AP HUG Ultimate Vocab Review (Choiceboard 2B)

Most common tool that geographers use to help them identify and analyze world patterns/processes

• Map
• GPS
• Spatial Approach

Study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities

• Physical Geography
• Human Geography
• World History

Study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment

• Physical Geography
• Human Geography
• World History

Precise spot where something is according to some system

• Relative Location
• Latitude
• Absolute Location

Description of where something is in relation to other thing

• Relative Location
• Longitutde
• Absolute Location

Abandoned settlements in western US that once had advantageous relative locations which disappeared or changed

• City
• CBD
• Ghost Town

Specific human and physical characteristics of a location

• Place
• Area
• Location

Characteristics at the immediate location (ZOOM IN)

• Situation
• Site
• Specificity

Location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places (ZOOM OUT)

• Situation
• Site
• Broadness

A place with no strong emotional ties in people

• Notability
• Irrelevance
• Placelessness