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AP HG U1

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which map projection provides the most realistic depiction of the globe? 
a)
Mercator
b)
Robinson 
c)
Miller 
d)
Gall-Peters
2.
The Red lines are showing what? 
a)
Longitude
b)
Latitude
c)
Prime Meridians
d)
Tropics
3.
What word best connects to "The science of making maps"? 
a)
Geography
b)
Cartography
c)
Projectionist
d)
Diagramist
4.
What type of map is this? 
a)
Cloropleth
b)
Dot Distribution
c)
Cartogram
d)
Physical
5.
What technology is being shown in the picture? 
a)
GIS
b)
GPS
c)
CRI
d)
FAQ
6.
What type of map is being shown? 
a)
Political
b)
Mental Map
c)
Distrotion
d)
Cartogram
7.

Roughly where is the international dateline?

a)

West of Ireland

b)

Through The Middle of the Pacific Ocean

c)

East of Japan

d)

Just off the Coast of California

8.
The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called: 
a)
A.  referenced location 
b)
A.  central location
c)
A.  relative location
d)
A.  absolute location 
9.
The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called: 
a)
absolute location
b)
relative location
c)
site
d)
situation
10.
Scale is…                                     
a)
the system used by geographers to transfer locations  from a globe to a map
b)
the extent of spread of a phenomenon over a given area
c)
 the difference in elevation between two points in an area
d)
 the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape
11.
The process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural: 
a)
diffusion
b)
simultaion
c)
adaptation
d)
movement
12.
The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as: 
a)
GPS
b)
GIS
c)
ENSO
d)
OPEC
13.
Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of 
a)
 Expansion and hierarchical
b)
Contagious and stimulus
c)
 Expansion and relocation
d)
 Migrant and hierarchical
14.
The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?
a)
Cultural Landscape
b)
Place
c)
Location
d)
Human Environment Interaction
15.
What is it called when you take a 3D image and put it onto a 2D surface?
a)
Cartogram
b)
Projection
c)
Globe
d)
Instagram
16.
Asking the question "why is something found in a particular place", is using which theme of geography?
a)
Place
b)
Movement
c)
Human Environment Interaction
d)
Location
17.
Which type of location does not change?
a)
Absolute
b)
Relative
c)
Positive
d)
Negative
18.
If you have not been to a place, but have developed negative feelings about it based off of what you heard in the news or from a friend, you would be using:
a)
Sense of place
b)
Perceptions of place
c)
Movement
d)
Human Environment Interaction
19.
Geographers group like things together into regions in order to make them easier to study.  What type of region would a corn field be?
a)
Perceptual
b)
Formal
c)
Functional
d)
Vernacular
20.
Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?
a)
Formal
b)
Perceptual
c)
Functional
d)
Uniform
21.
The imprint that humans leave, such as buildings, roads, cemeteries, etc. are all considered to be part of the:
a)
Location
b)
Region
c)
Cultural Landscape
d)
Move
22.
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?
a)
Formal
b)
Functional
c)
Perceptual
d)
Uniform
23.
Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture?
a)
Vernacular
b)
Formal
c)
Folk
d)
Functional
24.
The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ____.
a)
acculturation
b)
innovation
c)
cultural hearth
d)
diffusion
25.
Which of the following divides Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
a)
Prime Meridian
b)
Hemisphere Line
c)
Equator
d)
Tropic of Capricorn
26.
Which type of map would show the boundaries of countries?
a)
vegetation map
b)
political map
c)
land-use map
d)
elevation map
27.
Places that share similar characteristics are called 
a)
human systems
b)
environments
c)
regions
d)
physical systems
28.
What is remote sensing?
a)
analyzing different types of data
b)
tracking changes on Earth's surface
c)
using software to combine data
d)
getting information from far away
29.
Which of the following is not a use of GPS?
a)
tracking airplanes
b)
determine when a volcano will erupt
c)
help farmers in their fields
d)
provide driving directions to a destination
30.
Which of the following is not a use of GPS?
a)
tracking airplanes
b)
determine when a volcano will erupt
c)
help farmers in their fields
d)
provide driving directions to a destination
31.
Which of the following shows places on the Earth's surface the most accurately?
a)
thematic maps
b)
globes
c)
general-purpose maps
d)
physical maps
32.
Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England, and has a value of 0 degrees
a)
latitude
b)
longitude
c)
relief
d)
scale
33.
map that shows specialized information, such as a land-use map, or any other physical or human feature
a)
thematic map
b)
general-purpose map
c)
climate map
d)
topographic map
34.
What are the physical and human features of a location?
a)
perception
b)
place
c)
perspective
d)
landscapes
35.
What are the physical and human features of a location?
a)
perception
b)
place
c)
perspective
d)
landscapes
36.
What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees?
a)
longitude
b)
latitude
c)
grid
d)
equator
37.
Environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment.
a)
Environmental Determinism
b)
Environmental Possibilism
c)
Cultural Determinism
d)
Cultural Environmentalism
38.
The physical environment causes social and cultural development.
a)
Cultural Environmentalism
b)
Environmental Possibilism
c)
Environmental Determinism
d)
Cultural Possibilism
39.
Culture is spread by...
a)
Movement of people
b)
TV and Internet
c)
War and conquest
d)
All are correct
40.
a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
a)
Location
b)
Place
c)
Region
d)
formal Region
41.
defined formally by government or other structures, such as cities, states, and mountain ranges
a)
Location
b)
Place
c)
region
d)
formal region
42.
made up of a central place and surrounding areas affected by it. Often, this is a metropolitan area that consists of a major city and lots of smaller towns or cities that surround it.
a)
functional region
b)
perceptual region
c)
cultural landscape
d)
free enterprise
43.
This image demonstrates
a)
Regions
b)
Stimulus Diffusion
c)
Globalization
d)
None of the above
44.
The idea that one's environment is responsible for who people are and how they live
a)
Positivism
b)
'Merica
c)
Possibilism
d)
Environmental Determinism
45.
The concept of distance decay is best described in which scenario?
a)
When fewer people read the Review Journal newspaper the farther you are away from Las Vegas.
b)
People throughout a region generally speaking German.
c)
When many people move to another area using an ocean vessel.
d)
The diffusion of a disease along a highway corridor.
46.
The change in size, shape, direction, or distance of something once a globe is converted to a map. 
a)
Cartography
b)
map
c)
distortion
d)
scale
47.

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is

a)

remote sensing

b)

GIS

c)

USFL

d)

IPMPCW

48.

The frequency an object appears in a given area is its

a)

concentration

b)

pattern

c)

density

d)

diffusion

49.

Lines of ________ are drawn as east and west circles on the globe and yet they measure distances north and south of the ________.

a)

longitude, Prime Meridian

b)

longitude, equator

c)

latitude, Prime Meridian

d)

latitude, equator

50.

Which of the following is not a formal culture region?

a)

The distribution network for USA Today newspaper

b)

A wheat-growing county in Kansas

c)

A Haitian neighborhood in Miami, Florida

d)

The part of Italy called “Lombardy”

e)

A French-language region in Canada

51.

That the physical environment causes social development is the core concept of

a)

Cultural relativism

b)

Possibilism

c)

Cultural ecology

d)

Environmental determinism

52.

The division of the United States into nine regions by the Census Bureau is an example of a…

a)

vernacular region

b)

formal region

c)

functional region

53.

The visible imprint that humans leave on a landscape:

a)

natural landscape

b)

cultural landscape

54.

Maps in our minds of places that we have been to and places we have only heard of:

a)

reference maps

b)

thematic maps

c)

mental maps

d)

activity spaces

55.

Geotechnology used to map and analyze spatial data:

a)

Global Positioning System (GPS)

b)

Geographic Information System (GIS)

c)

remote sensing

56.

The further the time and distance from the hearth, the less likely an innovation is to be adopted:

a)

time-distance decay

b)

time-space compression

57.

The 3Ws are:

a)

Where is it?

b)

Why is it there?

c)

What difference does it make?

d)

When is it there?

e)

How did it come to be?

58.

GPS and GIS are examples of contemporary mapping tools that rely on ______ technology.

a)

remote sensing/satellite

b)

computer

c)

smart phone/satellite

d)

International Space Station

59.
Applying the Five Themes, a geographer would know this San Antonio Via bus route map depicts a  _____ region.
a)
formal/uniform
b)
functional/nodal
c)
perceptual/vernacular
60.
Applying the Five Themes, a geographer would identify this image as a  _____ region; these countries have established, widely-agreed on borders .
a)
formal/uniform
b)
functional/nodal
c)
perceptual/vernacular

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