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 for many alternatives

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Theory, environmental limitations, adaption, alternatives.

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Prime Meridian

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The Meridian, designated as 0° longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England

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0°, Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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Principal meridian

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A north-south line designated in the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the serving and numbering of townships in the United States

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Think of baseline but instead of East West line it is a north south line

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Projection

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The system used to transfer locations from Earth surface to a flat map

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Earths surface to 2D surface

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Region

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An area distinguished by unique combination of trends or features

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Trends, area, distinguished, combination

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Cultural landscape

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And approach to geography the emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena a particular study area

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Approach, concentrates on relations in social and physical phenomena

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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

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Place to place, trend, immigration or emigration

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Remote-sensing

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The acquisition of data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods

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Data, earth surface, satellite, methods

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Resource

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A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially excepted bowl to use

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Useful to people, socially excepted, economically and technologically easy to access

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Scale

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Generally the relationship between the portion of earths being studied and earth as a whole: specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth surface

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Relation to size on earth and size on map

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Section

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A square normally 1 mile on a side Glenn ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections

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Unit usually one square mile

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Site

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The physical character of a place

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Situation

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The location of the place relative to another place

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Space

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The physical gap or interval between two objects

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The physical gap or interval between two objects

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Space-time compression

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The reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems

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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

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Trend of underlying principle despite rejection of a specific characteristic

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Toponym

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The name given to a portion of earths surface

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Name

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Township

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A square normally 6 miles on the side. The land ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships

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Frequently found in North America -6mi

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Transnational Corporation

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A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where it's home quarters or shareholders are located

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Uneven development

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The increasing gap and economic conditions between core and Peripheral for all regions as a result of the globalization of the economy

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Economic gap. Economic globalization

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Perpetual region

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An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity

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Cultural identity