Ap Human Geography Unit 1

An area people believe exist as part of their culutral idenity and their informal sense of place

answer choices

• Formal Region

• Functional Region

• Vernacular Region

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

• Formal Region

• Functional Region

• Vernacular Region

An area organized around a node or focal point with a strong charateristic in the center

• Formal Region

• Functional Region

• Vernacular Region

Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as

• environmental determinism

• possibilism

• cartography

• animism

• demographics

The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called: 

• absolute location
• relative location
• site
• situation

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 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

Which type of location does not change?

• Absolute
• Relative
• Positive
• Negative

Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football.  He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

• Formal
• Functional
• Perceptual
• Uniform