ap exam study guide

what is the study of people and places

• Human Geography

• Social Difference

• Bio latitude

• Prime Meridian

Human Geography allows us to do this

• Organize space and society, interactions with other places; across places too, make sense of ourselves in our (localities, regions and the world), and finally how we make places

• Gives us space to live, details on our land, and gives us an insight of land in the future

• Make places, organize space, allow people to make maps of the world, allows us to have a knew understanding of our earth

• Tells us how old earth is, find out how things were first discovered, the layout of countries on a map, and allows us to make places

What is a reference map?

• maps that can be used to find the most popular fruit in the country

• maps that shows us the density of that country

• maps used to show land forms and/or places.

• Maps that bow down to people

What is a physical map?

• A map that shows us where people plant there crops

• A map showing the oceans all throughout the country

• Maps depicting the population of the country

• a reference map that shows identifiable natural land marks such as mountains, rivers, oceans, elevation

What is a political map?

• reference map that shows political boundaries e.g. countries, cities, capitals, etc.

• A map that shows the way things are run by the government

• A map that list of all the laws of a country

• A map that shows the conflict with the neighboring countries

what is a thematic map?

• Maps giving us detailed information about the theme in a book

• maps used to display specific types of information (theme) pertaining to an area

• A map that shows us the theme of a story

• Maps being used to depict the theme in a storybook

What is this type of thematic map? A map that shows statistical data by transforming space,e.g, population?

• A scale map

• A display key

• A cartogram

• A scaled value

What is this other type of thematic map? Uses shading or coloring to show statistical data, e.g population

• Population density

• political map

• choropleth map

• dot density map

what is this type of thematic map? Uses dots to indicate a feature or occurrence, e.g population

• physical map

• Population density

• biology map

• dot density map

what is this type of thematic map? Indicates relative magnitude of some value for a geographic region in which the symbol varies in proportion to data, e.g population

• graduated symbol map

• values indicating map

• alternating image map

• Visual display map