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Cultural landscape

Unit 1 Vocab Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture

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Unit One Vocabulary - Nature and Perspectives 1. Human Geography - the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. The study of how humans interact with the world. 2. Sequent Occupance - The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. Each society in an area leaves a cultural imprint, adding to the cultural landscape. 3. Cultural Landscape - the fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. This is the essence of how humans interact with nature. How humans change and interact with nature. 4. Diffusion - The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. The spread of something from one place to another.

AP Human Geography – Vocabulary Lists Compiled by Martha Sharma, Hilton Head Completed by WHS-APHG Block 1 2006-07

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I. Geography – Nature & Perspectives Sequent occupance: The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. This is an important concept in geography because it symbolizes how humans interact with their surroundings. Cultural landscape: Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. This is the essence of how humans interact with nature. Arithmetic density: The total number of people divided by the total land area. This is what most people think of as density; how many people per area of land.
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