AP Human Geography UNIT #1 Vocabulary

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The process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural:

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diffusion

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Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store? Options: Formal, Perceptual, Functional, Uniform

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Functional

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Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of Expansion and relocation.

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Expansion and relocation

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Scale is…

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the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

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What type of region would a corn field be? Options: Perceptual, Formal, Functional, Vernacular

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Formal

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Places that share similar characteristics are called

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regions

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What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees?

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latitude

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The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as:

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GIS

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Which of the following shows places on the Earth's surface the most accurately? thematic maps, globes, general-purpose maps, physical maps

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globes

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The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?

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Cultural Landscape