Duplicate of Chapter 1 AP Human Geography

Chicago's relative location changed markedly in 1959 because:

Which term best describes this map

An example would be: Chicago is on lake Michigan

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

Vietnam War

Women's right to vote

Bolshevik Revolution

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

Locates place surface accurately

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which term best describes this map type?

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

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

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

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

Conference of Berlin

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

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

A good example of a formal region would be a:

Which is a good example of a functional region?

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

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

A region that observes uniform time and is divided along meridians

What is the "red line" called?

Berlin Wall falls

Spanish-American War

_____ is the name given to a place on earth

Geographical research that applies only to one place or region is

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

Exact location of a place on a mathematical grid

Cartographic scale refers to

All choropleth maps use

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

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

What term best describes this picture?

First portable PC is introduced by IBM

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

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

Plessy vs Ferguson

MTV begins boardcasting

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

Exact location of a place on a mathematical grid

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

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

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

The concept of culture is closely identified with:

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

A ____ is a relationship among locations marked by concentration.

Israel is created from Palestine lands

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

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

US invasion of Iraq begins

What term best describes this?

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

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

What is the "Red Line"?

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

Cholera vaccines exist, but the problem is that:

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

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

A good example of a functional region would be:

A cultural complex is defined as:

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

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

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

Founding of People's Republic of China

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

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

What pattern type is this?

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

Exact location of a place on a mathematical grid

What term best describes this picture?

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

World War 1

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

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

Two countries with very high percentages of arable land

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

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

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

What term best describes this map type?

Cholera is an ancient disease with its source area in:

Exact location of a place on a mathematical grid

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

Which term best describes what type of map this is?

Geographer Carl O. Sauer is most closely connected with:

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

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

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