AP Human Geography
Chapter 1
Key Terms
Use Chapter 1 of your “An Introduction to Human Geography” textbook to define the
following terms
Identifications: Using notecards, create a working definition for each of these terms. Place the term
on one side of the card and definition on the back. In your definition, please
include the following…
a. What they are?
b. Why they are important?
1. Agricultural density p.33
2. Arithmetic density p.33
3. Base line p.10
4. Cartography p.6
5. Clustered p.33
6. Concentration p.33
7. Connections p.5
8. Contagious diffusion p.38
9. Coordinate system p.17
10. Cultural ecology p.25
11. Cultural landscape p.20
12. Culture p.23
13. Density p.33
14. Diffusion p.37
15. Dispersed p.33
16. Distance decay p.37
17. Distribution p.33
18. Environmental determinism p.25
19. Equator p.18
20. Expansion diffusion p.37
21. Formal region p.21
22. Function region p.21
23. Geographical Information System
(GIS) p.12
24. Globalization p.30
25. Globalizing forces p.30-32
26. Global Positioning System
(GPS) p. 14
27. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) p.19
28. Hearth p.37
29. Hierarchical diffusion p.37
30. International Date Line p.20
31. Large-scale p.9
32. Latitude p.17
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33. Longitude p.17
34. Map p.5
35. Mental map p.22
36. Meridians p.17
37. Parallels p.17
38. Pattern p.34
39. Physiological density p.33
40. Place p.5
41. Polder p.28
42. Possibilism p.26
43. Prime meridian p.17
44. Principal meridian p.10
45. Projection p.9
46. Region p.5
47. Regional studies p.20
48. Relocation diffusion p.37
49. Remote sensing p.12
50. Resource p.25
51. Scale p.5
52. Sections p.11
53. Site p.16
54. Situation p.16
55. Small-scale p.9
56. Space p.5
57. Space-time compression p.35
58. Spatial interaction p.35
59. Stimulus diffusion p.39
60. Tobler’s First Law of Geography
61. Toponyms p.14
62. Township p.10
63. Transnational corporations p.31
64. Uneven development p.39
65. Vernacular Region p.22
If you are unable to locate a term in the text you should use an alternate resource to define
that term. Only use an alternate source if you can’t find it in your text, no terms should be
defined with an alternate source if they are located in the text.