AP Human Geography UNIT #1 Vocabulary

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

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 usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of 

•  Expansion and hierarchical
• Contagious and stimulus
•  Expansion and relocation
•  Migrant and hierarchical

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

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

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

The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as: 

• GPS
• GIS
• ENSO
• OPEC

Which of the following shows places on the Earth's surface the most accurately?

• thematic maps
• globes
• general-purpose maps
• physical maps

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

• Cultural Landscape
• Place
• Location
• Human Environment Interaction