AP Human Geo Unit 1 Flashcards
What is a:
Map
A Symbolic _____
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?)
Emphasize the location of spatial phenomena (objects in a space), such as countries, rivers, etc.
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What is a:
Thematic Map
(A map that emphasizes the … pattern of geo.. features/sta… about places and …s between places)
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
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)
A map that shows major highways, airports, cities, railroad tracks, and local points of interest
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What is a:
Political Map
A map that shows countries, borders, or major cities
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What is a:
Climate Map
A map that shows thge average weather of a region
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What is a:
Topographic map
(Elevation/height of an area)
A map that includes contour lines to show the elevation/ height of an area
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What is a:
Resource Map
A map that shows the distribution of various items
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What is an:
Economic Map
(info)
Shows information about wealth and money
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What is:
Projection
(Earth -> Flat map)
The scentific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to a flat map
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What is a:
Cartogram
(distort reality)
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)
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)
The total space between 2 things/places, usually measured in feet, yards, miles, kilometers, or even city blocks
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Relative Distance
(A measure of the social, …, and economic rela… of connectivity between … places)
A measure of the social, cultural, and economic relatedness or connectivity between 2 places
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What is:
Elevation
The distance above sea level
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What is a:
Site
(Physical characteristics)
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)
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)
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
(A computer … that stores, …, analyzes, and … geographic …)
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
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What is:
Satellite Navigation
(Provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning)
A system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning
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What is:
Remote Sensing
(The collection of data about …’s surface from a … orbibting the … or from other long distance methods)
The collection of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long distance methods
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Absolute Location
(In a way that never changes)
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)
The position of a place as compared to another landmark.
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What is a:
Place
(A Specific point on what distinguised by what?)
A specific point on earth distinguised by a particular characteristic
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Space
(The what between what?)
The physical gap/interval between 2 objects
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What are:
Flows
(Connected&Crossed, satellite images, digital data)
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
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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Time-Space Compression
(The reduction in time it takes to … something to a … place as a result of … …)
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…?)
The geometric arrangement of objects in a space
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What is:
Distribution
(The arrangement of…?)
The arrangement of features in a space
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What is:
Density
(frequency with which something exists)
The frequency (amount) with which something exists within a given unit area
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What is:
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area
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What is:
Clustered concentration
(Grouping of similar objects)
Concentration that involves the grouping of similar objects into a set
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What is:
Dispersed Concentration
(distributed/spread)
Concentration that’s distributed or spread over a wide area
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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)
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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What is a:
Renewable Resource
(More rapidly than what….?)
Resources in nature that are produced more rapidly that is consumed by humans
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What is a:
Nonrenewable Resource
(Produced in nature more slwoly)
Resources that are produced in nature more slowly than it’s consumed by humans
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What is:
Sustainability
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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What is the:
Cultural Landscape
A combination of cultural, economic, and physical features of a place (ex, language, industry, climate)
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What is:
Cultural Ecology
(A geographic approach that what…?)
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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Environmental Determinism
(the study of what…)
The study of how the physical environment caused human activities
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What is:
Possibilism
(Humans have the ability to…?)
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 ….)
The relationship between the portion of the earth being studied and the earth as a whole
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What is the:
Scale of Analysis
The scale geographers think about, on many levels such as global, regional, and local
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What is:
Globalization?
(Increased connections between places around the … due to… increases in … and transportaion …)
Increased connections between places around the world due to increases in communication and transportation technology
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What is the:
Hearth
(A place from which …. originate)
A place from which trends, innovations, ideas, or elements of culture originate
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What is:
Diffusion
(The process by which, one place to another)
The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
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Relocation Diffusion
(Physical movement)
Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
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Hierarchical Diffusion
(The spread of an … from …/…s of authority or power to other persons/…)
The spread of an idea from persons/nodes of authority or power to other persons/places
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Contagious Diffusion
(Rapid, widespread)
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
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Stimulus Diffusion
(Underlying principle)
The spread of an underlying principle even though a chracteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
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Expansion Diffusion
(Feature/trend, in an additive process)
The spread of a feature/trend among people from one area to another in an additive process
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What is a:
Region
(Distinctive characteristic)
An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristic
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What is a:
Formal Region
(One or more distinctive characteristics)
An area in which everyone (or majority) shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
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What is a:
Functional Region
(an area organized around a … or … point)
An area organized around a node or focal point
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What is a:
Vernacular Region
(As part of their cultural identity)
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
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