AP human geography Final Review Guide

What are the types of location geographers use as reference points

• absolute

• relative

• neither

Why are maps useful to geographers?

• maps are easier to make

• maps can show some information better than written text

• none of the options shown

• all of the above

What is meant by the term relative location?

• location of a place in relation to other places

• location of a place using longitude and latitude

• location seen up above from satellites

• none of the options shown

What name is given to the study of the interrelationships between people and their physical environment?

• human and the environment

• environmental interaction

• Human environment interaction

• none of these shown

Why do geographers use a grid system?

• Identify the precise location of any place on earth

• none of these shown

• to locate the relative location of something

• its easier

What do functional regions focus on?

• boundaries

• how people view that region

• a central point and surrounding territory linked to it

• none of these options shown

All the following are examples of diffusion EXCEPT

• Prohibiting Native Americans from teaching their tribal language

• The spread of Christianity from Europe to the Americas

• The introduction of horses to the Americas by the Spanish

• Bringing movies made by the U.S. to a worldwide audience

The Columbian Exchange involved plants, animals, and the transmission of

• gold

• infectious disease

• all the above

• horses

In Central America, ______ agriculture has destroyed huge swaths of rain forest.

• burn

• slash and burn

• slash

• none of options shown

In subsistence farming, a farmer . . .

• grows crops

• grows crops primarily to feed his or her family, selling any small surplus

• grows crops to feed family

• none of these answers