AP Human Geo Units 1 and 2 Review

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GPS

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a system that measures distance from a series of satellites to determines exact location on the planet

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Formal Region

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a region that is based on quantitative data (that can be documented or measured) - all government areas are this because they share a government

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ARABLE land is land suitable for ____________.

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Agriculture, or farming

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Scale is....

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the extent of spread of a phenomenon (event) over a given area, the relationship between the length of an object on a map and the feature that it represents on the landscape, the system used by geographers to transfer location from a globe to a map.

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Which of the following terms best describes regions that make up the political geographic divisions within a country? Cultural, Perceptual, Vernacular, Physical, Formal

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Formal

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A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it

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has a selected feature or internal uniformity

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Which of the following scales is represented in the map shown? Local, showing the towns and township areas in a county; Regional, showing the states or provinces in one part of a country; State or province, showing the counties or parishes; Neighborhood, showing the block along street boundaries; Block, showing the property lines and names of owners.

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Local, showing the towns and township areas in a county

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______ is the term used for economies, cultures, and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information

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Globalization

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Depicts what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located and is not based upon any actual measurement.

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mental map

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These maps show the importance of changing _____________ in understanding something (like cancer rates in the US)

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scale