AP Human Geography Models

Popular culture often expands through

• migration or relocation diffusion

• the building of roads and internet technologies

• hierarchical diffusion

• adoption of electricity

Quick and widespread diffusion like a disease is known as

• Stimulus diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusoin

• Relocation diffusion

• Contagious diffusion

The combination of a place's cultural, economic, and physical features is known as its

• formal region

• cultural landscape

• uniform landscape

• place definition

Actions involving the whole world and increasing connections between people, corporations, and/or organizations is BEST known as

• unilaterialism

• globalization

• multiculturalism

• milieu

Environmental Determinism

• the flow of goods, people, or information among places, in response to localized supply and demand

• a region based around a node or focal point - terrestrial radio broadcasts are an example of this

• useful for gathering SOME types of information. It can show you things like physical features, locations of urban areas, refugee camps, traffic, military targets, agriculture, etc.

• the belief that a physical environment is THE reason that some societies are strong while others are weaker

What is the name of this class?

• AP World Geography

• AP Human Geography

• AP Environmental Science

• World Geography

You being able to watch and learn on YouTube is an example of what spatial concept?

• Distance decay

• Tobler’s first law of geography

• Time-space compression

• Scale of inquiry

• Clustering of information

Answer explanation

Time-space compression happens due to the increased access to technology allowing people to interact with places and people further away with ease. (Reduces distance decay)

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

• absolute location

• relative location

• site

• situation

Identify the map above and identify which of the following descriptions most accurately describes the map.

• Mercator: The shape and size of land masses are distorted, but direction is accurate

• Robinson: Distortion is only happening with the size of the land masses, shape and direction are accurate

• Mercator: Land mass size is accurate due to distortion being spread across all aspects of the map

• Goode Homolosine: Does not use cardinal directions, minimizes distortion but is confusing to read

• Robinson: Distortion is evenly spread out across shape, size, and direction making it less noticeable

Answer explanation

The Mercator map was used for marine navigation and shows direction actually, but distorts the size/shape of land masses.

Which of the following would geographers not be interested in observing when looking at a local place?

• The physical terrain

• The religious breakdown of citizens

• The different languages that are spoken

• The demographic breakdown of the entire country

• The amount of rivers and lakes in the area

Answer explanation

The question was asking for a local scale, but this answer is talking about a national scale