AP huamn geography Unit 1 vocab set

Plat maps

Show and label property lines and details of land ownership

Choropleth maps

Various colors, shades of one color or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data

Qualitative sources

Not usually numbers - this data is collected as interviews, photos, remote satellite images, or descriptions

Scales of analysis

Studying phenomena by zooming in and zooming out in order to develop a more complete understanding of

Geospatial data

Quantitative and spatial - it tends to be an analysis using formulas and is mappable. There’s also a geographic location component to it

quantitative maps

Any information that can be measured and recorded using numbers

Spatial patterns

Refers to the general arrangement of things being studied

Time distance decay

The idea that things, such as cities, near each other are closely connected or related than things that are far apart

Spatial modes

Stymied maps and they illustrate theories about spatial distribution- developed for agriculture and urban land use

Cartogram

The size of counties (states, counties, etc) are shown according to some specific statistics

Isoline map

Uses lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space

Graduated symbol map

Symbols of a different sizes to indicate different amounts of something

Larger-more of something

Smaller-indicates less

Dot distribution map

Used to show the specific location and distribution of something across a map (dots)

Perceptual regions

They are defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to them

Functional regions

Regions that are organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity that occurs across the region

Formal regions

called uniform regions or homogeneous regions and are united by one of more traits - political, physical, cultural, or economic

National scale

One country

World regional scale

Multiple countries of the world

Possibilism

View that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environmental and focuses more on the role that human agriculture plays

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

Sustainability

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

Human environment interaction

The dual relationship between humans and the natural world (the connection and exchange)

Distance decay

Indicates that when things are farther apart, they tend to be less connected

Flow

Refers to the pattern and movement of ideas, people, products and other phenomena

Time space compression

“Shrinking time distance” between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication

Site

Described as the characteristics at the immediate location

Place

Refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location

Space

The area between 2 or more phenomena or things

Geographic information system

Computer system that can store, analyze, and display information from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets

Remote sensing

Fathers information from satellites that orbit earth or other craft above the atmosphere

Landscape analysis

The task of defining and describing landscapes

Dispersed distribution

spread out all over a large bare

Clustered distribution

The phenomena are arranged in a group of concentrated area

Relative location

A description of where something is in relation to other things

Absolute location

The precise spot where something is according to a system

Large scale map

Show a smaller amount of area with a greater amount of detail

Small scale map

Show a larger amount of area with less detail