Duplicate of AP Human Geography Chapter 1

Vernacular region includes all except

Geography, as a field of inquiry, looks at the world from a ____________________

Africa can be divided into Subsaharan and __________ Africa

He expanded the focus of geography to include human activity

Relative location

Anything built by humans is part of the

indicates that when things are closer together, they tend to be more connected

the way a phenomenon is spread out over an area

The Americas can be divided in English and

Time zones use

the number of something in a specifically defined area

Peters Projection strength is

Uses symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something

Goode- Homosoline weakness is

Uses various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the spatial data

¨The geometric arrangement of objects in space

is the measurement of how far or how near things are to one another

Geography is the why of

Formal regions include all except

Landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior

Used to show the specific location and distribution of something across the map

Functional regions include all except

refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location.

The relationship between humans and the natural world is

the precise spot where something is according to some system

Sizes of countries are shown according to some specific statistic

Robinson projection is

the shrinking between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication

the ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of those things on the map

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

He created a world map for sailors and is still widely used today

Eratosthenes used geometry to calculate Earth’s circumference and coined the term

Mercator Projection strength is

Cartographic Scale can be shown in all ways except

Not used to collect Geospatial data