AP Human Geography Midterm Exam (Chapter 1 Test)

The frequency of something within a given area is 

• concentration
• density
• distribution
• pattern

The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments is

• spatial association
• environmental determinism
• possibilism
• cultural revatlism

Which of the following is NOT true

• Scale is the relationship between a portion of the earth being studied and the whole earth.
• Space refers to the physical gap between two objects.
• . Place is a specific point on earth distinguished by specific qualities.
• Space and place are the same thing.

Mormonism is most concentrated in the counties surrounding Salt Lake City, Utah, and the population of Mormons as a percentage of total county population begins to decline the further away from Salt Lake City. This is an example of

• assimilation
• acculturation
• syncretism
• distance-decay

You see the coordinates 5 E longitude, 10 N latitude. You do not need to look at a map in order to deduce that this location is

• near both the equator and the prime meridian.
• near the equator but quite far from the prime meridian.
• near the International Date Line and the prime meridian.
• near both the equator and the International Date Line.

Site identifies a place by its

• nominal location
• unique physical characteristics
• location relative to other objects and places
• mathematical location on Earth's surface.

If the scale of a map is 1:100,000, then 1 centimeter on the map represents ________ on Earth's surface.

• 1 kilometer
• 10 kilometers
• 1,000 kilometers
• 100,000 kilometers

A geographer's spatial analysis would entail

• examining relationships and patterns across the physical distance between two objects.
• confining the analysis to political boundaries.
•  restrictive examination of government control of territory.
•  examining only physical characteristics of the globe.

The difference in time it took for Columbus to cross the Atlantic and John Glenn to cross the Atlantic is an example of

• establishing longitude as part of the grid.
• better time measurement
• space-time compression
• establishing a prime meridian

The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is

• geographic assosciation
• spatial analysis
• spatial association
  
• geographic analysis