AP Human Geography

What occurs when the number of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of life

• epidemiology 
• overpopulation 
• arithmetic density
• agricultural density 

A specific point on earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic.  Every place occupies a unique location, or position, on Earth's surface.

• place
• region 
• space
• connection 

GIS stands for 

• geographic information science 
• geographic information system 
• volunteered geographic information 
• geographic positioning system  

A parallel is also called a 

• longitude 
• prime meridian 
• longitude 
• meridian 

What is another name for Universal Time 

• Greenwich Mean TIme
• International Date Line 
• Prime Meridian 
• parallel

vernacular region  

• organized around a node
• occurs within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature 
• an area that people people believe exists as part of their cultural indentity
• transnational corporation 

a law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers

• Land Ordinance of 1785
• Land Divide of 1785
• Land Ordinance of 1875
• Land Divide of 1875 

possibilism 

• the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
• theory that the physical environment has no effect on anything 
• theory that people cannot adjust the physical environment 
• theory that people do not have the option to choose a course of action 

a term applied by geographers to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place

• distance decay
• space-time compression
• relocation diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion

the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

• contagious diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• expansion diffusion
• relocation diffusion