Chapter 1 AP Human Geography

Of the 12 major regions of the US and so. Canada identified by Zelinsky, the one that is unique

Wilbur Zelinsky dlimited the perceptual regions of the US and southern Canada by analyzing

Founding of People's Republic of China

The mental map you have of places you routinely visit is a map of your:

In 1991, an outbreak of cholera killing over 10,000 people occurred in:

Spanish-American War

The greater the distance from the hearth the less likely an innovation will be adopted. This is

In their study on students' perceptions of place, Gould and White found that

Sense of connection that brings people closer together even though their distances are the same

Which is a good example of a functional region?

An area with an uneven distribution of temperature, or other resources can cause _____

Degree of linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network

Shown by those features and patterns reflecting human occupation and use of natural resources

Which form of diffusion cannot be transmitted by media (television, internet, radio)?

The diffusion of the hamburger to India with a vegetable patty instead of the prohibited beef

Geographical research that applies only to one place or region is

The misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features

An example would be: Lines of equal elevation above sea level

What is the "red line" called?

Plessy vs Ferguson

Which term best describes this map

Chicago's relative location changed markedly in 1959 because:

Processes that increase interactions, deepening relationships and heightening interdependence

Ratio of the distance on the map to the distance on the ground

Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:

Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:

What is most responsible for “hierarchical” diffusion, as opposed to “contagious” diffusion?

On a Mercator projection map, where are the landmasses most exaggerated in relative size?

Study of human cultures and their ability to adapt within a particular physical environment

World War 1

First use of an atomic bomb in combat over Hiroshima, Japan

Exact location of a place on a mathematical grid

____ includes the costs of overcoming the friction of absolute distance separating two places

The concept of culture is closely identified with:

An example of this would be: Similar language or religion - French speaking part of Canada

Cartographic scale refers to

Women's right to vote

Which of the following is not an example of a form of expansion diffusion?

Which term best describes this map type?

Except for South and Southeast Asia, which ocean influences the moistest areas of the world?

The South American country with the lowest daily calorie consumption per capita

First portable PC is introduced by IBM

The concern of geography with space puts _________ at the center of its agenda.

What term best describes this?

Vietnam War

In distance decay models, the slope of the decay function illustrates

What term best describes this map type?

Branch of geography focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils and vegetation of the Earth

The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows

Which term best describes what type of map this is?

US invasion of Iraq begins

Example of this: places where floods are common, houses are built higher up to avoid flooding

Hagerstrand claimed culture hearths should be viewed in the context of ___as well as space.

Conference of Berlin

___ in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement

To map the surface of the earth, geographers use different projections because

the art & science of making measurements of the earth using ___ on airplanes or satellites

A good example of a functional region would be:

An Example would be: city has a surrounding region within which workers commute to the downtown

Spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge from their place of origin to other areas

Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with:

the degree of linkage between locations in a network) among places

A real pattern of sets of places and the routes (links) connecting them

Locates place surface accurately

The measure of the capacity of a location to be reached by, or to reach different locations

What refers to the infusing of a locality with meaning and emotion

Two countries with very high percentages of arable land

Berlin Wall falls

Hagerstrand emphasized that culture hearths should be viewed in the context of ? and space

Cultural geographers identify a single element of normal practice (e.g. cattle herding) as:

A cultural complex is defined as:

What term best describes this picture?

MTV begins boardcasting

Intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena

Lack of alcohol in Islamic regions illustrates the effect of ___ on cultural diffusion

Bolshevik Revolution

_____% of Kenya's land is arable.

An example would be: Chicago is on lake Michigan

What pattern type is this?

An example would be if one economy crashes, other countries will feel a strain on their economy

_____ is the name given to a place on earth

Given a topographic contour map, which pattern of contour lines would show the steepest slope?

The diffusion of Birkenstock shoes or of new styles of music tend to be examples of

Maps in which the shapes are deliberately distorted to show a disease in an area

Highlights particular features or a single variable such as temperature on city size

What term best describes this picture?

A region that observes uniform time and is divided along meridians

All choropleth maps use

What is the "Red Line"?

maps in our minds of places we have been and places we have merely heard of

It categorizes a variable into classes & depicts each with different shading patterns or colors

A good example of a formal region would be a:

Israel is created from Palestine lands

It is estimated that _____ of the world's population is seriously malnourished

A ____ is a relationship among locations marked by concentration.