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AP Human Geography Unit 1

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
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 
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
The physical qualities of the original location for a city is referred to as the
a)
site
b)
situation
c)
relative location
d)
absolute location
6.
The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as: 
a)
GPS
b)
GIS
c)
ENSO
d)
OPEC
7.
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
8.
The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?
a)
Cultural Landscape
b)
Place
c)
Location
d)
Human Environment Interaction
9.
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
10.
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
11.
Which type of location does not change?
a)
Absolute
b)
Relative
c)
Positive
d)
Negative
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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
15.
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
16.
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
17.
The physical environment causes social and cultural development.
a)
Cultural Environmentalism
b)
Environmental Possibilism
c)
Environmental Determinism
d)
Cultural Possibilism
18.
Culture is spread by...
a)
Movement of people
b)
TV and Internet
c)
War and conquest
d)
All are correct
19.

The father of Chinese cartography who made a detailed map of China

a)

Pei Xiu

b)

Muhammed al-Idrisi

c)

Martin Waldseemuller

d)

Eratosthenes

e)

Abraham Ortellus

20.

The first to use the term "geography"

a)

Pei Xiu

b)

Muhammed al-Idrisi

c)

Martin Waldseemuller

d)

Eratosthenes

e)

Abraham Ortellus

21.

Why is the mercator map projection useful.

a)

The distortion is minimized

b)

Directions is constent across the map

c)

Distances are correctly protrayed

d)

Area of the land masses is shown accurately.

22.

By the time the last great cholera pandemic began in 1865, people knew to take precautions against ______ and ended the great wave of cholera.

a)

traveling groups

b)

contaminated water

c)

eating canned food

d)

improper garbage disposal

23.

Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact drainage of part of the Florida, Everglades?

a)

Movement

b)

Location

c)

Place

d)

Human Environment Interaction

24.

The lack of penetration of alcoholic beverages in Islamic regions illustrates the effect of _____ on cultural diffusion.

a)

Cultural Barrier

b)

Cultural taste

c)

Poor Transport system

d)

Psychological Barriers

25.

The diffusion of the idea of the hamburger to India but with vegetable patty instead of beef is an example of

a)

Cultural Barrier

b)

Cultural mimicry

c)

Independent invetion

d)

Stimulus diffusion

26.

Which form of diffusion cannot be transmitted by media (television, internet, radio)?

a)

Relocation Diffusion

b)

Stimulus Diffusion

c)

Contagious Diffusion

d)

Hierarchical diffusion

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