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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 REVIEW
AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 REVIEW
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A review of vocabulary terms, and idea's.
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The picture shows an airline leaving Chicago, what sort of region is this describing?
Vernacular Region
Functional Region
Perceputal Region
Formal Region
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What is the numbering system measuring distance North and South of the equator called?
Latitude
Longitude
Lithosphere
International Date Line
3
Someone playing American Football in South Africa would be what sort of diffusion?
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Hierarchal Diffusion
4
Cartography best describes which of the following?
Produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed.
The physical character of a place
The art & science of map making.
The given name to place on earth's surface.
5
You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of what?
Mathematical Location
Mathematical grid interchange
Situation on the grid system
Placename on the grid system
6
The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians is called latitude?
True
False
7
The following shows a map of Tx that is broken into geographical landscape regions.
Perceptual Region
Node Region
Functional Region
Formal Region
8
This map shows the area's that people commute to in larger cities. What type of region is this?
Formal Region
Vernacular Region
Perceptual Region
Functional Region
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The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.
Sustainability
Parallel
Scale
Density
10
The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is
Spatial Analysis
Distribution
Expansion Diffusion
Dispersal
11
Coordinates 5 E longitude, 10 N latitude. You do not need to look at a map in order to know
near the International Date Line as well as the North Pole
near the equator but far from the prime meridian
near both the equator & prime meridian
Near both the equator and the International Date Line
12
A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is
Distribution
Projection
Scale
Interruption
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Diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance
Distance Decay
Distribution
Density
Diffusion
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The iphone 8 release would be which type of diffusion?
Stimulus Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Hierarchal Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
15
People living in the south, north east, the west and mid-west. What type of region is shown?
Functional Regions
Node Region
Perceptual Regions
Formal Regions
16
The International Dateline is measured approximately from
180 degrees longitude
0 degrees latitude
90 degrees longitude
120 degrees latitude
17
To whom might globalization represent a threat?
Big business owners
Under-developed countries local businesses
Factory workers in America
Developed Country Businesses
18
A McDonalds in Japan would be an example of which of the following diffusions?
None of the above
Contagious Diffusion
Hierarchal Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
19
Pictured are the Rice Terraces in the Philippines. What vocabulary term best describes this?
Abiotic
Distance Decay
Cultural Landscape
Density
20
What type of regions does the photo describe?
Functional Region
Formal Region
Node Region
Perceptual Region
21
What type of region does the photo describe?
Formal Region
Functional Region
All the above.
Perceptual Region
22
Greenwich Mean Time is best described as
180 degrees longitude
0 Degrees longitude
130 degrees Fahrenheit
90 degrees Celsius
23
Distortion is especially severe and apparent on
Large scale maps
Small scale maps
Globes
All the above
24
Regions are only found where physical and economical characteristics are related?
False
True
25
Eratosthenes is known for which of the following?
All the above
Finding the circumference of the earth
Using the word Geography first
Creating one of the first map of the world
26
Spread of a trending news article on the internet would be considered what type of diffusion?
Relocation Diffusion
Hierarchal Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
27
The study of how humans and the environment interact is called what?
Cultural Possibilism
Cultural Ecology
Natural Selection
Diffusion
28
Globalization of the economy has done which of the following?
Leveled economic differences between places
Heightened economic differences among places
Decreased investment in less developed countreis
Drained resources from more developed countries
29
A region from which a phenomenon originates from is considered what?
Lithosphere
Hearth
Formal Region
Polder
30
San Francisco being a port of entry on the Pacific coast describes which vocabulary term best?
Hearth
Situation
Map Scale
Polder
31
Which of the statements most correctly regards the origins of geography?
None of the above
The Renaissance period is the start of Human Geography
Human Geography didn't exist before advanced techonology
Humans practiced geography since Ancient Greek civilization
