APHG FRQ

What is spatial perspective?

• Changes across space

• How different cultures spread

• The spreading of disease

• The continuity amongst the world

Which of the following do geographers use to compare a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment by combining layers of spatial data, and creating maps in which patterns and processes are superimposed?

• GPS

• GIS

• Scale

• Mental Maps

The choices that a society makes depend on what its members need and on what technology is available to them this is called...

• environmental determinism

• Possibilism 

• political ecology

• cultural ecology

A geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions is called...

• Distance Decay

• Spatial Analysis

• Time space compression

• Possibilism

Which of the following projections have all parallels of latitude the same length as the equator and shows distortion in the poles.

• Robinson

• Mercator

• Galls Peters

• Waterman Butterfly

The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level is which of the following?

• Possibilism

• Environmental Determinism

• Sustainability

• Mercator and Galls Peters Projections

Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football. He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

• Formal

• Functional

• Vernacular

• Uniform

Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization (ex. local, regional, global)

• Mental Maps

• Scale

• GPS

• Regions

Stage 5 demographics transition would be characterized by ...

• Low CBR and increasing CDR, resulting in negative NIR

• A high CDR and a High CBR resulting in an unchanging NIR

• A low CBR and a low CDR resulting in an unchanging NIR

• A high TFR and an high CDR resulting in a negative NIR

• A low TFR and a Low CBR resulting in a positive NIR

Which region has experienced a significant decline in the crude birth rate between 1990 and 2015 due to education dn health - care programs for women

• Mexico and Central America

• Australia and Oceania

• Southwest Asia

• Central Africa

• Eastern Europe