AP HG Unit 1 Quiz Lusk

What region is number 1?

• North America

• Central America

• Europe

• Russian Federation

• Asia

What region is number 3?

• Antarctica

• Russian Federation

• North America

• South America

• Africa

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

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

The change in size, shape, direction, or distance of something once a globe is converted to a map. 

• Cartography
• map
• distortion
• scale

Which of the following maps would have the largest scale?

• world

• continent

• country

• city

Environmental determinism is the belief that

• the physical environment shapes humans and their actions.

• humans alter the physical environment to suit their needs

• there is no relationship between people & environment

• the environment limits geographers

• capitalist economies contribute to global warming

Human geography is

• the study of cartography

• the study of spacial organization

• the study of the natural environment

• the study of the human imprint on natural landscapes

• the study of centralized patterns

A political map divides places into

• formal regions

• functional regions

• perceptual regions

• cultural regions

• economic regions

This compares spatial date by layering maps

• remote sensing

• geographic information systems

• generalized mapping

• friction of time

• global positioning systems