AP Human Geography Semester 1 Final

An area where everyone shares 1 or more distinctive characteristics (Texas and their set of laws)

• Formal Region

• Functional Region

• Vernacular Region

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

• GPS
• GIS
• ENSO
• OPEC

The imprint that humans leave, such as buildings, roads, cemeteries, etc. are all considered to be part of the:

• Location
• Region
• Cultural Landscape
• Move

Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture?

• Vernacular
• Formal
• Folk
• Functional

Cell phones have contributed to

• possibilism

• networks

• time-space compression

• regionalism

• density

Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as

• environmental determinism

• environmental possibilism

• cartography

• animism

• demographics

The physical environment causes social and cultural development.

• Cultural Environmentalism
• Environmental Possibilism
• Environmental Determinism
• Cultural Possibilism

All maps have

• distortion
• graduated circles.
• bar scale.
• multiple colors