AP Human Geography

Question 0

Cultural Landscape

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Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

Question 1

Sequent Occupance

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Arithmetic Density

Answer 2

Total number of people divided by total land area; how many people per area of land

Question 3

Physiological Density

Answer 3

Number of people per unit area of arable land; relates to how much land is being used by how many people

Question 4

Hearth

Answer 4

The region from which innovative ideas originate; relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from area to another

Question 5

Diffusion

Answer 5

Process of spreading a feature/trend from one place to another over time

Question 6

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 8

Spread of an idea from people/nodes of authority or power

Question 9

Contagious Diffusion

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Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

Question 10

Stimulus Diffusion

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Spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

Question 11

Absolute Distance

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Exact measurement of he physical space between two places

Question 12

Relative Distance

Answer 12

Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places

Question 13

Distribution

Answer 13

Arrangement of something across Earth’s surface

Question 14

Environmental Determinism

Answer 14

Study of how the physical environment caused human activities