SLHS AP Human Geography: Nature and Its Perspectives

the contact, movement, and flow of things between locations

show and label property

Definition of situation

Art and science of mapmaking

Distortion of Robinson Projection (general use)

He is considered the father of geography

Characteristics of absolute location

Which of the following is a type of scale?

Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things

Distortion of Conic Projection

maps that people create in their minds based on experience and knowledge

Definition of sense of place

Region united by more than one trait/characteristics

Distortion of Mercator Projection

defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to

uses colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show location of spatial data

the process geographers use to divide and categorize space into smaller areal units

Study of place names; affected by characteristics of location

Types of Wallerstein's World-Systems

Spatial Thinking of Geography

shows and labels human-created boundaries, such as countries, states, cities, and capitals

use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space

points of equal elevation are connected

The inverse relationship between distance and connection (cultural and spatial)

Definition of site

Characteristics of relative location

show and label highways and streets

show and label natural features, such as mountains, rivers, and deserts

dominant capitalist countries which exploit the peripheral countries for labor, raw materials

dependent on core countries for capital and have underdeveloped industries

He calculated the circumference of the Earth

Which of the following is an example of geospatial technology?

share characteristics of both core and periphery countries

All map projections contain which of the following distortion:

Focal point, defined by activity that occurs across region, united by networks

sizes of countries, states, counties, etc. are shown according to specific statistics

each dot represents a specific quantity