AP Human Geo Review -Homework 4/29

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

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 process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural: 

• diffusion
• simultaion
• adaptation
• movement

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

• site
• situation
• relative location
• absolute location

Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football.  He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

• Formal
• Functional
• Perceptual
• Uniform

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

• Cartogram
• Projection
• Globe
• Instagram

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

Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England, and has a value of 0 degrees

• latitude
• longitude
• relief
• scale

What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees?

• longitude
• latitude
• grid
• equator