APHG Unit I review

Location

Place

Region

Movement

Human-Environment Interaction

Absolute and Relative

Absolute location determined by coordinates on a grid system, specifically Latitude and Longitude.

Relative location is determined by where something is in relation to something else.

A location with a defining characteristic.

May be human characteristics or physical characteristics.

Toponyms are place names.

An area with shared characteristics

Formal regions have defined boundaries.

Functional regions are centered around a focal point, or node.

Vernacular regions exist in the mind, through perception.

How people, ideas, and objects move through space.

Movement of people is migration.

Movement of ideas is diffusion, and can be expansion or relocation diffusion. Expansion diffusion can be contagious, hierarchical, or stimulus.

How humans adapt or use the environment in order to survive.

Ecumene is the habitable portion of Earth's surface.

Possibilism says it is possible for humans to live anywhere.

Determinism says the environment determines who and how people live where they live.

Science of map-making

Multiple types, multiple forms

Distortions

Scale: Global/Local or representation of size

Eratosthenes roughly considered the first.

Others put forth important ideas.

GPS

GIS

Remote Sensing