A.P. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY – BALLINGALL – UNIT ONE TERMS
Chapter 1
culture complex
ratio (representative fraction)
human geography
cultural hearth
word scale
globalization
independent invention
graphic scale
physical geography
diffusion
large vs. scale
spatial
time-distance decay
projections
spatial distribution
cultural barrier
Mercator projection
pattern
expansion diffusion
Robinson projection
medical geography
hierarchical diffusion
thematic maps
pandemic
contagious diffusion
epidemic
stimulus diffusion
spatial perspective
relocation diffusion
The Five Themes of Geography
environmental determinism
1. Location
- location theory
2. Human-environment
interactions
3. Region
-formal regions
-functional regions
-perceptual regions
(aka vernacular reg.)
4. Place
-sense of place
-perception of place
5. Movement
-spatial interaction
-distance
-accessibility
-connectivity
landscape
cultural landscape
sequent occupance
scale
rescale
culture
culture trait
possibilism
cultural ecology
political ecology
chloropeth
dot
graduated symbol
isolinear
cartogram
mental map
activity space
terra incognita
generalized maps
Appendix A: Maps
remote sensing
cartography
geographic information systems
(GIS)
reference maps
fieldwork
absolute location
Also: be able to locate the
continents, as well as “the
Middle East,” India, China,
Russia and Japan.
global positioning system
relative location
longitude
Prime Meridian
International Date Line
meridans
latitude
equator
parallels
map scale