AP Human - Unit 1 Vocab Examples: Thinking Geographically

political maps, physical maps, road maps, and plat maps.

Reference Maps

weather maps showing changes in barometric pressure, temperature, or precipitation across space.

Isoline Maps

weather maps, popular among hikers.

Topographic Maps

the world population of Canada and Morocco as roughly the same size bc they have similar populations (35 million), even though Canada and Morocco are completely different sizes.

Cartogram

global scale earth at nighe

Small-scale Maps

Salt Lake City, Utah, as being "Just south of the Great Salt Lake and west of the Rocky Mountains, on Interstate 15 about halfway between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Butte, Montana,"

Relative Location

Going to South Forsyth High School, and interviewing students on their favorite subject.

Feild Observations

The distance between two diseases in Asia

Space

Mexico City is 19 degrees north latitude and 99 degrees west longitude

Location

The site of Riyadh

Place

The site of Riyadh, the capital and most populated city in Saudi Arabia, is a desert climate, a large labor force, and a modern Islamic city

Site

The site of Riyadh's situation includes being located roughly in the center of the Arabian Peninsula.

Situation

the characteristics of Rome, Italy, might be described differently by a local resident than by an outsider or by a Catholic than by a Hindu.

Sense of Place

Fernandina Beach, Miami Beach, and Pensacola Beach

Toponyms

New York City and London are separated by an ocean, but the development of air travel greatly reduced travel time between them.

Time-Space Compression

the weakening of a radio signal as it travels across space away from the radio tower

Friction of Distance

high amount of malaria cases in a certain area

Pattern

encourage companies to increase the use of renewable, less air-polluting energy sources and decrease the use of non-renewable fossil fuels

sustainability

Buildings, roads, signs, farms, and fences

Built Environment

North America or South Asia

World Regional Scale

United States or Thailand

National Scale

The Midwest or Eastern China

National Regional Scale

Scale for a local neighborhood

Local Scale

using international data to see how long people in a specific country live.

False Conclusion

Sub-Saharan Africa

Region

- Political: Brazil in South America

- Physical: Sahara, vast desert in northern Africa

- Cultural: southwestern Nigeria, most people speak Yoruba

- Economic: Gold Coast of Africa, exports gold

Formal Region

- Pizza delivery; pizza shop is node

- A state or country as is government makes regulations that apply within its boundaries; capital is the node

- Flight paths; airport is node

Functional Region (nodal regions)

American South, Middle East, and Upstate New York.

Perceptual Regions