AP Human Geography: Chapter 1 Vocabulary

A culture’s adaptation to environment

Why humans alter environment

Environmental consequences of political- economic arrangements

Big businesses cutting trees for cities space

The theory that human actions are affected by physical environment

Greece was the ideal climate

Outcome of distance on interactions of cultures

Distance from a hearth

Exact location of a place

Latitude and longitude coordinates

Using features to describe a place

Hersey is across the street from target

Shows geographic features and locations

Map of earth

Maps in your mind about places you have seen, heard about, or been to

Thinking about what it was like in Italy

Locates places on earth’s surface

Car navigation system

Adds emotional feeling to a place

Bias towards ones hometown

Arrangement of things across the earth

Map of cell towers in a state

Where things happen in the world

Map of cholera outbreaks around the world

Depends on distances, accesibility, and connectivity

The transportation of food exports from country to country

Human activity that impacts the world that is not there naturally/anything made by humans

Buildings, roads, restaurants

An outbreak of a world wide disease

Cholera pandemic in 1816

Cholera epidemic in 1990

Outbreak of disease in region

Research, interviewing, polling, etc. done in the environment of what is being researched instead of in an office or lab

An archaeologist studying the skeleton of a dinosaur, digging up dinosaur bones

Lines connecting points of equal temperature values

Places in the world with equal climates

Natural environment only limits the development of a culture

The Mayans having a successful culture in a tropical climate.

Cultural impacts in a certain place

Humans bringing technology when they move

Connections between places

People from two different places being friends

Thoughts about places people have that they havent been to

People from Illinois having bad perceptions about the West Coast

The study of how people around the world live, communicate, and organize themselves and their land

Language,Government, orders, and studying different cultures

The study of the natural geographical features and physical phenomena

Mountains, lakes, rivers

Shed aquarium is in Chicago Illinois

Cars creating pollution

Illinois is in the Midwest region of the United States

Aruba is warm; Antarctica is cold

Cars trains buses in big cities

Actions that encourage communication from people all over the world, creating relationships, and connecting people from different countries

Global financial markets, social media, and popular culture are some examples of globalization

Ideas that affect a local community/impractical for everyone

Veggie burger in India

Movement of people who adopted an idea and bring it with them to spread it

Migration

Digital accounts of the environment

Tells a story of a movement of a geographic phenomena

Map of tornadoes in the Midwest

show voters parties and the computer will tally it

Routine places we go

Dunkin’ Donuts down the street

Monitoring earth from far away

Satellites an aircraft

Have similar cultural/physical qualities

French/ spoken in france, parts of canada, and colonies in africa

Specific interaction/activities

Shared political, social, economic purpose/urban area with people moving in and out

Regions constructed to understand the nature/distribution of human geography phenomena

Perceptions of the South

Single part of a culture

Turban in a Muslim society

Combination of traits in a culture

Cattle/many uses around the world

An area where cultural traits are invented and diffused

Islam founded in 500 CE around Mecca and Medina

Rules of what is not acceptable in a culture

Prohibition of alcohol

Expansion diffusion in which nearly all people are affected near the place

Cholera

Spreads to places that are most likely to adopt it

Crocs