AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 3.2 Flashcards

The physical environment together with the visible and spatial expressions of the cultures that have acted on it

The human-made portion of a cultural landscape, including buildings, roads, monuments, utilities, and other constructed features

Geographer who helped establish the approach that cultures transform natural landscapes into cultural landscapes

The visible arrangement of fields, crops, irrigation, farm structures, roads, and settlements created by agricultural practices

The spatial pattern of factories, mines, warehouses, transportation, worker housing, power facilities, and other features associated with production

A landscape whose places, features, organization, or land use carry religious significance

A place name that can preserve evidence of language, religion, political authority, identity, or settlement history

Architecture following forms and construction practices passed from one generation to another and associated with inherited customs

Architecture based on ordinary local building traditions, often using local materials and built without formally trained architects

Architecture emphasizing function, simplified geometric forms, limited ornament, and industrial materials such as steel, glass, and concrete

Architecture reacting against modernist uniformity by using ornament, symbolism, historical references, bright colors, or mixed traditions

The organization of space for activities such as residence, agriculture, commerce, industry, transportation, worship, recreation, and conservation

A land-division system of long, narrow parcels extending from a river, road, or canal, giving many owners access to water and transportation

A land-division system describing parcels through directions, distances, and landscape features, commonly producing irregular boundaries

Successive societies occupying and modifying the same place, each leaving cultural evidence that later groups preserve, alter, reuse, cover, or destroy

A landscape expressing ethnicity through settlement patterns, architecture, businesses, religion, foodways, festivals, monuments, language, or land use

An area containing a concentration of people, institutions, and businesses associated with a particular ethnic group

A concentrated ethnic social and economic community offering members employment, services, institutions, and support networks

Spanish for neighborhood; in English-language geography it may mean a predominantly Latino neighborhood but not necessarily an impoverished district or ethnic enclave

A landscape shaped by an Indigenous people's long-standing territorial relationships, land management, subsistence practices, sacred sites, and ecological knowledge

A land-division system that creates a regular grid of roads, fields, and property boundaries; its U.S. form uses a township-and-range framework