AP Human Geo words

Adapt

Adjust to new conditions or environments to survive or thrive

Assertion

Group or individuals attempt to influence, control, or affect people, places by controlling specific geographic areas

Bypass

Highway built redirect through traffic away from the center of a town or city, relieve traffic

Circulation

Short-term, repetitive or cyclical movements that occur on a regular basis

Ex: student goes to school, goes to practice sport, goes home - repeat

Compelling

Study of how people, places, and the environment interact and influence each other over time

Ex: spread of cultured foods over time - tacos Mexico

concentrated

How features are spread out over a given area. Whether a feature is clustered (high concentrated) or spread out (low concentrated)

concurrently

Influence of multiple factors on various scales of a particular place or event

distortion

The inaccurate representation on a map of the earth’s 3D curved surface on a 2D plane, leading to misrepresentations of shape, area, distance, or direction of geographic features

distributed

How people, cultures, and societies are arranged and spread across earth’s surface. Using patterns, density, and concentration of human populations and activities

Cultural diffusion - diffusion

influx

Arrival of people or things into a specific area or community at one time. Often using important demographic, economic, or social changes

Ex: migrants, refugees, tourists, new businesses - shapes society over time

infusing

Learn a clear understanding of human environment interactions into the study of a place. Using human context like culture, economics, history, emotional developlment that shape the world

innovation

Acceptance and spread of new ideas, methods, or products into a culture.

Different cultures diffusing across different regions

uniformity

Consistent and homogenous characters its found within a specific area or region, where similar traits or elements dominate the landscape. Physical, cultural or economic features can differ from locations being impacted by humans. Using spatial patters and distributions