AP human geography Final Review Guide

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Why are maps useful to geographers?

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maps can show some information better than written text

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What is meant by the term relative location?

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location of a place in relation to other places

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What name is given to the study of the interrelationships between people and their physical environment?

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Human environment interaction

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Why do geographers use a grid system?

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Identify the precise location of any place on earth

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What do functional regions focus on?

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a central point and surrounding territory linked to it

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All the following are examples of diffusion EXCEPT: Prohibiting Native Americans from teaching their tribal language, The spread of Christianity from Europe to the Americas, The introduction of horses to the Americas by the Spanish, Bringing movies made by the U.S. to a worldwide audience

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Prohibiting Native Americans from teaching their tribal language

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The Columbian Exchange involved plants, animals, and the transmission of

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infectious disease

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In Central America, ______ agriculture has destroyed huge swaths of rain forest.

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slash and burn

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In subsistence farming, a farmer . . .

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grows crops primarily to feed his or her family, selling any small surplus

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The effort to increase and diversify crop yields in India that began in the 1960's is called

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Green revolution