AP Human Geo. KBAT-1

Terms	Definitions
Cartography	The making or study of maps or charts.
Contagious diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Cultural Ecology	Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
Culture	A particular society at a particular time and place
Density	The number of individuals in a certain area
Diffusion	The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
Distance-Decay	The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.
Distribution	The process of giving/spreading things out into a community or group of people.
Environmental Determinism	A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions
Equator	An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
Expansion Diffusion	The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
Formal Region	An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Friction of Distance	A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between two places.
Functional Region	An area organized around a node of focal point.
GIS	A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. (Geographic Info. System)
GPS	A navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver
Hierarchical diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
Hearth	The region from which innovative ideas originate
International Date Line	The line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered on the 180th meridian.
Latitude	An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
Longitude	Distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole).
Mercator projection	A map projection of the earth onto a cylinder
Possibillism	The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
uneven development	the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy.
vernacular region	The sense of a place. Ex. "home"
remote sensing	The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.
Robinson Projection	Flattened globe map
scale	Size or measure according to a scale
site	the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
situation	physical position in relation to the surroundings
space-time compression	the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse(send/ship) something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems
spatial analysis	the study of geographic phenomena in terms of their arrangement as points, lines, areas, or surfaces on a map
stimulus diffusion	a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place
time zones	region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time
toponym	the name by which a geographical place is known
Prime Meridian	0 degrees longitude
projection	a planned undertaking
relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.