AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape.

The fashioning of natural landscape by a culture group to fit their needs.

Total number of people divided by total area of land.

<p>People per unit of area of arable land.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Region from which innovative ideas originate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spread of a feature from one place to another over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Spread of a feature in a snowballing process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spread from a person of authority to other persons and places.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Exact measurements between two places.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approximate measurement between two places.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arrangement of things across Earth's surface.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Geography is the study of how the physical environment caused by human activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Underlying principle of a characteristic spreads although characteristic failed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Position marked using longitude and latitude.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Position relative to other features.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Character of a place; what is found at the location and why it is significant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Location relative to other places.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduction of time to diffuse something because of improvements in technology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Distance requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy so interactions tend to take place more often over shorter distances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Interconnected nodes without a center.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relationships across the barrier of space.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Degree of ease to reach a certain location from other locations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physical gap between two objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Location of phenomenon across space.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Estimation of extent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Representation of real phenomena at a level of reduction or generalization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Every one shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics like language or climate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Area organized around a node or focal point that dominates at the central focus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People believe it exists as a part of their cultural identity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust to new environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural geographical feature created by nature over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A common property of distribution; geometric arrangements of objects in space.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Toponym; name given to a place on Earth.</p> Signup and view all the answers