International Date Line

An arc that follows 180 degrees longitude. Crossing it east moves the clock back 24 hours; west moves the calendar ahead one day.

A description of where something is in relation to other things.

How well two locations are tied together by roads or other links.

How quickly and easily people in one location can interact with people in another location.

Abandoned settlements of the western US.

Refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location.

A group of places in the same area that share a characteristic.

A physical characteristic of a place such as climate or topography.

The location of a place relative to another place.

Humans' tendency to perceive the characteristics of places in different ways based on personal beliefs.

A place name that provides insight into the physical geography, history, or culture of the location.

A measurement of how far or how near things are to one another.

Indicates the degree of nearness.

Time-space compression

The shrinking 'time distance' between locations due to improved transportation and communication.

Indicates that when things are farther apart, they tend to be less well connected.

The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

Matching patterns of distribution indicating that two or more phenomena may be related.

The number of something in a specifically defined area.

The way in which phenomena is spread out over an area.

Human-environment interaction

The connection and exchange between humans and their environment.

An imaginary line that circles the globe exactly halfway between the North and South Poles.

The study of how humans adapt to the environment.

Environmental determinism

The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development.

A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays.

The task of defining and describing landscapes.

The act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording firsthand information there.

All the information that can be tied to specific locations.

Remotely sensed information from satellites and professional images captured from planes.

The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape such as buildings, roads, signs, and fences.

AP Human Geo Chap. 1 Vocab Flashcards

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1.

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Spatial approach

Back

Considers the arrangement of the phenomena being studied across the surface of the earth.

2.

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Physical geography

Back

The study of the natural environment.

3.

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Human geography

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The study of spatial characteristics of people.

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Absolute location

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The precise spot where something is according to some system.

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Latitude

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The distance north or south of the equator.

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Longitude

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The distance east or west of the prime meridian.

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Prime meridian

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An imaginary line that runs from pole to pole through Greenwich, England and is designated as 0 degrees.

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