AP Human Geography

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.

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

What type of map is this?

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

Distance Decay

• a metaphor that explains that effort must be used to overcome distance

• a physical material constituting part of Earth that people need and value

• the idea that the world feels smaller than it used to because of increased technology in transportation and communication

• the idea that the interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases

Time-space Compression

• a metaphor that explains that effort must be used to overcome distance

• a physical material constituting part of Earth that people need and value

• the idea that the world feels smaller than it used to because of increased technology in transportation and communication

• the idea that the interaction between two places declines as the distance between them increases

Which of the following scales of analysis would provide demographic data that could be used to compare one urban neighborhood to other urban neighborhoods across a country?

• State or province

• Metropolitan area or urban region

• County or parish (in Quebec and Louisiana)

• City or municipality

• Census tract or enumeration area