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5581650-57150AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHYChapter Outline and DefinitionsChapter Outlines: Use a minimum of 1 page per key issue (section) as you work to outline the chapter. Therefore, your chapter outlines should be a minimum of 4 pages. Chapter 1 – IntroductionKey Issue 1: How Do Geographers Describe Where Things Are?Key Issue 2: Why is each point on earth unique?Key Issue 3: Why are different places similar?Key Issue 4: Why are Some Human Actions Not Sustainable?Vocabulary: Define the following 56 words in your notebook (please number them from 1-56)Key Issue 1-2Human geography, physical geography, cartography, map scale, projection, meridian, longitude, prime meridian, parallel, latitude, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), International Date Line, Geographic Information Science (GIScience), remote sensing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS), place, toponym, site, situation, region, cultural landscape, regional studies, formal (uniform) region, functional (nodal) region, vernacular (perceptual) region, mental map, culture Key Issue 3-4Scale, globalization, housing bubble, transnational corporation, space, density, pattern, cultural identity, connection, hearth, diffusion, expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion, distance decay, space-time compression, network, uneven development, renewable resource, nonrenewable resource, sustainability, conservation, preservation, biotic, abiotic, 4 Spheres of Earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere), ecosystem, ecology, erosion, cultural ecology, environmental determinism, possibilismIF NOT IN TEXTBOOK: SEARCH ONLINE. ***Using the DED Process is optional. Suggestion…if you are unfamiliar with the term, or if you feel the concept is difficult for you to grasp, you may want to consider using the DED process for that particular term!Take ownership of your learning! (: ................
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