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- Absolute Location. This term refers to a point on the Earth’s surface defined with precision using geographic coordinates such as latitude and longitude; it provides a unique numerical identity for each location.
- Anthropocene. This term proposes a new geological epoch characterized by the significant global impact of human activities on the Earth’s ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, and land use changes; its usage reflects the recognition of human influence on the planet’s health.
- Balkanization. This is a geopolitical process where a region or state fractures into smaller autonomous entities due to ethnic, social, political, or economic divisions; it represents the conflict and disintegration often driven by ethnic enmity.
- Carrying Capacity. This concept signifies the maximum population of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely given available resources like food, water and habitat; it showcases the balance between resource availability and consumption.
Part 1: Major Geographical Concepts. Geographical concepts include location, place, scale, space, pattern, nature and society, networks, flows, regionalization, and globalization. The goals and objectives of this module are to: Explain major geographical concepts underlying the geographic perspective.
AP Human Geography Guide From Simple Studies, https://simplestudies.edublogs.org & @simplestudiesinc on Instagram Unit 1 Notes 5 Themes of Geography: -Location - The relative location and the absolute location (made of the latitude and longitude). -Place - The distinctive physical and human characteristics of an area.
Map scale (distance on a map relative to distance on Earth) The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. Examples: 1: 24,000 which means that one inch on the map equals to 24,000 feet on Earth's surface. 1' is five miles is the scale of the map.
Example: Population. Diffusion. Process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. Example: Seeds spread from trees. Distance Decay. Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears. Example: Friend moves away, you don't talk as much, and soon don't talk at all. Distribution.
a map that emphasizes a single idea or a particular kind of information about an area. absolute distance. spatial separation between two points on the earth's surface. absolute direction. Based on the cardinal points of North, South, East, and West. These appear uniformly and independently in all cultures, derived from obvious givens of nature.
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