FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP HUG UNIT 1 VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP HUG UNIT 1 VOCAB

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Question 1: relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space

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Connections Question 2: a law that divided much of the US into townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers

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Land Ordinance of 1785 Question 3: an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity

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Vernacular Region Question 4: the time in that zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude

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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Question 5: the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

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Distance Decay Question 6: the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives

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Possibilism Question 7: a 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws of human geographers could be found in the physical sciences; geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activites

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Environmental Determinism Question 8: the study of the spatial variation in the patterns and processes related to human activity

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Human Geography

Question 9: the physical gap or interval between two objects

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Space Question 10: the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator

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Latitude

Question 11: an area organized around a node or focal point

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Functional Region

Question 12: geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships

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Cultural Ecology

Question 13: a map line that connects points of equal or very similar values

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Isoline Question 14: a company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located

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Transnational Corporation Question 15: the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

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Contagious Diffusion Question 16: a projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors; it does not maintain area, shape, distance, or direction completely accurately, but it minimizes errors in each

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Robinson Projection Question 17: thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents, or births

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Dot Maps Question 18: the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process

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Expansion Diffusion

Question 19: the position of anything on Earth's surface

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Location Question 20: the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area

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Density

Question 21: the physical character of a place

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Site Question 22: an arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas; marks where each new day begins

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International Date Line Question 23: the exact position of an object or place, measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system

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Absolute Location Question 24: an image of a portion of Earth's surface that an individual creates in his or her mind; includes knowledge of actual locations and relationships among locations as well as personal perceptions and preferences of particular places

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Cognitive Map Question 25: an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics

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Formal Region Question 26: an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features

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Region