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AP Human Geography Chapter 1Vocabulary
Fieldwork - answer the study of geographic phenomena by visiting and observing how
people interact with and thereby change those places.
Human Geography - answer One of the two major divisions of Geography; the spatial
analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
Globalization - answer the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to
the point that they become global in scale and impact. The process of _______
transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and states.
Physical Geography - answerOne of the two major divisions of systematic geography;
the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth's natural
phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography.
Spatial - answerpertaining to space on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as a
synonym for geographic.
Spatial Distribution - answerphysical location of geographic phenomena across space.
Pattern - answerthe design of spatial distribution.
Medical Geography - answerthe study of health and disease within a geographic
context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, _______ _______
looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.
Pandemic - answerAn outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide.
Epidemic - answerRegional outbreak of a disease.
Spatial Perspective - answerObserving variations in geographic phenomena across
space.
Five Themes - answerDeveloped by the Geographic Educational National Implemention
Project (GENIP), the _____ ______ of geography are location, human-environment,
region, place, and movement.
Location - answerThe first theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; the
geographical situation of people and things.
, Location Theory - answerA logical attempt to explain the ______ional pattern of the
economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. The
agricultural _____ _______ contained in the von Thünen model is a leading example.
Human-Environment - answerThe second theme of geography as defined by the
GENIP; reciprocal relationship between humans and environment.
Region - answerThe third theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; an area on the
Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of
some phenomenon.
Place - answerThe fourth theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; uniqueness of
a location.
Sense of Place - answerState of mind derived through the infusion of a place with
meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or
by labeling a place with a certian character.
Perception of Place - answerBelief or "understanding" about a place developed through
books, movies, stories or pictures.
Movement - answerThe fifth theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; the mobility
of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet.
Spatial Interaction - answerBoth Complementarity ( A condition that exists when two
regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/ or finished products, can
specifically satisfy each other's demands) and Intervening Opportunity (The presence of
a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away).
Distance - answerMeasurement of the physical space between two places.
Accessibility - answerThe degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certian
location from other locations. ________ varies from place to place and can be
measured.
Connectivity - answerThe degree of direct linkage between one particular location and
other locations in a transport network.
Landscape - answerThe overall appearance of an area. Most _______ are comprised of
a combination of natural and human-induced influences.
Cultural Landscape - answerThe visible imprint of human activity and ______ on the
________. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequnetially imprinted on the
______ by the activities of various human occupants.
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