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AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Basics
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the precise spot where something is according to some system
Site
Relative location
Absolute location
Situation
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Cartographic Scale can be shown in all ways except
scale
Words
Ratio
Line
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Landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior
Human Environment Interation
environmental determinism
Cultural Ecology
Possiblilism
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This shows and labels property
political map
plat map
road map
physical map
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¨The geometric arrangement of objects in space
Density
Concentration
Distribtution
Pattern
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Uses lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space
Isoline
Dot Density
Cartogram
Cloropleth
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Relative location
Connects 2 or more places
is absolute
needs Latitude and Longitude
is never accurate
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Not used to collect Geospatial data
Observation
GPS
textbooks
Fieldwork
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the process geographers use to divide and categorize space into smaller areal units
areaization
globalization
cartographization
regionalization
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He calculated the circumference of the Earth
Erastosthenes
Aristotle
Strabo
Ptolemy
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the shrinking between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication
Proximity
technology
situation
Time-space compression
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Used to show the specific location and distribution of something across the map
Isoline
Cartogram
Cloropleth
Dot Distribution
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Mercator Projection strength is
Area of Continents
Direction
Size
Shape of Continents
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the contact, movement, and flow of things between location
Locational Interactions
Spatial interaction
Interaction of things
Growth Mindset
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All map projections contain which of the following distortions
Size
Elevation
Shape
Distance
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He is considered the father of geography
Ptolemy
Kant
Aristotle
Eratosthenes
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show and label highways and streets
plat map
political map
road map
physical map
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The art and science of map making is
ideolography
locationography
cartography
mapography
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The relationship between humans and the natural world is
Location
Place
Distance
Human Environmental Interaction
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He expanded the focus of geography to include human activity
Aristotle
Erastothenes
Ptolemy
Carl Sauer
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Eratosthenes used geometry to calculate Earth’s circumference and coined the term
Eurasia
Geography
Cultural Geography
Human Geography
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shows and labels natural features, such as mountains, rivers, and deserts
plat map
road map
political map
physical map
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The Americas can be divided in English and
South American
Spanish American
Latin American
Central America
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The inverse relationship between distance and connection (cultural and spatial)
Place-Space accessibility
Distance Decay
Space-Time connectivity
World Systems Theory
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Definition of sense of place
specific human and physical characteristics of a location
perceiving characteristics of places in different ways
characteristics at the immediate location
location of a place related to other places
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Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things
Tobler's First Law of Geography
Wallerstein's World Systems Theory
Kant's Third Law of Geography
Mercator's Laws of Mapmaking
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indicates that when things are closer together, they tend to be more connected
Spatial interation
Distance Decay
Friction of distance
Time Space Compression
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Africa can be divided into Subsaharan and __________ Africa
South
Central
North
Muslim
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Geography is the why of
What
When
Where
How
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the ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of those things on the map
Scale
Cartographic
Projection
Geographic
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Time zones use
equator
Longitude
Latitude
Parallels
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He created a world map for sailors and is still widely used today
Buckminster Fuller
James Robinson
Arno Peters
Gerardus Mercator
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the way a phenomenon is spread out over an area
Pattern
Distribution
Concentration
Density
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Robinson projection is
least SADD
Some SADD
perfect
Not SADD
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Formal regions include all except
common traits
uniform
Homogeneous
node
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Anything built by humans is part of the
cultural landscape
Landscape
Nature
Natural Landscape
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Spatial Thinking of Geography
Understanding the growth of space travel
Directing relational movement of locations
Thinking about space
Understanding relationships between location & distribution
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Goode- Homosoline weakness is
Distance
Area
Direction
Shape
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Uses various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the spatial data
Dot Density
Isoline
Cartogram
Cloropleth
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is the measurement of how far or how near things are to one another
Location
Human Environment Interaction
Place
Distance
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refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location.
Distance
Place
Location
Human Environment Interation
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Geography, as a field of inquiry, looks at the world from a ____________________
global perspective
non-spatial perspective
spatial perspective
human perspective
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the number of something in a specifically defined area
Concentration
Distribution
Density
Pattern
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Peters Projection strength is
Area
Shape
Distance
Direction
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shows and labels human-created boundaries, such as countries, states, cities, and capitals
plat map
political map
physical map
road map
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Sizes of countries are shown according to some specific statistic
Topgraphic
Cartogram
Dot Density
Isoline
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Vernacular region includes all except
different defintions
undefined borders
perceptions
homogeneous traits
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Uses symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something
Cartogram
Isoline
Cloropleth
Graduated Symbol
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Which of the following is an example of geospatial technology?
GPS
GIS
satellite images
Cartogram
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Functional regions include all except
defined border
focal point
node
defined by a certain activity
