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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