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Chapter 1 Vocab for AP Human Geo
Vocab words and definitions for chapter one of human geography book
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Geography
9th Grade
09/03/2011

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Agricultural Density
Definition
The number of farmers per unit of farmland.
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Arithmetic Density
Definition
Total number of objects in an area.
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Base Line
Definition
East to West lines that define a township.
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Cartography
Definition
The science of map making.
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Concentration
Definition
A feature's spread over a space.
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Connections
Definition
Relationships between people and objects.
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Contagious Diffusion
Definition
A rapid and wide spread diffusion.
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Cultural Ecology
Definition
The study of human-environment relationships.
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Cultural Landscape
Definition
The combination of cultural features.
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Culture
Definition
A body of customary beliefs.
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Density
Definition
The frequency of something in a space.
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Diffusion
Definition
How something spreads from place to place.
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Distance Decay
Definition
The process of which the further away two things are, the less contact they have.
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Distribution
Definition
An arrangement of an object in a space.
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Environmental Determinism
Definition
How physical environments cause social developments.
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Expansion Diffusion
Definition
The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowball process.
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Formal Region
Definition
An area where everyone shares a certain characteristic.
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Geographical Information System (GIS)
Definition
A computer system that can process geographic data.
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
Definition
System that determines an accurate location.
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Globalization
Definition
The force that involves the whole world to result in making something worldwide.
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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Definition
The time zone at zero degrees longitude.
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Hearth
Definition
An area where an innovation originates.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
Definition
The spread of an idea from an authority to other people.
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International Date Line (IDL)
Definition
A lime that is twenty-four hours ahead to the east than on the west.
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Land Ordinance of 1785
Definition
Divided America into a system of townships.
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Latitude
Definition
The numbering system for parallels/meridians.
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Map
Definition
Model for the Earth's surface.
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