APHG Unit 1 Review

The concept of distance decay is best described in which scenario?

• When fewer people read the Orange County Register the farther you are away from Orange County.

• People throughout a region generally speaking German.

• When many people move to another area using an ocean vessel.

• The diffusion of a disease along a highway corridor.

An area on the Earth defined by the feelings and images about the cultural identity of the area. Tend to have unclear boundaries. 

• Perceptual/Vernacular region
• Formal/Uniform region
• Functional/Nodal region 

The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called: 

• A.  referenced location 
• A.  central location
• A.  relative location
• A.  absolute location 

The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called: 

• absolute location
• relative location
• site
• situation

Cartographic scale is…                                     

• the system used by geographers to transfer locations  from a globe to a map
• the extent of spread of a phenomenon over a given area
•  the difference in elevation between two points in an area
•  the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?

• Cultural Landscape
• Place
• Location
• Human Environment Interaction

The physical qualities of the original location for a city is referred to as the

• site
• situation
• relative location
• absolute location

What is it called when you take a 3D image and put it onto a 2D surface?

• Cartogram
• Projection
• Globe
• Instagram

Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?

• Formal
• Perceptual
• Functional
• Uniform

Geographers group like things together into regions in order to make them easier to study.  What type of region would a corn field be?

• Perceptual
• Formal
• Functional
• Vernacular