Ap Human Geography

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Sequent occupance

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The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the overall cultural landscape. It symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings.

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Cultural landscape

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Essentially, how humans interact with nature

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Arithmetic density

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How many people per area of land

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Physiological density

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How many people per area of land suitable for agriculture

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Relates to how much land is being used by how many people

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Hearth

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The region from which innovative ideas originates

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Relates to the concept of spreading ideas from one area to another

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Diffusion

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The process of spreading ideas from one area to another over time

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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from one place to another

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Expansion diffusion

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The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process

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Ex.) Hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The spread of an idea from people to other people or a place

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Ex.) Hip-hop music

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Contagious diffusion

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

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Ex.) Ideas placed on the internet

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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though characteristics may fail to spread

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Ex.) Android vs. Apple

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Absolute distance

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Exact measurement of the physical space between two places

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Relative distance

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Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places

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Distribution

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The arrangement of something across Earth's surface

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Environmental determinism

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A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographer could be found in the physical sciences; therefore, geography was considered the study of how the physical environment affected human activities

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Absolute location

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Position on Earth's surface using the coordinate system of longitude and latitude

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Longitude

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Runs from North to South pole

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Latitude

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Runs parallel to the equator

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Relative location

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Position on Earth's surface relative to other features

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Site

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What is physically found at a location and why is it significant

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Situation

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The location of a place relative to other places

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Space time compression

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The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place due to improved technology

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Friction of distance

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Quantity of spatial interactions will decline with distance

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Distance decay

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Inverse of friction of distance due to improved technology

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Networks

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Defined by Manuel Castells as a set of interconnected nodes without a center

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Connectivity

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The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Geographers are concerned with the means by which connections occur

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Accessibility

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The degree of ease with which it is possible to travel from one place to another

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It can be measured

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Space

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Refers to the physical gap between two objects

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Spatial distribution

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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space

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Spatial

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Having the characteristics of an area/space

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Size

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Estimation or determination of scope

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Scale

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The ratio of map distance to ground distance

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Formal region

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Homogeneous region where everyone shares one or more distinctive feature

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Ex.) The shared feature could be a common language, environmental climate, etc.

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Functional region

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A region tied to a node by transportation, communication system, economical and/or functional associations

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Node

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Focal point

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Vernacular region

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A region without clearly set political boundaries

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Ex.) Midwest

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Possibilism

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When the physical environment my limit some human interactions, but people can adjust to their environment

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Natural landscape

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Natural landscape

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Pattern

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The shape of a distribution

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Place name

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The name given to a place on Earth

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[Image]

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Brahmaputra river

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[Image]

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Tigris river

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[Image]

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Euphrates river

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[Image]

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Yangtze river

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[Image]

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Indus river

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[Image]

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Mekong river

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[Image]

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Ganges river

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[Image]

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Lake Baikal

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[Image]

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Nile river

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[Image]

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Lake Victoria

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[Image]

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Congo river

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[Image]

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Volga river

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[Image]

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Rhine river

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[Image]

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Amazon river

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[Image]

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Lake Winnipeg

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[Image]

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Mississippi River

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[Image]

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Rio Grande river

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[Image]

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St. Lawrence River

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[Image]

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Lake Superior

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The lake of top

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[Image]

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Lake Michigan

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Left lake

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[Image]

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Lake Huron

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A dog is barking because it is hurtin'

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[Image]

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Lake Eerie

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Be weerie of the snake-shaped lake

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[Image]

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Lake Ontario