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AP Human Geography

Terms in this set (40)

Agricultural density
The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area
Contagious diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Cultural landscape
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a central group
Culture
The body of a customary beliefs. Social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition.
Density
The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.
Diffusion
The process of up read of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
Distance decay
The diminishing importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from it's origin
Distribution
The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Environmental determinism
A nineteenth to early twentieth century approach to a study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographer could be found in physical sciences.Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
Expansion diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process
Formal region
Uniform or homogeneous region, an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Functional or nodal region
An area organized around a node focal point
Geographical Information System, GIS
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes and displays geographic data
Global Positioning System (GPS)
A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receiver
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