AP HuG Chapter 1 Test

You are given coordinates 128˚ E longitude, 45˚ latitude. This is an example of a(n)

• absolute location

• toponym

• situation on the grid system

• relative location

• site-situation intersectional

Which of the following statements about the map projections below is false?

• Robinson more accurately depicts land mass.

• Mercator more accurately depicts shapes of continents.

• Both Robinson and Mercator have distortion.

• Robinson more accurately depicts both shapes and land mass.

• Mercator is preferable for the purpose of navigation.

Which statement is most accurate?

• Every meridian is actually a circle rather than a curved line.

• Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end.

• Every parallel begins and ends at the poles.

• Every parallel is the same length.

• Every meridian is distorted by magnetic declination.

Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans is known as a

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• preserved resource

• threat to sustainability

• boon to sustainability

Globalization of the economy has

• leveled economic differences between places

• heightened economic differences between places

• decreased investment in less developed countries

• decreased resource use in more developed countries

• decreased regional specialization of production

The map shown above best fits which of the following map types?

• choropleth

• cartogram

• proportional symbol

• dot symbol

• isoline

Distortion is especially severe and apparent on

• globes

• small-scale maps

• large-scale maps

• topographic maps

• all maps

The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments is

• climatology

• environmental determinism

• possibilism

• spatial association

• cultural relativism

Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion?

• contagious and eponymous

• hierarchical and formal

• economic and relocation

• contagious and hierarchical

• relocation and stimulus

Global Position Systems reference ____________ location.

• relative

• situational

• absolute

• toponymic

• exact