AP Human Geography Fall Semester Review Unit 1

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Environmental determinism is the belief that

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the physical environment shapes humans and their actions.

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What is the technique that collects information from the earth from a distance?

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Remote Sensing

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Which map would have the smallest scale? Snellville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, World

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World

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What does a Mercator projection map show?

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standard map for navigation, straight segment of course, cylindrical, Greenland & Antarctica appear much larger

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Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as

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possibilism

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Human geography is

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the study of the human imprint on natural landscapes

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A functional region would focus on

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the central place of activity

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A hiker would use

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an isoline map

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A political map divides places into

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formal regions

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Cell phones have contributed to

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time-space compression