AP Review Chapter 1
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*Some of the blanks for the vocab words are used in the back of the text book
Human geography focuses on how _____ make _____, how people act with______ _______in
_____ and across _____, and how we make ______ of others and ourselves in our _____,
regions, and the world. Understanding and explain ______ is the mission of ______ ______
Globalization Is a set of ______ that are increasing ______, deepening ______, and heightening
______without regard to country ______. It is also a set of _____ that are felt from these
______ processes. What happens at a _____ scale affects the _____but it also affects the _____,
_____ and _____, and similarly the processes at these scales _____ the ____ .
A human phenomenon includes ____, religion, and _____.
Physical phenomena include _____,______, and environmental changes
Human geography is the study of _____ _____ on earth
Physical geography is the study of _____ phenomena on Earth.
Both human geography and physical geographers use _____
Mapping the_____ ______ of a phenomena is usually the ____ step in understanding it
Pandemics – A _______ outbreak of dieses. Example; Cholera was an ancient dieses in India
until the beginning of the 19th century when it spread to China, Japan, East Africa and
Mediterranean
Epidemic- A _______ regional outbreak of dieses. Example; Europe had its first reappearance of
cholera in Naples.
Spatial perspective can _____ from political elections and urban shantytowns to gay
neighborhoods and folk music
Observing variations in ______ phenomena across ______ is known as ______ perspective
_____ ______ are derived from the spatial perspective of geography
The first theme, _______, highlights how the geographical _______ of people and ______ on
the earth’s surface _______ what happens and why
Predicting where things are likely to occur fostered an interest in ______ ______
This helps geographers predict the ______ location for a specific thing
The second of the 5 themes is ______ ________ interactions. This is the reciprocal _________
between _______ and ________.
Phenomena are not evenly _______ on the earth’s surface. Instead, features to be _________ in
________areas, which we call regions.
All places on the surface of the earth have ______ characteristics
With place, Sense of place is created by infusing a place with meaning and emotion , by
________important events that occurred or by _______ a place with a certain character.
_______ ___ ______ also develop through place. This is the ______ or understanding about a
place _______ through books, movies, or stories.
The fifth theme, movement, refers to the _______ of people, _______, and ideas across the
surface of the planet. Movement is an expression of the ___________ of places.
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Spatial interaction between paces depends on the ______ among places, the accessibility
(ease of reaching places), and the transportation and communication ________ (the degree of
______ between locations in a network) among places.
Geographers use the term ________ to refer to the material character of a place, the complex
of _______ features, human structures, and other ______ objects that give a place a particular
form
Cultural landscape, the visible _______ of human activity on the __________. We can see the
cultural landscape in ______ of buildings, roads, memorials, churches etc. Any cultural
landscape has layers of imprints form ______ of ________ _________.
Sequent occupance refers to these sequential imprints of ______, whose impacts are _______
one on top of the other
___________ is the art and science of making maps. While ________ ______ show locations of
places and geographic phenomena. __________ _______ tell stories, typically showing the
degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomena
Global positioning system (GPS) allows us to ______ things on the surface of the earth with
_________ accuracy
Geocaching uses their GPS units to play a ________ ________ game all over the world
We carry maps in our ______ of places we have been we merely ______ of; these are called
_______ ______. Our mental maps of the places within our _______ _______, those places we
travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity, are _______ accurate and _______ then
places we’ve never been
________ ______ help us see general trends, but we cannot see all cases of a given phenomena
Remote sensing is using technology that is a _______ away from the _____ being studied. It is
collected by _______ and _______ (airplanes, balloons). Usually used after a ______ weather
event. Remote sensed data show us ______ areas of ______.
Use _______ ________ ________ (GIS) to compare variety of ______ data by creating digitized
representation of the environment, combining _______ of ______ data, and creating maps in
which ______ and _______ are superimposed. Geographers also use GIS to ______ data, which
can give us ____ insight into geographic ______ and relationships
Scales have two meanings in geography: the first is the ________ on a map ________ to the
distance in the ______, and the second is the ________ extent of something. We see different
______ in different scales
Region constitutes an area that share ______ characteristics. Criteria we use to define a region
can be ______, _______, ________, or ________.
A formal region has a ______ trait – it can be a shared ______ trait or a ______ trait. It is
homogenous
A functional region is defined by a particular set of ______ or _______ that occur within it. A
functional region is a _______ system; its _______ are defined by the _______ of that system
________ ________ are intellectual constructs designed to _____ us understand the nature and
________ of phenomena in human geography
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At the hearth of human geography lies the concept of _______. It is the sum total _______,
attitudes, and habitual ______ patterns sheared and _________ by members of a society
Cultural geographers identify a single attribute of a culture as a _________ _______. Example;
the wearing of a turban can be a ______ _______ of certain Muslim societies.
Culture traits are not necessarily confined to a ________ culture. More than one _______ may
exhibit a particular cultural trait, but each will consist of a _______ combination of ______. This
is referred to as _______ ______. Example; in many cultures, the herding of cattle is a ______.
However, cattle are regarded to and used in ________ ways by _______ cultures.
Cultural hearth is a _____ where cultural traits _____ and form which the cultural traits _____.
The process of dissemination, the spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth to other
places is known as ________ _______. Whether diffusion of a cultural trait occurs depends, in
part, on ______ and _______ from the ______.
The ______ of an innovation becomes ____ likely the longer it takes to reach its potential
_____. Time and distance cause _____ _______ ______. _______ _______ can also work
against diffusion. Certain innovations, _____, or practices are not acceptable or ______ in
particular cultures
In the case of expansion diffusion, an innovation or ____ develops in a _____ and remains
strong there while also spreading _______
The spread of Islam is an example of ________ ______, a form of expansion diffusion in which
nearly all ______ individuals and _____ are affected. A dieses can spread in this way
*I hope the pictures below help you remember some of the vocab words!
- Sequent occupance
-Hearth
I like to think it of it
as your heart is the
organ that without it
you couldn’t survive,
same thing with hearth,
without the hearth the idea
couldn’t have spread
Stimulus diffusion
-Cultural landscape
-Relocation Diffusion
As people move and go to
new places, so do their ideas
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Expansion
Diffusion
Environmental determinism
thinks that the environment
“controls” us
Functional region- how connected
a place is, going to work can be a
a big factor of this
Possibilism
Thinks we
control our
environment
Formal region
Connected by a major
trait, English and being
American in this case
GIS
Theamtic map
Perceptual region
Exsist in our minds
Remote sensed
Image
GPS