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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 VOCAB EXAM Q&A
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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 VOCABEXAM Q&A
Absolute location - answer-the coordinates of a place using latitude and longitude
Accessibility - answer-the ability to reach a place with respect to another place
Agricultural density - answer-the number of farmers per unit of farmland
Arithmetic density - answer-the total number of objects in an area
Cartography - answer-the science of map-making
Choropleth map - answer-a thematic map using shading to show a pattern of a variable
(the darker the shading, the higher the concentration of the variable)
Concentration - answer-the extent of a feature's spread over space
Connectivity - answer-relationships among people and objects across the barrier of
space
Contagious diffusion - answer-the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic
throughout the population
Core-periphery - answer-central, wealthy, technologically advanced countries vs. Less-
developed, poor, and dependant countries
Cultural ecology - answer-the geographic study of human-environment relationships
Cultural landscape - answer-forms superimposed on the physical environment by
humans
Density - answer-the frequency with which something occurs in space
Diffusion - answer-the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one
place to another over time
Distance decay - answer-contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually
disappears
Distribution - answer-the arrangement of a feature in space
Environmental determinism - answer-the theory that the physical environment causes
social development
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