APHUG vocab 31-47 U1

Newark charter school ap human geography unit one vocab words 31-47

place

the specific location and physical characteristics

site

the characteristics at the immediate location

situation

the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places

sense of place

the personal connections/attachments people have to a place

time-space compression

the shrinking “time-distance” or relative distance, between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication

flow

the patterns and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena

distance decay/friction of distance

When things are farther apart, they tend to be connected. The inverse relationship between distance and connection is known as distance decay.

spatial association

indicates that multiple phenomena may be related or associated to one another

Human-Environmental Interaction

the connection and exchange between humans and the natural world

natural resource

items that occur in the natural environment that people can use

renewable natural resources

unlimited natural resources that can’t be depleted based on use by people

nonrenewable natural resources

limited natural resources that can be exhausted by human uses

sustainability

trying to use resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while limiting negative impacts on the environment

land use

the study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people

built environment

the physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape

environmental determinism

the belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development while ignoring the influence of culture

possibilism

a view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays