Unit 1 AP geography review

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

• A.  referenced location 
• A.  central location
• A.  relative location
• A.  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 length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

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

The physical qualities of the original location for a city is referred to as the

• site
• situation
• relative location
• absolute location

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

• GPS
• GIS
• ENSO
• OPEC

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

• Cartogram
• Projection
• Globe
• Instagram

Asking the question "why is something found in a particular place", is using which theme of geography?

• Place
• Movement
• Human Environment Interaction
• Location

Which type of location does not change?

• Absolute
• Relative
• Positive
• Negative

If you have not been to a place, but have developed negative feelings about it based off of what you heard in the news or from a friend, you would be using:

• Sense of place
• Perceptions of place
• Movement
• Human Environment Interaction