AP HUMAN: unit one test
agricultural density
# of farmers per unit of ARABLE (farmable) land
physiological density
# of people per unit of ARABLE land
arithmetic density
# per unit
GPS, GIS, Remote Sensing
GPS assigns locations to points on earth, remote sensing is the use of sensors on planes or satellites to collect GIS (data collecting and processing technique)
Situation
What is the place near? (ex: venice, italy is near the alps mountain range)
S-Curve
a graph showing how influence of a trend is spread (innovator, majority adopters, laggers)
Density
a number high or low
Location
a particular place or position
Distance decay
a phenomenon observed between locations or populations - the further apart they are, the less likely it is that they will interact very much.
Projection
all maps lie flat, all flat maps lie (distance, direction, shape, combination)
Functional region
an area organized around a node
Formal region
an area where everyone shares a distinctive characteristic
Concentration
clustered or dispersed
Time zones
dividing the world into zones of equal time following a 24-hour day around the world (there are 12 zones)
absolute location
exact location on earth (longitude and latitude)
Expansion
expanded outwards and infusing others
Contagious
fast widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Robinson
gives you the main gist for where and size
Goode's
good for relative size and shape
Mercator
good for sea navigation, bad for shrinking equator, and expands poles
Cultural Ecology
how an environment can change the people's culture
Cultural Landscape
how the landscape is changed by the peoples cultures who use it
Possibilism
people are incharge of their culture and make things possible
Relocation
people relocate to somewhere new, bringing their culture w/ them
scale of map
ratio of distance and area on Earth to the distance and area on a map ex: 1 cm on a map = 1 km representations: proportional fraction (1/100,000) ratio (1:100,000) bar scale
Distribution
regular arrangement of a phenomenon across earth's surface
Diffusion
spread of some phenomenon
Environmental Determinism
the environment causes the people to change their culture
Pattern
the geometric or regular arrangement of something in an area
Longitude
the measurement east or west of the prime meridian
Latitude
the measurement north or south of the equator
toponym
the name given to a place on Earth
Site
the physical character of a place, stuff you see in a physical; despite human interaction
Space-time compression
the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place.
Hearth
the region where innovative ideas come from
relative location
the situation of a location
scale of analysis
what level we are talking about size/scope of place being studied local, national, regional, global think in terms of local issues vs. regional, national, or global issues
Stimulus
when people receive a culture element from someone else but gives is a new and unique form
Hierarchical
when something is expanding and it goes from the high status cities, to middle, to low
Globalization
widespread access to things all over the world (ex: fast food, you can find a mcdonald's like everywhere you go)