AP Human Geography

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Across
  1. 2. a thematic map with continuous lines joining points of the same value
  2. 4. the number of persons per unit of land suitable for agriculture
  3. 5. a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
  4. 7. the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
  5. 8. contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
  6. 9. a system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth
  7. 11. the arrangement of a feature in space
  8. 13. the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place
  9. 14. an arc drawnbetween the North and South poles
  10. 19. exact position of an object or place relative to a grid system
  11. 23. rectangular-shaped maps with little shape and direction distortion, but a lot of size distortion
  12. 25. the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places
  13. 26. the parallel with the largest circumference and the place with 12 hours of daylight (0 degrees latitude)
  14. 27. the meridian that is 0 degrees longitude
  15. 34. distance A distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer.
  16. 35. the location of a place relative to other places
  17. 38. an area organized around a node or central point
  18. 39. a feeling for the features that contribute to the distinctiveness of a particular spot on Earth
  19. 41. the name given to a place on Earth
  20. 44. provide a specific meaning for a word or concept.
  21. 45. depending on the scale, different spatial assumptions can be made
  22. 46. a thematic map using shading to show a pattern of a variable (the darker the shading, the higher the concentration of the variable)
  23. 47. refers to the relationship of a feature's size on a map compared to its actual size on Earth
  24. 49. indicate or provide information about a specific topic without elaboration or explanation
  25. 50. created the word geography, accepted the Earth is sperical, calculated its circumference, and created a map of the Earth dividing it into climatic regions
  26. 51. central, wealthy, technologically advanced countries vs. less-developed, poor, and dependant countries
  27. 53. a numbering system used to locate each meridian on Earth's surface
  28. 54. the number of farmers per unit of farmland
  29. 56. an ancient Greek who wrote Guide to Geography and made many maps
  30. 57. relative to a fixed frame of reference and always point in the same direction, regardless of their location (north, south, east west)
  31. 58. the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel
  32. 61. the master reference time for all points on Earth; the time at the prime meridian
  33. 63. the study of where and why human activities are located where they are
  34. 65. theory that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment
  35. 66. lets us find unfamiliar locations by comparing them to familiar ones
  36. 67. the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
  37. 68. divided the West into townships and ranges to help with the buying and selling of land
  38. 69. the total number of objects in an area
Down
  1. 1. an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface
  2. 3. the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map
  3. 4. the north-south lines seperating townships
  4. 6. everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than far things
  5. 10. the physical character of a place
  6. 12. Provide a description or explanation of similarities and/or differences
  7. 15. a line following the 180 degree latitude line where when you cross it going west, you set the clock forward by 24 hours
  8. 16. maps that are useful for displaying information across the oceans, but land areas are smaller than on interrupted maps of the same size
  9. 17. provide the relevant characteristics of a specified topic
  10. 18. forms superimposed on the physical environment by humans
  11. 20. a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
  12. 21. the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
  13. 22. the science of map-making
  14. 24. an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of physical and cultural traits
  15. 28. the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
  16. 29. the extent of a feature's spread over space
  17. 30. relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
  18. 31. the geographic study of human-environment relationships
  19. 32. the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or other long-distance methods
  20. 33. map help people find and identify physical and/or political features
  21. 36. the geometric arrangement of objects in space
  22. 37. the theory that the physical environment causes social development
  23. 40. shows how a particular feature is distributed over an area
  24. 42. a two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth's surface, or a portion of it
  25. 43. help people find and identify physical and/or political features
  26. 48. the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
  27. 52. an area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics
  28. 55. the position that something occupies on Earth's surface
  29. 59. a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data
  30. 60. the frequency with which something occurs in space
  31. 62. provide information about how or why a relationship, process, pattern, position, or outcome occurs, using evidence and/or reasoning
  32. 64. the place from which an innovation originates