Kramlich 1st Semester AP Human Geography

What elements of study of human and physical geography have in common?

• They are taught or studied within the same department in major universities, but only rarely.

• They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.

• The are dedicated primarily to managing national part systems.

• They are focused primarily on managing the world's growing human population.

• They represent a network of academic professionals dedicated primarily to studying coal mining's effect on ;physical and human systems.

Scale is

• the system used by geographers to transfer locations from a globe to a map.

• the 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 ratio of the largest to smallest areas on a map.

1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?

• a bar line

• a metric scale

• a graphic scale

• a written scale

• a ratio or fraction

A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is a (n)

• distribution

• interruption

• rendition

• scale

• projection

The art and science of making maps is

• cardemography.

• cartography.

• geomorphology.

• topography

• geography