AP Human Geography Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

Popular Culture - Answer -The practices, attitudes, and preferences that many people in a particular group have in common. -heterogenus -changes frequently -found anywhere on cultural landscape -large societies Homogenization Thesis - Answer -globalization makes culture more alike EX: fast food restaurant, hotels, etc. Placelessness - Answer Part of Homogenization thesis -Edward Ralph (1970s) Def: Loss of unique character of places and instead are culturally standard. Geog...

What is folk culture? - Answer a culture traditionally practiced by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas What is popular culture? - Answer a culture found in large, heterogenous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics How does folk culture diffuse? - Answer relocation diffusion; spreads slowly How does popular culture diffuse? - Answer hierarchical; spreads rapidly What are characteristics of folk culture mu...

State - Answer Definition:the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation Example: United States Geopolitics - Answer Definition:the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state Example: border conflicts Regionalism - Answer Definition:loyalty to the interests of a particular region Example: loyalty to america Frontier - Answer Definition:an undeveloped field of study Example: the west was the last American front...

Definition of a State - Answer A politically organized territory that is administered by sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states. Sovereignty - Answer The quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority. 2. the status, dominion, power, or authority of a sovereign;royal rank or position; royalty. 3. sup...

agriculture - Answer the purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber subsistence agriculture - Answer level of farming in which a person raises only enough food to feed his or her family plant domestication - Answer altering the behaviors, size and genetics of plants to benefit humans First Agricultural Revolution - Answer The period roughly 10,000 years ago during which humans first began domesticating crops and animals terrace farming - Answ...

Agrarian - Answer characteristic of farmers or their way of life agribusiness - Answer highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership agriculture - Answer the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals aquaculture - Answer the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food biotechnology - Answer any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives t...

agglomeration economics - Answer the savings to an individual enterprise derived from locational association with a cluster of other similar economic activites, such as other factories or retail stores break - of - bulk point - Answer a location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another; a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another bulk gaining industry - Answer an industry in which the final product weighs...

Agricultural Density - Answer Ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. Low- MDC High- LDC Physiological Density - Answer Ratio of the number of people to arable land. High- LDC Low- MDC Arithmetic Density - Answer Ratio of the number of population by the land area. Ecumene - Answer Places of permanent human settlement are formed. Example: New York London Nonecumene - Answer Places where there is not permanent human settlement. Example: Antarcti...

Dispersion/Concentration- Dispersed/Scattered, Clustered/Agglomerated - Answer Dispersion- The spacing of people within geographic population boundaries. Concentration- The spread of a feature over space. Dispersed/ Scattered- If objects are relatively far apart. Clustered/ Agglomerated- If objects are close/grouped together. Distance- Absolute, Relative - Answer Distance- How far apart objects are. Absolute Distance- The distance that can be measured with a standard length. KM/MI ...

Walt Rostow's modernization model: - Answer assumes that all countries follow a similar path to development or modernization, advancing through five stages of development: 1)The society is traditional, - Answer and the dominant activity is subsistence farming. 2)Preconditions of takeoff: - Answer New leadership moves the country toward greater flexibility, openness, and diversification. 3)Takeoff: - Answer the country experiences something akin to an Industrial Revolution, and...