AP Human Geography Chapter 1

Force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

A 19th and early 20th Century approach to the study of geography. Argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was then taught how the physical enviroment causes human activites.

An area that in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

A scale that shows the numerical ratio between distances on the map and Earth's surface.

An area orgainized around a node or focal point.

The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude.

An arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longutuden, although it deviattes in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east, the clock moves back 24 hours. When you cross the International Date Line heading west, the calende4r moves ahead by 24 hours.

The theory that the physical enviroment may set limits to human actions.

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

An area that people believes exists part of their cultural identity.

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition.

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to the other in a snowballing process.

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.