AP Human Geography Vocabulary

The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. It symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings.

• Cultural Landscape

• Networks

• Sequent Occupance

• Connectivity

Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. How humans interact with nature.

• Cultural Landscape

• Environmental Determinism

• Hearth

• Environment Possiblism

The total number of people divided by the total land area.

• Physiological Density

• Arithmetic Density

• Density

• Distribution

The number of people per unit of area of arable land.

• Arithmetic Density

• Density

• Distribution

• Physiological Density

The region from which innovative ideas originate.

• Origin

• Hearth

• USA

• Developed Countries

Process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

• Diffusion

• Distribution

• Relocation

• Expansion

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

• Expansion Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. This can happen in 3 ways.

• Expansion Diffusion

• Diffusion

• Distribution

• Movement

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or place.

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

• Expansion Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.

• Disease Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Expansion

• Movement