AP Human Geography UNIT #1 Review

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

• Cultural Landscape
• Place
• Location
• Human Environment Interaction

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

• Cartogram
• Projection
• Globe
• Instagram

The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ____.

• acculturation
• innovation
• cultural hearth
• diffusion

Which of the following divides Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

• Prime Meridian
• Hemisphere Line
• Equator
• Tropic of Capricorn

Which type of map would show the boundaries of countries?

• vegetation map
• political map
• land-use map
• elevation map

What is the difference between absolute and relative location?

• Absolute location is the exact location of something.
• Absolute cannot be identified using lines of latitude or longitude.
• Absolute describes where something is compared to another place.
• Absolute location describes the characteristics of a place.

Places that share similar characteristics are called 

• human systems
• environments
• regions
• physical systems

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

• longitude
• latitude
• grid
• equator

Environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment.

• Environmental Determinism
• Environmental Possibilism
• Cultural Determinism
• Cultural Environmentalism

The physical environment causes social and cultural development.

• Cultural Environmentalism
• Environmental Possibilism
• Environmental Determinism
• Cultural Possibilism