Unit 1 APHG Review

The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:

• referenced location

• central location

• relative location

• 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 size of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

The physical qualities a place (such as landforms, climate, etc.) is referred to as the

• site

• situation

• relative location

• absolute location

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

Answer explanation

The store is the NODE, and the region is defined by interactions with the node (shoppers).

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

• acculturation
• innovation
• cultural hearth
• diffusion

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 limit, 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

The concept of distance decay is best described in which scenario?

• The further you are from Fort Myers, the fewer people read the News Press.

• People throughout a region generally speaking German.

• When many people move to another area using an ocean vessel.

• The diffusion of a disease along a highway corridor.