AP Human Geography
Unit 1: Study Guide
**Remember this is ONLY a study guide! To be well prepared for your Unit Test you need to review
Chapter 1 reading, vocabulary, class notes, and the study guide!!
Terms: Understand the definition and significance
Activity space
Absolute location
Accessibility
Arithmetic density
Cartography
Culture
Culture trait
Culture complex
Cultural barrier
Contagious diffusion
Cultural landscape
Complementarity
Connectivity
Diffusion
Dispersion
Distance decay
Distance
Distribution
Environmental determinism
Expansion diffusion
Formal region
Functional region
Globalization
GIS
GPS
Hearth
Hierarchical diffusion
Human geography
Intervening opportunity
Isotherm
Location
Mental Map
Node
Pattern
Perceptual Region
Place
Physiological density
Possibilism
Realm
Reference Maps
Relative location
Relocation diffusion
Rescale
Scale
Sense of Place
Sequent Occupance
Site
Situation
Space
Stimulus diffusion
Thematic Maps
Transferability
Time-space compression
Utility
Major Concepts:
1. What makes a place unique?
2. How does culture diffuse across space? What can slow or stop the diffusion?
3. How is space divided into regions and realms on the earth’s surface?
4. What geographic concepts aid, hinder, or help explain spatial interaction?
5. What questions, themes, maps and concepts do geographers use to explain space?
**Good Luck STUDYING!