重要AP地理单词整理，词汇基础好 理想分不烦恼

AP人文地理和学校的地理课一样，充斥着大量的专有名词，它们是你冲刺地理5分的关键也是难点。本文就来为大家整理一些基本AP地理单词和它们的中英文释义。

AP人文地理考试介绍

AP人文地理涉及地理、文化、政治、经济等方面，要求考生从专业的角度来了解人与地理之间的各种关系，因此其重点一方面是记忆掌握专业的名词及现象，另一方面是消化理解，需要结合着实例分析阐述专业名词。

AP人文地理考试时间为2小时15分钟，60分钟的选择题（60道），75分钟的简答题（3道）。

基本AP地理单词整理

• Edge city: Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling. decentralized suburban environment.边缘城市

• Elongated State- a state with a long, narrow shape长条型国家

• Epidemiologic Transition:Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.疾病转型

• Ethnic cleansing: The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide.种族清理

• Ethnicity:Refers to a group of people who share a common identity 种族

• Expansion Diffusion: The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. 扩张扩散

• Federal State: An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government 联邦国家

• Fertile Crescent:historical region watered by the Nile, Jordan Euphrates,and Tigris Rivers肥沃新月地带

• Forced migration: the migrant has been compelled to move by cultural factors强迫移民

• Formal region: Definition of regions based on common themes such as similarities in language, climate, land use, etc.形式文化区

• Fragmented State: a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory分散型国家
  

• Friction of distance: A measure ofhow much absolute distance affects the interaction
  

• between two places摩擦距离
  

• Functional region: Definition of regions based on common interaction

• Generation :A term coined by artist and author Douglas  oupland to
  describe people born in the United States between the years 1965 and1980.X代

• Gentrification: The trend of middle- and upper-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods.中产阶级化

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS): A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data.地理信息系统

• Geometric boundary :Political boundaries that are defined and delimited bystraight lines几何边界
  

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