AP Exam Review: Unit 1 (Thinking Geographically)

39.9042° N, 116.4074° E is Beijing's

• Referenced location

• Central location

• Relative location

• Absolute location

• Formal location

Egypt's location, as describes as "North of Sudan" is its

• absolute location

• relative location

• site

• situation

• perceptual location

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 exact representation of the earth on a globe

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

• landscape

New York's climate, a humid subtropical climate, with cold winters and hot, moist summers, can be classified as part of its __________.

• site

• situation

• relative location

• absolute location

• sense of place

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

• acculturation
• innovation
• cultural hearth
• diffusion

Places that share similar characteristics are called 

• human systems
• environments
• regions
• physical systems

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

• thematic maps

• globes

• general-purpose maps

• physical maps

• plat maps

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

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Grid

• Equator

• Perpendicularity

Human conquering the dry arid heat of Arizona with an air conditioning unit is an example of

• environmental determinism

• possibilism

• cultural determinism

• cultural environmentalism

• cultural ecology