A Vocabulary List For AP Human Geography
Place the number of the article in the blank before the vocabulary word. Each term may only be used one time.
Geography: Its Nature And Perspectives
¾ Built Landscape
¾ Sequent Occupance
¾ Cultural Landscape
¾ Arithmetic Density
¾ Physiological Density
¾ Relocation Diffusion
¾ Hearth
¾ Expansion Diffusion
¾ Hierarchical Diffusion
¾ Contagious Diffusion
¾ Stimulus Diffusion
¾ Absolute Direction
¾ Relative Direction
¾ Dispersion/Concentration: Dispersed/Scattered
¾ Dispersion/Concentration: Clustered/Agglomerated
¾ Absolute Distance
¾ Relative Distance
¾ Distribution
¾ Environmental Determinism
¾ Absolute Location
¾ Relative Location
¾ Site
¾ Situation
¾ Toponym (Place Name)
¾ Linear Pattern
¾ Centralized Pattern
¾ Random Pattern
¾ Natural Landscape
¾ Possibilism
¾ Formal/Uniform Region
¾ Functional/Nodal Region
¾ Perceptual/Vernacular Region
¾ Scale
¾ Spatial
¾ Accessibility
¾ Connectivity
¾ Distance Decay
¾ Friction Of Distance
¾ Time-Space Compression
¾ Distortion
¾ Geographic Information System (GIS)
¾ Global Positioning System (GPS)
¾ Map Scale
¾ Thematic Map Type
¾ Statistical Map Type
¾ Cartogram
¾ Dot Map Type
¾ Choropleth Map Type
¾ Isoline Map Type
¾ Mental Map
¾ Model
¾ Projection
¾ Remote Sensing
¾ Time Zones
Population
¾ Age Distribution
¾ Carrying Capacity
¾ Cohort
¾ Demographic Equation
¾ Demographic Momentum
¾ Demographic Regions
¾ Demographic Transition Model
¾ Dependency Ratio
¾ Diffusion Of Fertility Control
¾ Disease Diffusion
¾ Doubling Time
¾ Ecumene
¾ Epidemiological Transition Model
¾ Gendered Space
¾ Infant Mortality Rate
¾ J-Curve
¾ Maladaptation
¾ Malthus, Thomas
¾ Mortality
¾ Natality
¾ Neo-Malthusian
¾ Overpopulation
¾ Population Densities
¾ Population Distributions
¾ Population Explosion
¾ Population Projection
¾ Population Pyramid
¾ Rate Of Natural Increase
¾ S-Curve
¾ Sex Ratio
¾ Standard Of Living
¾ Sustainability
¾ Underpopulation
¾ Zero Population Growth
Migration
¾ Activity Space
¾ Chain Migration
¾ Cyclic Movement
¾ Distance Decay
¾ Forced
¾ Gravity Model
¾ Internal Migration
¾ Intervening Opportunity
¾ Intercontinental Migration Patterns
¾ Interregional Migration Patterns
¾ Rural-Urban Migration Patterns
¾ Migratory Movement
¾ Periodic Movement
¾ Personal Space
¾ Place Utility
¾ Push-Pull Factors
¾ Refugee
¾ Space-Time Prism
¾ Step Migration
¾ Transhumance
¾ Transmigration
¾ Voluntary Migration
Cultural Geography
¾ Acculturation
¾ Adaptive Strategies
¾ Anglo-American Landscape Characteristics
¾ Apartheid
¾ Architectural Form
¾ Assimilation
¾ Balkanization
¾ Basque
¾ Block Busting
¾ British Received Pronunciation
¾ Built Environment
¾ Centrifugal Forces
¾ Centripetal Forces
¾ Cosmogony
¾ Creole
¾ Cultural Adaptation
¾ Cultural Core/Periphery Pattern
¾ Cultural Ecology
¾ Cultural Identity
¾ Cultural Landscape
¾ Cultural Realm
¾ Culture
¾ Culture Region
¾ Custom
¾ Dialect
¾ Ethnic Cleansing
¾ Ethnic Religions
¾ Ethnicity
¾ Extinct Languages (Examples)
¾ Folk Culture
¾ Folk Food
¾ Folk House
¾ Folk Music
¾ Folk Songs
¾ Folklore
¾ Fundamentalism
¾ Generation
¾ Ghetto
¾ Habit
¾ Hajj
¾ Ideograms
¾ Indo-European Languages
¾ Innovation Adoption
¾ Isogloss
¾ Isolated Languages
¾ Kurgans
¾ Language
¾ Language Branch
¾ Language Family
¾ Language Group
¾ Language Subfamily
¾ Lingua Franca
¾ Linguistic Diversity
¾ Lumbini
¾ Maladaptive Diffusion
¾ Material Culture
¾ Mecca
¾ Missionaries
¾ Monolingual/Multilingual
¾ Mosque
¾ Multilingual States (Examples)
¾ Multi-National State
¾ Nationalism
¾ Nationality
¾ Non-Material Culture
¾ Official Language
¾ Pagan
¾ Pagoda
¾ Pidgin
¾ Popular Culture
¾ Popular Music
¾ Proto-Indo-European
¾ Race
¾ Russification
¾ Separate But Equal
¾ Social Customs
¾ Spanglish
¾ Standard Language
¾ Survey Systems
¾ Taboo
¾ Terms For “God”
¾ Trade Language
¾ Traditional Architecture
¾ Unchanging Languages
¾ Uniform Landscape
¾ Universalizing Religions
¾ Vernacular
¾ Wat
¾ White Flight
Political Geography
¾ Annexation
¾ Antarctica
¾ Apartheid
¾ Border Landscape
¾ Buffer State
¾ Capital City
¾ City-State
¾ Colonialism
¾ Confederation
¾ Conference Of Berlin (1884)
¾ Core
¾ Periphery
¾ Decolonization
¾ Devolution
¾ Domino Theory
¾ EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)
¾ Electoral Regions
¾ Enclave
¾ Exclave
¾ Ethnic Conflict
¾ European Union
¾ Federal
¾ Forward Capital
¾ Frontier
¾ Geopolitics
¾ Gerrymander
¾ Global Commons
¾ Heartland Theory
¾ Rimland Theory
¾ Immigrant States
¾ International Organization
¾ Iron Curtain
¾ Irredentism
¾ Israel/Palestine
¾ Landlocked
¾ Law Of The Sea
¾ Lebanon
¾ Mackinder, Halford J.
¾ Manifest Destiny
¾ Median-Line Principle
¾ Microstate
¾ Ministate
¾ Multination state
¾ Multistate nation
¾ Nation
¾ National Iconography
¾ Nation-State
¾ Nunavut
¾ Raison D’être
¾ Reapportionment
¾ Regionalism
¾ Religious Conflict
¾ Reunification
¾ Satellite State
¾ Self-Determination
¾ Shatterbelt
¾ Sovereignty
¾ State
¾ Stateless Ethnic Groups
¾ Stateless Nation
¾ Suffrage
¾ Supranationalism
¾ Territorial Disputes
¾ Territoriality
¾ Theocracy
¾ Treaty Ports
¾ Unitary
¾ USSR Collapse
¾ Women’s Enfranchisement
¾ Definitional Boundary, Disputes
¾ Locational Boundary, Disputes
¾ Operational Boundary, Disputes
¾ Allocational Boundary, Disputes
¾ Antecedent Boundary, Origin
¾ Subsequent Boundary, Origin
¾ Superimposed Boundary, Origin
¾ Relic Boundary, Origin
¾ Definition Boundary, Process
¾ Delimitation Boundary, Process
¾ Demarcation Boundary, Process
¾ Natural/Physical Boundary, Type Ethnographic/Cultural Boundary, Type
¾ Geometric Boundary, Type
¾ Compact, Territorial Morphology Fragmented, Territorial Morphology Elongated, Territorial Morphology Prorupt, Territorial Morphology Perforated, Territorial Morphology
¾ UNCLOS (UN Convention On The Law Of The Sea)
Agricultural – Rural Land Use
¾ Agrarian
¾ Agribusiness
¾ Agricultural Industrialization
¾ Agricultural Landscape
¾ Agricultural Location Model
¾ Agricultural Origins
¾ Agriculture
¾ Animal Domestication
¾ Aquaculture
¾ Biorevolution
¾ Biotechnology
¾ Collective Farm
¾ Intensive Commercial Agriculture
¾ Extensive Commercial Agriculture
¾ Crop Rotation
¾ Cultivation Regions
¾ Dairying
¾ Debt-For-Nature Swap
¾ Double Cropping
¾ Primary Economic Activity
¾ Secondary Economic Activity
¾ Tertiary Economic Activity
¾ Quaternary Economic Activity
¾ Quinary Economic Activity
¾ Environmental Modification (Pesticides,
¾ Soil Erosion, Desertification)
¾ Extensive Subsistence Agriculture
¾ Shifting Cultivation
¾ Slash-And- Burn
¾ Milpa
¾ Swidden
¾ Nomadic Herding/Pastoralism
¾ Extractive Industry
¾ Farm Crisis
¾ Farming
¾ Feedlot
¾ First Agricultural Revolution
¾ Fishing
¾ Food Chain
¾ Forestry
¾ Globalized Agriculture
¾ Green Revolution
¾ Growing Season
¾ Hunting And Gathering
¾ Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
¾ Intertillage
¾ Livestock Ranching
¾ Market Gardening
¾ Mediterranean Agriculture
¾ Mineral Fuels
¾ Mining
¾ Planned Economy
¾ Plant Domestication
¾ Plantation Agriculture
¾ Renewable/Nonrenewable
¾ Dispersed Rural Settlement
¾ Nucleated Rural Settlement
¾ Village Form Rural Settlement
¾ Sauer, Carl O.
¾ Second Agricultural Revolution
¾ Specialization
¾ Staple Grains
¾ Suitcase Farm
¾ Long Lots Survey Patterns
¾ Metes And Bounds Survey Patterns
¾ Township-And-Range Survey Patterns
¾ Sustainable Yield
¾ Third Agricultural Revolution
¾ “Tragedy Of The Commons”
¾ Transhumance
¾ Truck Farm
¾ Von Thünen, Johann
Economic Geography:
¾ Calorie Consumption
¾ Capital (Investment)
¾ Core-Periphery Model
¾ Cultural Convergence
¾ Dependency Theory
¾ Development
¾ Energy Consumption
¾ Foreign Direct Investment
¾ Gender
¾ Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
¾ Gross National Product (GNP)
¾ Human Development Index
¾ Levels Of Development
¾ Measures Of Development
¾ Neo-Colonialism
¾ Physical Quality Of Life Index
¾ Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
¾ W.W. Rostow
¾ Technology Gap
¾ Technology Transfer
¾ Third World
¾ World Systems Theory
¾ Acid Rain
¾ Agglomeration
¾ Agglomeration Economies
¾ Air Pollution
¾ Aluminum Industry
¾ Assembly Line Production/Fordism
¾ Bid Rent Theory
¾ Break-Of-Bulk Point
¾ Canadian Industrial Heartland
¾ Carrier Efficiency
¾ Comparative Advantage
¾ Cumulative Causation
¾ Deglomeration
¾ Deindustrialization
¾ Economies Of Scale
¾ Eco-Tourism
¾ Energy Resources
¾ Entrepot
¾ Export Processing Zone
¾ Fixed Costs
¾ Footloose Industry
¾ Four Tigers
¾ Greenhouse Effect
¾ Growth Poles
¾ Industrial Location Theory
¾ Industrial Regions
¾ Industrial Revolution
¾ Infrastructure
¾ International Division Of Labor
¾ Labor-Intensive
¾ Least-Cost Location
¾ Major Manufacturing Regions
¾ Manufacturing Exports
¾ Manufacturing/Warehouse Location
¾ Maquiladora
¾ Market Orientation
¾ Multiplier Effect
¾ NAFTA
¾ Outsourcing
¾ Ozone Depletion
¾ Plant Location
¾ “Just In Time” Delivery
¾ Postindustrial
¾ Refrigeration
¾ Resource Crisis
¾ Resource Orientation
¾ Special Economic Zones (China)
¾ Specialized Economic Zones
¾ Substitution Principle
¾ Threshold/Range
¾ Topocide
¾ Trade –Complementarity
¾ Transnational Corporation
¾ Ubiquitous
¾ Variable Costs
¾ Alfred Weber
¾ Weight-Gaining
¾ Weight-Losing
¾ World Cities
¾ World Bank
¾ International Monetary Fund
¾ World Trade Organization
¾
Urban Geography
¾ Megalopolis/Conurbation
¾ Barriadas
¾ Metropolitan area
¾ Bid-rent theory
¾ Multiple nuclei model
¾ Blockbusting
¾ Multiplier effect
¾ Infrastructure
¾ Inner city
¾ Invasion and succession
¾ Lateral commuting
¾ CBD
¾ Neighborhood
¾ Medieval cities
¾ Census tract
¾ Office park
¾ Megacities
¾ Centrality
¾ Peak land value intersection
¾ Urbanization
¾ Centralization
¾ Planned communities
¾ Urbanized population
¾ Central-place theory
¾ Postindustrial city
¾ World city
¾ Christaller, Walter
¾ Postmodern urban landscape
¾ Zone in transition
¾ City
¾ Primate city
¾ Zoning
¾ Cityscapes
¾ Racial steering
¾ Colonial city
¾ Rank-size rule
¾ Commercialization
¾ Redlining
¾ Commuter zone
¾ Restrictive covenants
¾ Concentric zone model
¾ Sector model
¾ Counterurbanization
¾ Segregation
¾ Decentralization
¾ Nucleated Settlement form
¾ Dispersed Settlement form
¾ Elongated Settlement form
¾ Deindustrialization
¾ Shopping mall
¾ Early cities
¾ Economic base (basic/nonbasic)
¾ Slum
¾ Edge city
¾ Social structure
¾ Emerging cities
¾ Specialization
¾ Employment structure
¾ Squatter settlement
¾ Ethnic neighborhood
¾ Street pattern – grid
¾ Street pattern – access control
¾ Favela
¾ Suburb
¾ Female-headed household
¾ Suburbanization
¾ Festival landscape
¾ Symbolic landscape
¾ Gateway city
¾ Tenement
¾ Gender
¾ Threshold/range
¾ Gentrification
¾ Town
¾ Ghetto
¾ Underclass
¾ Globalization
¾ Underemployment
¾ Great cities
¾ Urban growth rate
¾ High-tech corridors
¾ Urban function
¾ Hinterland
¾ Urban hearth area
¾ Hydraulic civilization
¾ Urban heat island
¾ Indigenous city
¾ Urban hierarchy