APHG Geography, Its Nature and Perspectives

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  1. Agricultural Density
    The Ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
  2. Anthropogenic
    Human-induced changes on the natural environment
  3. Arithmetic Density
    The total number of people divided by the total land area.
  4. Base Line
    An east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate surveying and numbering of townships in the United States.
  5. Cartography
    The science of making maps.
  6. Concentration
    The spread of something over a given area.
  7. Connections
    Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
  8. Contagious Diffusion
    the rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
  9. Cultural Ecology
    Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environmental relationships
  10. Cultural Landscape
    Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
  11. Culture
  12. Density
    the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.
  13. Diffusion
    The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
  14. Distance Decay
  15. Distribution
    The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.
  16. Environmental Determinism
  17. Expansion Diffusion
  18. Formal Region (or Uniform Region or Homogeneous Region)
  19. Functional Region (or Nodal Region)
    An area organized around a node or focal point.
  20. Geographic Information System (GIS)
  21. Global Positioning System (GPS)
    A system that determines a precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
  22. Globalization
    Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide scope.
  23. Gravity Model
  24. Greenwich Mean Time
    The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0� longitude.
  25. Hearth
    The region from which innovative ideas originate.
  26. Hierarchical Diffusion
  27. International Date Line
    An arc that for the most part follows 180� longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the international date line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. when you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.
  28. Intervening Opportunities
    If one place has a demand for one good or service and two places have a supply of equal price and quality, the supplier closer to the buyer will represent an intervening opportunity, thereby blocking the third from being able to share its supply of goods or services. Intervening opportunities are frequently used because transportation costs usually decrease with proximity
  29. Land Ordinance of 1785
  30. Latitude
  31. Longitude
    The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0 �).
  32. Location
    The position of anything on Earth's surface.
  33. Map
  34. Mental Map
    An internal representation of a portion of the Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located.
  35. Meridian
    An arc drawn on a map between the north and south poles.
  36. Parallel
  37. Pattern
    The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
  38. Physiological Density
  39. Place
    A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
  40. Polder
    Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
  41. Possibilism
    The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but the people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
  42. Prime Meridian
    The meridian, designated as 0� longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwhich,England
  43. Principal Meridian
    A north-south line designated in the Land of Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States
  44. Projection
    The system used to transfer locations from the Earth's surface to a flat map.
  45. Region
    An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
  46. Regional Studies
  47. Relocation Diffusion
  48. Remote Sensing
  49. Resource
  50. Scale
    Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth 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 the Earth's surface.
  51. Site
    The physical character of a place.
  52. Section
  53. Situation
    The location of a place relative to other places.
  54. Space
    The physical gap or interval between two objects.
  55. Space-Time Compression
    The reduction in the time it takes to do something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.
  56. Spatial Diffusion
    The ways in which phenomena, such as technological innovations, cultural trends, or even outbreaks of diseases, travel over space
  57. Spatial Perspective
    An intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of a specific phenomenon, how and why that phenomenon is where it is, and finally, how it is spatially related to the phenomena in other spaces
  58. Stimulus Diffusion
  59. Time-space Convergence
    The idea that distance between some places is actually shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction among those places
  60. Tobler's "First Law of Geography"
  61. Toponym
    The name given to a portion of the Earth's surface.
  62. Township
  63. Transnational Corporation
  64. Uneven Development
    The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of economy.
  65. Vernacular Region
  66. Mercator Projection
    Maintains compass direction, distorts relative size of areas of landmasses
  67. Fuller Projection
    Maintains size and shape, distorts direction
  68. Robinson Projection
    Balance and minimizes projection errors
  69. Peters Projection
    Equal area purposely centered in Africa
  70. Azimuthal Projection
    Planar, and orientated around the North or South Pole
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APHG Geography, Its Nature and Perspectives
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AP Human Geography

AP Human Geography Unit 1
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