AP Human Geography- Chapter 1 – Key Terms
Find a definition for each term below. This will be checked for completion, they are your notes.
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Agricultural Density
Arithmetic Density
Physiological Density
Absolute Location
Relative Location
Sequent occupance
Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Environmental determinism
Possibilism
Culture
Cultural Landscape
Cultural Ecology
Hearth
Distance Decay
Globalization
Site
Situation
Scale
Space
Space-time compression
Latitude
Longitude
Meridian
Prime Meridian
Principal Meridian
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Map
Cartography
Mental map
Vernacular Region
Functional Region
Formal Region
Toponym
Civilization
Distribution
Density
Region
International Date Line
Location
Pattern
Environmental Perception
Uneven Development
Pattern
Remote Sensing
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What is the purpose of maps?
How have maps developed overtime?
How do scales impact what we see on a map?
How is the “world” distorted on maps? What are the strengths and weaknesses of
different maps?
How is property divided?
What are modern tools of geography?
How are places uniquely identified?
What is a region? How are regions classified?
What is culture?
How does physical geography impact human geography?
How has globalization impacted human geography?
How do ideas, goods, philosophies, etc. spread throughout the world?