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AP Human Geo Unit 1 Flashcards

Maps and the Beginning

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What is a:

Map

A Symbolic _____

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A Symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, Usually drawn on a flat surface

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What is a:

Reference Map

(Emphasize the Location of what?)

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Emphasize the location of spatial phenomena (objects in a space), such as countries, rivers, etc.

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What is a:

Thematic Map

(geographic features/statistics about what and what?)

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A map that emphasizes the spatial pattern of geographic features/statistics about places and relationships between places

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What is a:

Physical Map

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A map that shows the features of an area, such as mountains, rivers, and lakes

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What is a:

Road Map

(Highways, local points of interest)

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A map that shows major highways, airports, cities, railroad tracks, and local points of interest

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What is a:

Political Map

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A map that shows countries, borders, or major cities

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What is a:

Climate Map

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A map that shows thge average weather of a region

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What is a:

Topographic map

(Elevation/height of an area)

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A map that includes contour lines to show the elevation/ height of an area

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What is a:

Resource Map

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A map that shows the distribution of various items

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What is an:

Economic Map

(info)

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Shows information about wealth and money

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What is:

Projection

(Earth -> Flat map)

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The scentific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to a flat map

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What is a:

Cartogram

(distort reality)

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Types of maps that distort reality to convey information. They resize and exaggerate any variable on an attribute value

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What is a:

Choropleth

(Colors to represent spatial data)

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A type of thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area

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What is:

Absolute Distance

(Total space)

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The total space between 2 things/places, usually measured in feet, yards, miles, kilometers, or even city blocks

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What is:

Relative Distance

(A measure of the social, …, and economic rela… of connectivity between … places)

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A measure of the social, cultural, and economic relatedness or connectivity between 2 places

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What is:

Elevation

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The distance above sea level

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hey

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When you get this card, take a break

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What is a:

Site

(Physical characteristics)

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The physical characteristics of a place such as climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, longitude and latitude, and elevation

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What is a:

Situation

(Relative/in relationship)

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The location of a place relative/in relationship to another place

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What is a:

GPS

(through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers)

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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 a:

GIS

(Stores, organizes, analyzes…grographic data)

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

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What is:

Satellite Navigation

(Provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning)

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A system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning

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What is:

Remote Sensing

(orbiting the planet/from other long distance methods)

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The collection of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long distance methods

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What is:

Absolute Location

(In a way that never changes)

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The position of a place in a way that never changes, no matter your location

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What is:

Relative Location

(The position of a place, landmark)

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The position of a place as compared to another landmark.

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26
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What is a:

Place

(A Specific point on what distinguised by what?)

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A specific point on earth distinguised by a particular characteristic

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What is:

Space

(The what between what?)

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The physical gap/interval between 2 objects

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28
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What are:

Flows

(Connected&Crossed, satellite images, digital data)

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All places are connected to other places and crossed by these, like migrants, money, goods, germs, satellite images, and digital data

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What is:

Distance Decay

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The diminishing importance and eventual dissappearance of a phenomenon (event) with increasing distance from its origin, so the farther away you get from a trend/phenomenon the less impact it has on you

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30
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What is:

Time-Space Compression

(The reduction in time it takes to … something to a … place as a result of … …)

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The reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communication (e.g. internet and cellphones) and transportation (e.g. air travel)

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What is a:

Pattern

(the geometric…?)

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The geometric arrangement of objects in a space

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32
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What is:

Distribution

(The arrangement of…?)

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The arrangement of features in a space

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33
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What is:

Density

(frequency with which something exists)

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The frequency (amount) with which something exists within a given unit area

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34
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What is:

Concentration

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The spread of something over a given area

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35
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What is:

Clustered concentration

(Grouping of similar objects)

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Concentration that involves the grouping of similar objects into a set

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36
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What is:

Dispersed Concentration

(distributed/spread)

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Concentration that’s distributed or spread over a wide area

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37
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What is a:

Gravity Model

(When the inter… between … places can be determined by the … of the … of both …, divided by the … of their … from one another)

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When the interaction between 2 places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another

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38
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What is a:

Renewable Resource

(More rapidly than what….?)

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Resources in nature that are produced more rapidly that is consumed by humans

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39
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What is a:

Nonrenewable Resource

(Produced in nature more slwoly)

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Resources that are produced in nature more slowly than it’s consumed by humans

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40
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What is:

Sustainability

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Restritcing the use of nonrenewable resources and limiting the use of renewable resources to the level at which the environment can continue to supply them indefinitely

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41
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What is the:

Cultural Landscape

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A combination of cultural, economic, and physical features of a place (ex, language, industry, climate)

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42
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What is:

Cultural Ecology

(A geographic approach that what…?)

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A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships

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43
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what is:

Environmental Determinism

(the study of what…)

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The study of how the physical environment caused human activities

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44
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What is:

Possibilism

(Humans have the ability to…?)

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The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but humans have the ability to adapt to their environment and overcome obstacles.

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What is a:

Scale

(Relationship between ….. of the earth and ….)

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The relationship between the portion of the earth being studied and the earth as a whole

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46
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What is the:

Scale of Analysis

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The scale geographers think about, on many levels such as global, regional, and local

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47
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What is:

Globalization?

(Increased connections between … around the … due to..?)

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Increased connections between places around the world due to increases in communication and transportation technology

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48
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What is the:

Hearth

(A place from which …. originate)

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A place from which trends, innovations, ideas, or elements of culture originate

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49
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What is:

Diffusion

(The process by which, one place to another)

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The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time

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50
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What is:

Relocation Diffusion

(Physical movement)

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Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

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51
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What is:

Hierarchical Diffusion

(Persons/Nodes of authority)

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The spread of an idea from persons/nodes of authority or power to other persons/places

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52
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What is:

Contagious Diffusion

(Rapid, widespread)

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

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53
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What is:

Stimulus Diffusion

(Underlying principle)

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The spread of an underlying principle even though a chracteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

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54
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What is:

Expansion Diffusion

(Feature/trend, in an additive process)

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The spread of a feature/trend among people from one area to another in an additive process

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55
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What is a:

Region

(Distinctive characteristic)

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An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristic

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56
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What is a:

Formal Region

(One or more distinctive characteristics)

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An area in which everyone (or majority) shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics

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57
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What is a:

Functional Region

(an area organized around a … or … point)

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An area organized around a node or focal point

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58
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What is a:

Vernacular Region

(As part of their cultural identity)

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

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