AP HUG 1.5 Vocabulary

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

Theoretically unlimited resources that will not be depleted based on use by people

Non-Renewable Natural Resources

Limited resources that can be exhausted by human uses

Land Use

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

Built Environment

The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape, in humans understanding of land use

Cultural Ecology

The study of how humans adapt to the environment

Environmental Determinism

The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces in 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

Geographic Scale/Relative Scale

The area of the world being studied

Aggregation

When geographers organize data into different scales

False Conclusions

Inaccurate generalizations that are not supported by the data or logical reasoning