AP Human Geography Unit 1

What is the technique that collect information from the earth from a distance?

• Geographic Information Systems

• Global Positioning Systems

• Remote Sensing

• Ethnography

• Demography

Which map would have the smallest scale?

• Orlando

• Orange County

• Florida

• United States

• World

What does a Mercator projection map show?

• standard map for navigation

• straight segment of course

• cylindrical

• Greenland & Antarctica appear much larger

• All of the above

Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as

• environmental determinism

• possibilism

• cartography

• animism

• demographics

A hiker would use

• an isoline map

• a choropleth map

• a graduated symbol map

• a small scale map

• a political map

Cell phones have contributed to

• possibilism

• networks

• time-space compression

• regionalism

• density