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APHG Unit 1
Vocabulary for APHG
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Social Studies
9th Grade
09/03/2015

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Enviromental Determinism

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the idea that enviroment determines what humans do.

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Connectivity

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The idea that the world is connected through communicatiom and network.

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Site

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A physical character of a place. like what its like there.

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Situation

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The location in realtivity to others

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Random Pattern

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Having no specified pattern

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Absolute distance

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The exact measuement of distance

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Absolute Location

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Exact Location

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Accesibility

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The allowance to have contact or interaction with a location. due to other locations

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Toponym 

Definition

 

 

 

Place Name

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Linear Pattern

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Straight Pattern

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Centralized Pattern

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Clustered concentration at a cetern place

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Physiological Density

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Number of people per Farm Land

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Diffusion

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The Process of spreading

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Hearth

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The origin from which things diffuse

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Relocation Diffusion

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The spread of something by moving around

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Inteernational Date Line

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one side back 24 hr. one side ahead.logitude 180 degrees
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Map

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U know what this is jade

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Built Landscape

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Shows how humans have interacted with it

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Sequent Occupance

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Leaves cultural Imprints on a place

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Arthmetic Density

Definition

 

 

 

A number

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Relative Location

Definition

 

 

 

 

what your around

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Functional/Nodal Region

Definition

 

 

 

ex Radio Stations

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Perceptual/ Vernacular Region

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Ex. South

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Scale

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The distance on a map compared to the distance on earths surface

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Size

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The physical deminsions, porportions, magnitude or extent of a object

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Time-Space Compression

Definition
The act of cutting down the amount of time it takes for something to pass over space
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Geographic tools

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Maps, GIS,GPS

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GPS

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Exact location

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North and south poles
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vertical on compass. artic antartica. where are axis pirces

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Latitude

Definition

 

 

 

Up and down. Meridins

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Parallel

Definition

 

 

Runs along never touches

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Equator

Definition

 

 

 

0 degrees. exactly between north and south 

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Longitude

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Equator similar. east and west of prime meridian

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Meridian

Definition

 

 

 

Line of longitude

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Prime meridian

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Greenwhich england. 0 degree logitude

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Definition
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Cultural Landscape

Definition

 

 

 

naturak lndscae by grouping

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Relative Distance

Definition

 

 

 

 

About how fr away school is

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Physical Attributes/Natural Landscape

Definition

 

 

 

not affected by humans

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Possibilism

Definition

 

 

 

 

the idea that humans are affected from enviroment 

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Region

Definition

 

 

 

A area distunguised by culture and physical features

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Distribution

Definition

 

 

 

Arrangement of feature in space

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Formal homogenious region

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same throughout the region

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Network

Definition

 

where things can go and how they do it

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Distance Decay

Definition

 

 

That distance makes it less important and less accesable

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Friction of distance
Definition
greater the friction the less interactin. distance decay
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Distortion

Definition

 

 

Maps  are distored

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GIS

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Layers thing and makes a general location of place

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Dispersed

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Spread out

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Clusterd

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close together

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Expansion Diffusion

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Snowballing process

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Hierarchial diffusion

Definition
node to node
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contagious

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AIDS

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Stimulous diffusion

 

 

 

Definition

 

 

 

spread of ideas even if one idea is rejected

wireless phones

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concentrantion

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the pattern of spacing 

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