AP Human Geography A Sense of Place 1.3 Flashcards

Toponym

A physical characteristic of a place

<p>The climate, water sources, topographical soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The location of a place relative to other places</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An unfamiliar place</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It's down past the courthouse, on L.Street, after the third traffic light, beside the yellow-brick bank.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A region derives its unified character through cultural landscape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural features, economic features, physical features</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A region that shares cultural features like language or economic activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area organized around a focal point</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The South, as referred to by Americans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scale of the world is shrinking, improving interaction possibilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The arrangement of a feature in space</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Density, concentration, and pattern</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The frequency with which something occurs in space</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By people, houses, cars, trees, or anything else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of a feature and the size of the land area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The extent of a feature's spread over space</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The geometric arrangement of objects in space</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examines how the powerful in a society dominate or seek to control</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another over time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A place from which an innovation originates</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The speed of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The farther away someone is from another, the less likely the two are to interact</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A chain of communication that connects places</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature</p> Signup and view all the answers