AP Human Geography Unit 1

shows and labels human-created boundaries, such as countries, states, cities, and capitals

Environmental determinism was a school of thought that asserted

the contact, movement, and flow of things between locations

What is the numbering system that identifies locations of meridians?

What is the study of mapmaking?

Type of cultural diffusion that spreads "top-down" from areas of greater importance to lesser

Most used map projections are

A combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features

Relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and the Earth as a whole.

Distance Decay suggests

each dot represents a specific quantity

Vernacular Regions are

Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things

Where does the prime meridian pass through?

Study of place names; affected by characteristics of location

Spatial Thinking of Geography

Region united by more than one trait/characteristics

The arrangement of something across earth's surface

all points on the map are at proportionally correct distances from the center point

show and label natural features, such as mountains, rivers, and deserts

Characteristics of relative location

Data about earth's surface from a satellite or other long-distance methods

The world is shrinking

uses colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show location of spatial data

Hearth is....

He coined the term 'geography'

180 degrees longitude, clock moves 24 hours

This type of cultural diffusion spreads outward in all directions from a source.

Environment sets limits on humans but they can alter it to meet their needs

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

Which of the following maps would have the largest scale?

defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to

The inverse relationship between distance and connection (cultural and spatial)

Functional Region

Diagrammatic presentation in highly abstracted or simplified form

Definition of site

Characteristics of absolute location

Maintenance of a resource in its present condition, with as little human impact as possible.

Distortion of Mercator Projection

Definition of sense of place

show and label highways and streets

the process geographers use to divide and categorize space into smaller areal units

According to the Gravity Model

process of interaction and integration between people, trade and governments

Use of earth's resources that don't constrain resources in the future.

What are the three types of regions?

Definition of Site

sizes of countries, states, counties, etc. are shown according to specific statistics

points of equal elevation are connected

Which of the following is a type of scale?

Definition of situation

All map projections contain which of the following distortion:

Focal point, defined by activity that occurs across region, united by networks

Distortion of Robinson Projection (general use)

maps that people create in their minds based on experience and knowledge