AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Vocab

A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reacctions vary.

The study of how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localtiy, region, and world.

A set of processes that are increasing interactions, interpendence without regard to country borders.

The spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth’s natural phenomena.

How something is laid out; space on Earth’s surface.

Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.

The design of spatial distribution.

The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective; looking at sources, diffusion routes, and distribution of disease.

A worldwide outbreak of disease.

Regional outbreak of disease.

Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space.

Location, human-environment, region, place, and movement.

The geographical situation of people and things.

A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of the economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.

Reciprocal relationship between humans and environment.

An area on the Earth’s surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.

Uniqueness of a location.

State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certian character.

Belief or “understanding” about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures.

The mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet.

Depends on the distances between places. Both Complementarity and Intervening Opportunity.

Measurement of the physical space between two places.

The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certian location from other locations.

The degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network.

Material character of a place, complex of natural featues, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place its form.

The visible imprint of human activity ona landscape.

Cultural succession and its lasting imprint.

The art and science of making maps.

Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude.

Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon.

The position of place of a certian item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, and longitude.

Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geograpic features.

A hunt for a cache, the GPS coordinates which are placed on the Internet by other geocachers.

The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.

Maps in our minds of places we have been and places we have only heard of.

The space within which daily activity occurs.

A vague map of an area without specific details.

A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study.

A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user.

A uniform region.

Defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.

A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity.

The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.

A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban.

A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.

Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.

The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other.

The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area.

The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source.

Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certian innovations; ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture.

The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger.

The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person.

An idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.

A cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.

Items being diffusion are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate new ones.

The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development.

Line on a map connecting point of equal temperature values.

Geographic viewpoint- a response to determinism- that holds that human descision making, not the environment, is the critical factor in cultural development.

An area of inquiry concened with culture as a system of adaptation to environment.

Area of inquiry fundementally concerned with the enviormental consequences of dominant political- economic arrangements and understandings.