AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Vocab

What is Absolute location?

• A place you're certain you're at

• description of the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as latitude and longitude.

• a map in which the projection and scale are distorted in order to convey the information of a variable.

What is Cartogram?

• its a kind of cart that you bring to go to the grammy awards.

• a map showing the elevation and landscape of a region.

• a map in which the projection and scale are distorted in order to convey the information of a variable.

What is a Choropleth Map?

• a map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the variable.

• a map in which it shows man made features like mines, railroads, cities, etc.

• a map that focuses mostly on one region and the animals/harvest around. Helps people for hunting, and harvesting.

What is Concentration?

• The spread of something over a given area.

• thinking hard, brain storming, or focusing.

• A hand game to play with friends when you're bored.

What is Cultural Ecology?

• an approach that mainly focuses on peoples jobs and environments offerings.

• A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environmental relationships.

• an approach on a(n) environments economy and wealth in harvest.

What is Cultural Landscape?

• a landscape that's very dry and terrible for harvesting crops.

• an approach to the way of people living, showing their habits, and language.

• An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.

What is Culture?

• The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition.

• Culture is a kind of food sold in street markets, its a meat that's enriched with spices.

What is Density?

• Frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

• the weight of an object

What is Distance Decay?

• Diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

• Slowly dying as distance/time goes on.

What is Distribution?

• Arrangement of something across Earth's surface.

• to give something out.