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AP Human Geography

Chapter 1 : Thinking Geographically

Reading Notes and Vocabulary

Vocabulary:

|Agricultural Density |Environmental Determinism |Relocation Diffusion |

|Arithmetic Density |Expansion Diffusion |Site |

|Cartography |Formal Region |Situation |

|Contagious Diffusion |Functional Region |Space-Time Compression |

|Cultural Ecology |Hierarchical Diffusion |Stimulus Diffusion |

|Cultural Landscape |Land Ordinance of 1785 |Toponym |

|Distance Decay |Possibilism |Vernacular (Perceptual) Region |

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Reading Questions:

1. Explain the contribution of the following geographers: Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy.

2. Explain why 2 dimensional maps of the world are never accurate.

3. What was the impact of the Land Ordinance of 1785 on the location of place in the Midwest United States today?

4. How can GIS be used to interpret information?

5. What is the difference between Site and Situation?

6. What has a bigger impact on climate? Latitude or Longitude? Why?

7. What is culture?

8. Give 1 example to support Environmental Determinism.

9. Give 1 example to support Possibilism.

10. What did Vladimir Koppen do and why was it significant?

11. Give and explain 1 example of adapting to or modifying their environment.

12. Is globalization good or bad? Why?

13. What are the three main properties of distribution?

14. What are the 3 main factors against diffusion?

Thought Question

1. Imagine that an ITD (Instant Transportation Device) was invented that would enable all humans to travel instantaneously to any location on Earth’s surface. How would this change the distribution of people across the Earth?

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