APHG Unit I review

APHG Unit I review

5 Themes

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

Location

• Absolute and Relative

• Absolute location determined by coordinates on a grid system, specifically Latitude and Longitude.

• Relative location is determined by where something is in relation to something else.

Place

• A location with a defining characteristic.

• May be human characteristics or physical characteristics.

• Toponyms are place names.

Region

• An area with shared characteristics

• Formal regions have defined boundaries.

• Functional regions are centered around a focal point, or node.

• Vernacular regions exist in the mind, through perception.

Movement

• How people, ideas, and objects move through space.

• Movement of people is migration.

• Movement of ideas is diffusion, and can be expansion or relocation diffusion. Expansion diffusion can be contagious, hierarchical, or stimulus.

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Human Environment Interaction.

• How humans adapt or use the environment in order to survive.

• Ecumene is the habitable portion of Earth's surface.

• Possibilism says it is possible for humans to live anywhere.

• Determinism says the environment determines who and how people live where they live.

Cartography

• Science of map-making

• Multiple types, multiple forms

• Distortions

• Scale: Global/Local or representation of size

Geographers

• Eratosthenes roughly considered the first.

• Others put forth important ideas.

Technology

• GPS

• GIS

• Remote Sensing

Multiple Choice

The idea that the physical environment limits human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to or act counter to that environment is called possibilism.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of relative location?

• Latitude and Longitude

• Near the store

• North, East, South, West

• North of The equator

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of a thematic map?

• Political Map

• Dot Symbol Map

• Cartogram

• Isoline Map

Multiple Choice

Which of the following projections have all parallels of latitude the same length as the equator and shows distortion in the poles.

• Robinson

• Mercator

• Galls Peters

• Waterman Butterfly

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a perceptual region?

• South China Karst Region
• City of Denver
• Southern United States
• French-speaking region in Europe

Multiple Choice

What are mental maps?

• Maps on our minds of places we have been and places we have merely heard of.
• Helps us see general trends 
• Data collected by satellites and aircraft
• Compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following do geographers use to compare a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment by combining layers of spatial data, and creating maps in which patterns and processes are superimposed?

• GPS
• GIS
• Scale
• Mental Maps

Multiple Choice

Which of the following uses a coordinate system to precisely plot where something is.

• Relative location
• Absolute location
• Generalized Maps
• GIS

Multiple Choice

Relative location is....

• location of a place in relation to other human and physical features.
• Precise coordinates of a place.
• General trends we see of a given phenomenon.
• Digitized representations of the environment.

Multiple Choice

Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization (ex. local, regional, global)

• Mental Maps
• Scale
• GPS
• Regions