AP GEO
The study of how humans interact with, organize, and change the Earth’s surface
What is human geography
A region organized around a central point or node, such as a city and its commuting area.
What is a functional region?
The spread of an idea from influential people or important places to others.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
What Mexican law attempted to stop immigration from the United States into Texas?
The Law of April 6, 1830.
What river forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico?
The Rio Grande.
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
Absolute location uses exact coordinates, while relative location describes where a place is compared with other places.
A region based on people’s beliefs or perceptions, such as “the South” in the United States.
What is a perceptual region?
The number of people living within a specific unit of area.
What is population density?
What was an empresario?
A person who received permission to bring settlers into Texas.
Which Native American group became skilled horseback hunters on the Great Plains?
The Comanche.
The increasing connection of countries and people through trade, communication, technology, culture, and transportation.
What is globalization?
The spread of cultural ideas, practices, or products from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
The total population divided by the total land area.
What is arithmetic density?
Which Native American group lived in East Texas and was known for farming?
The Caddo.
Who is known as the “Father of Texas”?
Stephen F. Austin.
An area of Earth that shares one or more characteristics.
What is a region?
The spread of culture when people physically move to a new location and bring their culture with them.
What is relocation diffusion?
The number of people per unit of arable, or farmable, land.
What is physiological density?
What country controlled Texas immediately before the Texas Revolution?
Mexico.
What were Stephen F. Austin’s first 300 families called?
The Old Three Hundred.
A region defined by a measurable characteristic, such as language, climate, or political boundaries.
What is a formal region?
The rapid spread of an idea or behavior from person to person through direct contact.
What is contagious diffusion?
The average number of children a woman is expected to have during her lifetime.
What is the total fertility rate (TFR)?
Name two famous defenders of the Alamo.
William B. Travis and James Bowie. Davy Crockett was also a famous defender.
In what year did Texas become a state of the United States?
1845.