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AP Geo Unit 1 Test
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1
Rome conquered a state that used roads & began using their own version of roads, an example of
Stimulus diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Expansion diffusion
Relocation diffusion
2
A region organized around newspaper circulation or a TV station would be…
Functional
Vernacular region
Perceptual region
Formal region
3
An era is to a historian as a _________ is to a geographer
region
space
locality
location
4
Most of the world's population lives in
middle income countries
highest income countries
high income countries
low income countries
5
Hair stylists are in the ________ sector
secondary
tertiary
primary
quinary
6
The United Fruit company took over...
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Panama
7
Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods are examples of…
acculturation
syncretism
assimilation
diffusion
8
Which type of projection distorts areas towards the poles, making Greenland look huge?
Robinson
Mercator
Dymaxion
Peters
9
Fila’s headquarters are in Italy, its production facilities are located throughout Asia. Why?
cheap land
good supplies
cheap labor
highly educated
10
Climate, water, soil, vegetation, etc. make up what type of features?
political
site
situation
thematic
11
What is it called when a cartographer transfers locations on Earth’s surface to a flat map?
Projection
Toponym
Togography
Profile
12
In order to figure out the best place to build a mall, I would use...
Remote sensing
GPS
drones
GIS
13
The South is identified in different ways by different people, an example of a...
perceptual region
formal region
functional region
relocation region
14
What line is 180 degrees longitude?
Equator
Prime Meridian
International Dateline
Tropic of Cancer
15
Local diversity’s opposite term is what?
Acculturation
Functional diffusion
Spatial association
Globalization
16
Which is NOT an example of absolute location?
your address
44'N, 88'W
Your phone number
latitude and longitude
17
How many time zones are there in continental America?
8
4
16
24
18
What type of system stacks thematic layers of info on top of one another?
GPS
GIS
Thematic map
Remote sensing
19
Companies like McDonalds, and Nike are examples of…
MDC's
Space consumption
Transnational corporations
Localization
20
Because of its ____________, Istanbul is a center of trading goods between Europe and Asia
situation
site
21
Which of the following is not one of the three types of regions?
Perceptual
Formal
Functional
Performance
22
Which projection category portrays the relative size of landmasses most realistically?
Equal Area Projection (Peter's)
Dymaxion
Mercator
Robinson
23
The visible imprint of human activity on the earth is known as…
Cultural Region
Cultural Activity
Cultural Landscape
Cultural Place
24
This theory has become more applicable than time-distance decay...
space-distance compression
time-space decay
time-space compression
time-distance compression
25
Geography asks which two questions?
where and how
when and why
where and why
how and why
26
The flu would be an example of which type of diffussion?
Hierarchical diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
Relocation diffusion
27
What is the most accurate representation of the earth?
A globe
A map
A picture
A projection
28
The study of landforms, climate, and environmental change is which type of geography?
physical geography
cartography
political geography
spatial association
29
The relationship between the distribution of two features
Spatial association
Diffusion
Place
Region
30
Which is not an example of a cultural barrier?
language
religion
taboos
river
31
Detroit is a ________ for automotive technology
place
mashup
hearth
perceptual region
32
Auto factory workers are in the _________ sector
primary
tertiary
quaternary
secondary
33
Geographers are using ___________ to observe damage from Hurricane Dorian
GIS
map scale
GPS
remote sensing
34
A group of people's beliefs, traits, traditions and more comprise their...
material possessions
geography
culture
religion
35
To convert features on a map to actual size, what would you use?
geographic scale
map scale
perceptual scale
physical scale
36
Who invented the word geography?
Ptolemy
Strabo
Aristotle
Eratosthenes
37
What kind of map is this?
GIS
cartogram
thematic
election
38
Who carried on with geographic thought and study during the European Dark Ages? 2 are correct
Muslims
Mayans
Chinese
Greeks
39
The map of downtown Arlington Hts. is which scale?
small scale
large scale
40
The Human Development Index includes all of the following except
government freedoms
life expectancy
knowledge
standard of living
41
Coal miners are in the __________ sector
tertiary
primary
secondary
quaternary
42
The science of mapmaking is called…
cartography
Oneirology
physical geography
human geography
43
What geographic theory would allow for a green golf course in the middle of the desert?
Environmental Determinism
Possiblism
44
If you believed that Jamaicans are laid back because of the warm climate, you would support
possibilism
spatial distribution
environmental certainty
environmental determinism
45
US government forcing Native Americans to farm, rather than hunt and gather is known as
assimilation
placelessness
acculturation
syncretism
46
Extreme world poverty has gone up.
True
False
47
State boundaries form which type of region?
Perceptual
Formal
Functional
Performance
48
What is a key characteristic you would use to define globalization?
Space/Area
Connectivity
Place
Scale
49
Areas distinguished by unique combinations of distinctive characteristics are called
Area
Place
Space
Regions
50
What is another word for longitude lines?
Parallels
Meridians
51
The physical gap or or interval between two objects is called
Scale
Space
Place
Connection
52
All of these get distorted during projection except...
shape
direction
distance
toponym
53
Environmental determinism is considered
racist
imperialist
all of these
outdated
54
Who complied an eight-volume “Guide to Geography” that was used for more than a thousand years?
Aristotle
Eratosthenes
Strabo
Ptolemy
55
Using Earth’s resources in a way that ensures their availability in the future is called…
place sourcing
sustainability
pressure type
land mass
56
What has produced disparities in the economies between the core and periphery?
placelessness
patriotism
globalization
nationalism