Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Key Terms

collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial date to be collected, recorded, stores, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user

the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale impact

satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features.

form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples

reciprocal relationship between human and environment

one of the two major divisions of geography the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities and landscapes.

the term of a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independence of each other

line on a map connecting point of equal temperature values

overall appearance of an area

geographical situation of people and things

a logical attempts to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity, and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.

the study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective

image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by and individual's perception, impression and knowledge of that space

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

an outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide

the design of a spatial distribution (scattered or concentrated)

belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures

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

one of two major divisions of sytematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals and topography

uniqueness of a location

an approach to studying nature-society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect and are the result of the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated

Geographic view point- a response to determination that holds human decision making, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development, nonetheless, possibilists view the environment as providing a set of broad constrains that limits the possibilities of human choice

maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference

an area on the earth's surface marked by degree of formal, functional, perceptual homogenity of some phenomena

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

sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as the evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones

a method of collecting data info through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area of object of study

involvement of a player sat other scales to generate support for a position or initiative

state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important event that occureed in that place

the notion that sequencive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place,each contributing to the landscape

pertaining to, involving, or having the nature of space on the earths surface

physical location of geographic phenomena across space

the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminshes the attractiveness offsite further away

form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the intro of a cultural trait from another place

Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of show attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon

the declining degree of acceptance of an ideas or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source