AP HUG Unit 1 Vocab

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and overcome those limits...

• Sustainability

• Possibilism

• Space

• Place

the relative size of lens we choose to use to observe geographical phenomena, includes local, regional, national, and global...

• Region

• Location

• Perceptual/Vernacular Region

• Scales of analysis

An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries...

• Region

• Absolute location

• Functional Region

• Space

An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area. These have well defined boundaries, beyond which the predominant or universal characteristic does not apply...

• Location

• Formal Region

• Place

• Functional Region

An area organized around a central focal point or node. The characteristic chosen to define this dominates at the node (aka core) and diminishes as one moves away from the node (aka the periphery).

• Absolute Distance

• Scale

• Functional Region

• Perceptual/Vernacular Region

An area that people believe exist as part of their cultural identity...

• Space

• Pattern

• Perceptual/Vernacular Region

• Formal Region

Data that is linked to a geographic location...

• Geospatial

• Clustered

• Elevation

• Place

A computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface. It can show many different kinds or layers of data on one map...

• Remote Sensing

• Satellite Navigation Systems

• Online mapping

• Geographic Information System (GIS)

The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface...

• Elevation

• Scale

• Map Projection

• Place

A method for taking the curved surface of the earth and displaying it on something flat...

• Remote Sensing

• Online Mapping

• Visualization

• Map Projection