AP Human Geography Models and Theories

Popular culture often expands through

• migration or relocation diffusion

• the building of roads and internet technologies

• hierarchical diffusion

• adoption of electricity

Quick and widespread diffusion like a disease is known as

• Stimulus diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusoin

• Relocation diffusion

• Contagious diffusion

Actions involving the whole world and increasing connections between people, corporations, and/or organizations is BEST known as

• unilaterialism

• globalization

• multiculturalism

• milieu

The combination of a place's cultural, economic, and physical features is known as its

• formal region

• cultural landscape

• uniform landscape

• place definition

The idea that one's environment is responsible for who people are and how they live

• Positivism

• 'Merica

• Possibilism

• Environmental Determinism

Environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment.

• Environmental Determinism

• Environmental Possibilism

• Cultural Determinism

• Cultural Environmentalism

The greater the distance from the hearth, the less likely the interaction would be is referred to as,

• Distance Decay

• Acculturation

• Time-Space Compression

• Sequent occupancy

Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact drainage has on part of the Florida Everglades?

• Movement

• Location

• Place

• Human Environment Interaction

made up of a central place and surrounding areas affected by it. Often, this is a metropolitan area that consists of a major city and lots of smaller towns or cities that surround it.

• functional region

• perceptual region

• cultural landscape

• free enterprise

Cell phones have contributed to

• possibilism

• networks

• time-space compression

• regionalism

• density