AP Human Geo Exam Vocabulary (pt.1)

the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.

the spread of feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.

the process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates

The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future

disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.

the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

a geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.

the number of people per unit of area of arable land.

short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.

the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.

land suitable for agriculture.

the place from which an innovation originates

a term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries who were in search of a higher-paying jobs.

a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.

permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

the number of people that are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people active in the labor force.

migration from a location.

A chain of communication that connects places

the fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.

increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the econom

everyday language of a particular place.

an area organized around a node or focal point

permanent movement from one country to another.

actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.

A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.

the specific point on earth's surface.

the arrangement of something across Earth's surface.

the total number of people divided by the total land area.

someone who has been forced to migrate as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.

the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.

A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.

a system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.

the long-term average weather condition at a particular location.

reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

the numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe (West to East)

A collection of languages from a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past

a bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex.

the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

a company that conducts research, and operates factories, not just where its headquarters or shareholders

the science of making maps.

the time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0' longitude.

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.

180' longitude.

the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but perople can change the physical enviroment

the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society.

a representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place

The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.

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

average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions

the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods.

the scientific study of population characteristics.

relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.

the spread of something over a given area.

Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

the portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

the name given to a portion of Earth's surface.

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca,

the physical character of a place.

the physical gap or interval between two objects.

the branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases

an area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.

can area on earth's surface in relationship to other landmarks.

an area or region that people believe exists.

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

the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of arable land.

permanent movement, usually compelled by political or cultural factors.

the scientific study of ecosystems.

a complete enumeration of a population.

collection of languages that possess a definite common origin or family but have split into individual languages

an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.

an arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.

Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin

a two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.

a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.

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

a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

A language that is written as well as spoken

a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs

migration to a new location.

net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.

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

a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.

the spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected.

The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area

system of communication through the use of speech

language that results from the mixing of a colonizer language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound

the numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe (North to South)

a situation in which the number of people in an area exceeds the available resources .

the average number of children a woman will have in their lifetime.