AP HUG Exam Practice

In descriptions of interaction between people and the environment, the term “environmental determinism” implies that

• the physical environment exclusively shapes humans and their actions 

• humans by their actions and technologies alter the physical environment to suit their needs

• determination of environmental limitations is a primary task of geographers

• capitalist economies do not contribute to global environmental degradation 

• there exists no interacting relationship between people and their surrounding physical environment

Which of the following concepts could best be explained by the theory of possibilism?

• Regional differences between the internal structures of cities

• Changes in population growth rates over time

• Limitations on agricultural crops based on climate

• Political patterns seen in election maps

• Modification of landscapes by human cultures

Which of the following statements about the Robinson projection is correct?

• It is more useful for long-distance navigation than the Mercator projection.

• It is better for making topographical maps than the Mercator projection.

• It is more accurate than the Mercator projection in showing the sizes of countries in higher latitudes.

• It is more useful for showing the distribution of human populations than the Mercator projection.

• It is better for estimating territorial waters in lower latitudes than the Mercator projection.

Every map projection has some degree of distortion because

• a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion

• parallels and meridians never cross at right angles on a globe

• the grid system is two-dimensional, while the real world is three-dimensional

• Earth is not a perfect sphere

• latitude lines are shorter than meridian lines

Which of the following describes the perspective of environmental determinism?

• A twentieth-century idea that human cultures are imprinted on the landscape in different forms of land use and architecture

• A contemporary ecological view that human activity is affecting the global environment toward a negative outcome

• A former scientific viewpoint stating that factors within the physical geography of a region shape the local population’s culture and behaviors

• A theory that humans hold the ability to modify Earth’s physical geography to meet the resource needs of a society

• A belief system based on an ideology that humans have dominion over Earth and its natural resources

Which of the following terms best describes regions that make up the political geographic divisions within a country?

• Cultural

• Perceptual

• Vernacular

• Physical

• Formal

A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it

• has a focal point or node

• is one that people believe exists

• has a selected feature or internal uniformity

• does not contain gradations such as core, domain, and sphere

• applies only to linguistic and religion regions

Which of the following scales is represented in the map shown?

• Local, showing the towns and township areas in a county

• Regional, showing the states or provinces in one part of a country

• State or province, showing the counties or parishes

• Neighborhood, showing the block along street boundaries

• Block, showing the property lines and names of owners

If I were giving you directions from new albany to target giving directions such as turn left at the rallys and when you get to the second streetlight turn right. Which of the following best describes the type of information provided in the directions?

• Absolute location

• Relative location

• Cultural landscape

• Geographic information systems

• Cartographic principles

The "why of where" refers to

• geography's emphasis on landscape features

• spatial patterns on the landscape

• a definition of geography that is simply locational

• the idea that the explanation of a spatial pattern is crucial

• the depiction of a region's physical features