AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Unit I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Note: The following concepts transcend all units in AP Human Geography; they are central to all geographic thinking and analysis and could even be considered central to any definition of geography.
Give a definition, any other information you might need to help you remember, and an example/illustration if it fits. Thinking of these will help you make connections and to test yourself later! Often your book, workbook, or yes, even the internet can help you with examples. They may not be “in order” (
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Basic Concepts
Field Work
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Globalization
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Physical geography
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Spatial
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Spatial distribution
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Patterns
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Spatial Perspectives/ 5 Themes
Spatial perspective
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Location
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Location Theory
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Human-environment interaction
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Region
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Place
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Sense of Place
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Perceptions of Place
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Movement
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Spatial interaction
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Distances
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Accessibility
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Connectivity
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Cultural Landscape
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Landscape
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Sequent occupance
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Maps
Cartography
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Reference maps
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Thematic maps
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Absolute location (site)
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Relative location (situation)
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Mental maps
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Generalized map
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Geographic tools
Global positioning systems (GPS)
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Remote sensing
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Geographic information systems (GIS)
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Scale and Connectedness
rescale
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Regions
Formal region
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Functional region
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Perceptual region
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Culture
Culture
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Cultural train
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Culture complex
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Cultural hearth
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Cultural diffusion
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Time-distance decay
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Cultural barriers
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Diffusion
expansion diffusion
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Contagious diffusion
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Hierarchical diffusion
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Stimulus diffusion
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Relocation diffusion
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Geographic Concepts
environmental determinism
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Possibilism
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Cultural ecology
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Political ecology
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“Others”
time zones
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More Maps
Scale
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Projections
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Grid lines
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latitude
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longitude
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Mercator’s Projection
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Cylindrical projection
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Conic projection
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Planar projection
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YOU SHOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO DEFINE THE WORLDS BELOW FOR EXTRA CREDIT-ATTACH AN EXAMPLE OF EACH
from Kuby Ch 1 or
de Blij Appendix A:
distortion
map projection
Mercator projection
Robinson projection
dot map
isoline map
choropleth map
proportional symbol map
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