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WorksheetsAP HUG Unit 1 Questions
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 14mins
Human-induced environmental change is often referred to as...
Anthropromorphic
Antrhopocentric
Anthropogenic
Unsustainable
Environmental determinism
Conserving resources to ensure enough for future generations is called...
Subsistence Agriculture
Sustainability
Cultural Ecology
Environmental Determinism
The Organic Movement
____________ argued that cultural landscapes should form the basic unit of geographic inquiry.
Ptolemy
George Perkins Marsh
Erastothenes
Carl Sauer
W.D. Pattison
A thematic layer is...
A method used in cartography to produce mathematically accurate map projections.
A map portraying a particular feature that is used in a GIS.
Used in GPS systems to provide more accurate navigational information.
A map used by early explorers to find particular resources in new regions of the Earth.
Used as a method to analyze thematic regions.
__________ refers to concepts that are universally applicable.
Nomothetic
Qualitative
Idiographic
Idiocentric
Quantitative
A perceptual region's boundaries are...
Determined by a set of uniform physical or cultural characteristics across a particular area.
Drawn around the functions that occur between a particular place and the surrounding area.
Determined by the portion of a particular area that has been modified by human activities.
Fuzzy because they allow for individual interpretation.
Designated by the inclusion of a particular cultural characteristic.
If a geographer performs a study on people's perceptions of the Deep South using interviews as the primary data source, the geographer's method is...
Quantitative
Systematic
Anthropogenic
Qualitative
Idiographic
Which of the following is true concerning regions?
They are strict functional units.
They are usually defined by a standard mathematical formula.
They are figments of the imagination.
They are conceptual units.
They all have well-defined boundaries.
Geographic scale refers to...
The ratio between distance on a map and distance on Earth's surface.
A conceptual hierarchy of spaces.
A notion of place based on an individual's perception of space.
The many ways that people define regions.
The level of aggregation at which geographers investigate a particular process.
Seattle is located on Puget Sound in northwestern Washington. It has a large university, a famous downtown market, and a moist, marine climate. Seattle's primary economic activities include ship and aircraft construction and high-technology enterprises. This information gives us details about Seattle's...
Situation
Cognitive Image
Site
Landscape
Relative Distance
Lines of longitude...
never meet.
begin at the equator.
are referred to as parallels.
intersect at the poles.
contain the two tropics.
Even though some cities are far apart in terms of absolute distance, they are actually quite connected economically and socially. This is representative of...
Topographic Space
Cognitive Space
Topological Space
Relative Location
Situation
Which of the following is true about space-time convergence?
Places seem to all look the same.
Places seem to be getting closer together.
Places are increasingly concentrated on maintaining their histories.
Places are making more of an effort to converge activities to save time.
Places are implementing more rapid forms of transportation.
Which of the following is NOT a measure of relative distance?
2,339 centimeters
35 seconds
Two dollars and fifty cents
216 footsteps
15 minutes
Rap music first appeared in New York in the 1970's. Later it spread to large cities with vibrant African American populations - such as Los Angeles - without being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas in between. This type of spatial diffusion is called...
Relocation Potential
Hierarchical Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
Cascade Diffusion
Stores and restaurants in Oregon that find it cheaper to buy fresh vegetables grown in California than to buy those grown in Florida are taking advantage of...
Expansion Diffusion
Distance Decay
Economies of Scale
Intervening Opportunities
Retail Gravitation
Which of the following is NOT a good example of a barrier to spatial diffusion?
A mountain range.
A different language.
A different dietary preference.
A highway system.
A strict religious system.
The ratio between distance on a map and distance on Earth's surface is called the...
Projection
Resolution
Scale
Azimuth
Aggregation
Cartography is the art and science of...
Demographics
Mapmaking
Spatial Orientation
Cognitive Imagery
Making Visualizations
Map projections attempt to correct for errors in...
Transferability
Area, distance, scale, and proportion
Area, distance, shape, and proportion.
Distance, proximity, and topology
Distance, shape, and lines of latitude and longitude.
The Mercator projections preserve...
Direction
Area
Shape
Scale
Distance
Topographic maps use which of the following symbols to convey change over space?
Tonal shadings
Isolines
Proportional Symbols
Location Charts
Cartograms
Which of the following map projections preserves the correct shape of Earth's landmasses?
Fuller's Projection
Mercator
Robinson
Mollewide
Smithsonian
The size of a map's smallest discernable unit is its...
Scale
Density
Region
Resolution
Projection
